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An award-winning book about seven deserts in five continents, divine and eternal, William Atkins travels to Oman, Australia, China, Kazakhstan, United States and Egypt. Blending travel, natural history, memoir and a little bit of spiritualism, here are stories that will live with you for a long time, human stories from the dead nuclear wastelands of Australia, the misery at the US-Mexico border, and the encroaching deserts of Kazakhstan. In the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, the author spends a week in the Burning Man Festival. He is humorous and makes sharp observations on people, history, nature and symbolism in these remarkable and apparently barren places as he encounters atmospheric, geological and geographical features in deserts we will never explore as well as touching on modern political issues. 408pp, paperback.