 | The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £10.19 A wonderfully evocative account of desert life and how it is related to Islam. Profound in parts; lyrical intensity that is unsurpassed. Inner turmoil of inetr-war years.
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 | The Songlines (Vintage classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.26 Brilliant flashes of insight on nomadism and restlessness. A vanishing way of life that itself now appears dreamlike.
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 | The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.00 Beautiful, vivid, 'atmospheric' account. Written with a lightness of touch that verges on greatness. Architecture, geography and history: a mystical unity. Purple prose.
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 | What am I Doing Here? (Vintage Classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.29 Delightful summoning up of the bizarre and weird; winged horses and Li Po, Malevich and Islamic monotheism: the strangeness of the world
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 | The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West by Tom Reiss
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £2.99 Seemy review here or a fuller version on my blog: http://bagginsandco.blogspot.com
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 | Desert, Marsh & Mountain by Wilfred Thesiger
Buy used from: £2.98 Stunning photographs (but see Visons of a Nomad); Nostalgic trek through a disappearing world studded with poignant recollections
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 | Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics) by Antoine Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £3.43 Superlative drawing of a heroic world; mesmerizing and translucent writing, full of compassion and wisdom
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