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Title: Grains of sand
Description: Vintage 2001 Paperback, 446pp. "Driven by a desire to explore the most remote, barren yet romantic places on earth, martin Buckley set off on a two-year journey through the world's deserts. In the Sahara he was threatened with murder. In the Gobi, he highjacked a cycle-rickshaw. Dehydrating in the Sonora, he hallucinated fruit cocktails. Encountering the desert at its most extreme, he learned how to find water - and how to spit tobacco into a camel's nostril.Images of the desert exert a powerful grip on the human imagination. Deserts feel familiary yet mysterious. The truth is that they are even stranger than we imagine.GRAINS OF SAND is a passionate, profound and frequently funny evocation of the world's deserts and the people who live in them. ", (ISBN: 9780099277354). Good.

Keywords: Travel9780099277354 9780099277354

Price: NZD 14.50 = appr. US$ 9.37 Seller: Book Haven
- Book number: 1371881

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