Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert

by Jeffrey Tayler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618492224
• ISBN13: 9780618492220
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

great!

tayler is a keen observer of humankind, erudite, articulate, fair-minded. i stumbled on this book and now look forward to reading everything he's written.