GLORY IN A CAMEL'S EYE: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara
Jeffrey Tayler, . . Houghton Mifflin, $25 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-618-15547-7
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Reviewed on: 05/12/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
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