Review: Exiles by William Atkins
Exiles is a thoughtful and perceptive exploration of the banished throughout history
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Exiles is a thoughtful and perceptive exploration of the banished throughout history
Reading List: Deserts The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins (Faber & Faber, £20) “It is curious how the desert satisfies me and gives me peace,” the explorer Wilfred Thesiger once wrote to his mother. “You cannot explain what you find there for those who don’t feel it too, for most people it is just a howling wilderness.” In The Immeasurable World, William Atkins goes looking for that peace as he explores the world’s desert regions, from China to America and from Arabia to Australia. What he finds instead is more complicated; a litany of “sand-...