![]() ![]() That surrender to the kindness of strangers is common to everything I’ve ever read about the desert, too. In a way, all desert books are about travelling within yourself, and not being entirely in control. In the emptiness they are faced with themselves and, as the marriage dissolves, the danger of travel becomes a nightmare – beyond the harsh terrain, disease and physical toll of desert travel, tragedy and madness wait. ![]() ![]() As everything disintegrates around them we see the truth behind the veneer of civility. As they journey south the heat and disorientation intensifies and the towns grow further and further apart, with wilderness sucking them into a chain of events they cannot control. The travellers are enthusiastic but their ignorance makes them vulnerable they have no way of being usefully watchful in this alien terrain. “It centres on an American couple travelling to Morocco and opens with the crazy markets and tearooms, the hubble-bubble smoking in the towns, which are a vivid, almost frightening glimpse of another world. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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