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Sahara
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Not for the first time during the reading of a book was I left feeling that a writer was becoming gradually disenchanted with his initial purpose, grand and promising to be full of adventure. It was plain enough that it was a tough ordeal for Palin. In the end, it just felt like he was glad that it was over.
The reason for the 3 stars then, apart from the fact that he writes pretty decently, dotted with the occasional wit, is that this book was like an inlet into, like MP and his childhood fantasies with the picture on the box of dates, my own inexplicable, and strange longing for the desert, and the lives of whole generations of people, who in spite of its exacting conditions, have lived on.
The reason for the 3 stars then, apart from the fact that he writes pretty decently, dotted with the occasional wit, is that this book was like an inlet into, like MP and his childhood fantasies with the picture on the box of dates, my own inexplicable, and strange longing for the desert, and the lives of whole generations of people, who in spite of its exacting conditions, have lived on.
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