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Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK)
"William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."—Joy Williams
In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places.
One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in eight of the world's driest, hottest places the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.
Download PDF The Immeasurable World A Desert Journey William Atkins Books
"Boring story. Our book club did not like it."
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The Immeasurable World A Desert Journey William Atkins Books Reviews :
The Immeasurable World A Desert Journey William Atkins Books Reviews
- Boring story. Our book club did not like it.
- The premise of the book struck me as odd, follow a man as he writes about wandering the desert. But Atkins is a strong writer and made the past and present of these places come to life as he revealed that while one word, 'desert', applies to all these places, they couldn't be more different. I like how he also conveyed the history of places such as Marilinga while in other places focused on the people he'd met. It's as if he knew each place had its own story to tell. One you can dip into and out of, or read cover to cover. I enjoyed revisiting it over weeks.
- I'm still reading my way through this book (got it at the public library). Will definitely finish it. Worth reading.
The reason I'm writing this now, is in the hope that the author monitors these reviews. He is an experienced writer, and former editorial director for a major publisher. Yet I am surprised at his writing style, in places. Don't think it is due to differences between British and American usage.
Most particularly, it seems that paragraphs often jump in place and time, sometimes consecutively without transition, and sometimes within a single paragraph. This creates a somewhat stream-of-consciousness effect, but this book is not in that genre. So, although the book is very readable and interesting, the style is surprising.
