Grains Of Sand - Softcover

Buckley, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099277352 ISBN 13: 9780099277354

Publisher: Random House Pod, 2001

Synopsis

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 hijacked 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, from Lawrence of Arabia to Star Wars. Deserts feel familiar, 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; an extraordinary global adventure, and a personal voyage of discovery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Pod
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099277352
• ISBN 13: 9780099277354
• Binding: Paperback