Inspiring Travel Writing About Deserts

"The only thing worse than doing the Tongariro Crossing in bad weather is doing it in perfect weather..."

"I was tired. Exhausted. Ready to flop. I'd arrived in Zarabad, a sweet secluded village north of Tehran, with sleep rather than sightseeing on my mind. But in Iran, a land of soft light, poetic description and elegiac landscapes, the offer of a dusk..."

"Now that it’s the cricket season down under once again, I’ve decided to have a little fun with the national religion and see how Australia’s tourist assets might line up in an ultimate eleven to beat the world."

"Wilfrid Thesinger annotated the saleroom catalogue which disposed of his lifelong collection of Arabian travel-books. Beside Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, he commented, “No other book about Arabia can compare with this.”"