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'Transports the reader to another world' Sunday Express Adventurer
and TV presenter Alice Morrison takes the reader on three
remarkable and inspirational journeys across Morocco, from the
Sahara to the Atlas mountains, to reveal the growing challenges
faced by our planet. Accompanied only by three Amazigh Muslim men
and their camels, Scottish explorer Alice Morrison set off to find
a hidden world. During her journey along the Draa river, she
encountered dinosaur footprints and discovereda lost city, as well
as what looked like a map of an ancient spaceship, all the while
trying to avoid landmines, quicksand and the deadly horned viper.
Few places better illustrate the reality of climate change and the
encroachment of the desert than a dried-out riverbed, but this also
means a constant search for the next source of water. Meeting other
nomads as they travel, Alice also gets to hear a side of their
lives few ever access, as the women would never be allowed to speak
to men from outside their community. They explain the challenges of
giving birth and raising children in the wilderness. As the journey
continues, Alice learns to enjoy goat's trachea sausages, gets a
saliva shower from Hamish the camel as he blows out his sex bubble,
and shares riddles round the camp fire with her fellow travellers.
Walking with Nomads reveals the transformative richness of the
desert and the mountains, providing a total escape from everyday
concerns, but it also shows how the ancient world of the nomad is
under threat as never before.
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