Non-Fiction Review: Glory in a Camel's Eye
Two covers, because the image of the one I read--on the left--is so small. Plus, I think the other cover is nicer :) Title: Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert Author: Jeffrey Tayler Publisher: Houghton Mifflen Harcourt, 2003. 245 pages. Source: Library Publisher's Summary: Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as an emerging master of travel writing, Tayler penetrates one of the most forbidding regions on Earth. Journeying along routes little altered since the Middle Ages, he uses his linguistic and observational gifts to illuminate a venerable, enigmatic culture of nomads and mystics. Though no stranger to privation (having journeyed across Siberia and up the Congo for his earlier books), Tayler is unprepared for the physical challenges that await him in a Sahara dessicated by eight years of unprecedented drought. He travels across a landscape of nightmares - charred earth, blinding sky, choking g...