 | The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Buy used from: £0.99 An impressionist masterpiece, evoking the emptiness of the land and an emptiness inside an idle post-war couple. Read everything by Bowles.
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 | Night and Horses and the Desert: The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature
Buy used from: £8.33 Introducing the beauty of Arabic writing, in translation.
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 | Arabian Sands (Travel Library) by Wilfred Thesiger
Buy used from: £3.50 Thesiger has the greatest feeling for people and place.
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 | An Uncertain Grace by Sebastiao Salgado
Buy used from: £9.68 Sebastio Salgado's famous, darkly beautiful, pictures of terrible hardship during the eithiopian famine
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 | In Xanadu: A Quest (Flamingo) by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Great travel writing. Dalrymple followed Marco Polo's footsteps across the Middle East and Central Asia
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 | Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £2.56 A disturbed daydream of the orient
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 | The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat
Buy used from: £4.70 A complex, hallucinatory metaphor
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 | Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Environmental Alert Series) by S Postel
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £4.32 An inspiration to the green movement, and with profound implications for the arid parts of the world, and beyond
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 | A New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Cookery Library) by Claudia Roden
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £8.04 you've read the books, now eat the food.. a classic cookbook
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 | Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles
Buy used from: £2.45 These short stories include some of Bowles' finest work - highly recommended
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 | The Arabs (Penguin History) by Peter Mansfield
Buy used from: £8.50 A key to understanding the people and politics of a complex part of the world
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 | Islamic Art and Architecture (World of Art) by Robert Hillenbrand
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.78 The best introduction i've seen.. flick the pages and dream..
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