Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618492220)

Marvelously entertaining and frequently harrowing, Glory in a Camel's Eye recounts the American travel writer Jeffrey Tayler's dangerous three-month journey across the Moroccan Sahara in the company of Arab nomads.
Glory in a Camel's Eye gives us an intimate, often surprising portrait of Saharan Africa: the cultural conflicts between native Berbers and Arabs, the clashes between devout desert-dwelling nomads and their city-dwelling counterparts. Fluent in Arabic, Tayler assembles an image of modern life very much at odds with our Western assumptions. He observes and reports "with eloquence and an eye for the improbable" (Outside).

Author: Jeffrey Tayler
ISBN-10: 0618492224
ISBN-13: 9780618492220
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2005
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.56w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 05/01/2005 pg. 46