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Martin Buckley has lived in France, Italy, Turkey and India and has worked as a journalist in over forty countries. For ten years he was a producer with Radio 4 and is still a regular contributor to From Our Own Correspondent (Radio 4). He has presented TV travel documentaries for Discovery Channel and has been a columnist in the Daily Telegraph and the Observer. He is the author of the highly praised travel books, An Indian Odyssey, Grains of Sand and Absolute Altitude. He is married with one young son and currently divides his time between London and Corsica.
The evocative power of deserts has always provided the stuff of great stories from the travels of Moses to those of Lawrence of Arabia to The English Patient. In the late 1990s, journalist and broadcaster Martin Buckley departed on an eighteen-month journey to explore the world's deserts by truck, train, bus, mule and camel. Almost half the book describes the great Sahara, the world's largest desert, but there are substantial passages in Namibia and in the great deserts of the Americas, Australia and China and of course the 'holy' deserts of the Middle East. This is largely a book about the people he meets partly as a way of telling the histories of these places and exploring the cultures. In the process Buckley manages to define the essence of the desert and its place in human experience. This is a good story, full of fascinating characters from the desert regions of the world, one of the best travel books of the year. (Kirkus UK)
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