The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey
SKU: SONG1101873418
ISBN : 9781101873410
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The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK)William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book.-Joy WilliamsIn the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places.One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in eight of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.
Specification of The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey
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Author | Atkins, William |
Binding | paperback |
Language | english |
Edition | Reprint |
ISBN-10 | 1101873418 |
ISBN-13 | 9781101873410 |
Publication Year | 2019-06-11T00:00:01Z |
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