Grains of Sand

Driven by a desire to explore the most remote, barren yet romantic places on earth, Martin Buckley set off on a two-year journey through the world’s deserts. In the Sahara he was threatened with murder. In the Gobi, he hijacked a cycle-rickshaw. Dehydrating in the Sonora, he hallucinated fruit cocktails. Encountering the desert at its most extreme, he learned how to find water - and how to spit tobacco into a camel’s nostril. Images of the desert exert a powerful grip on the human imagination, from Lawrence of Arabia to Star Wars . Deserts feel familiar, yet mysterious. The truth is that they are even stranger than we imagine. Grains Of Sand is a passionate, profound and frequently funny evocation of the world’s deserts and the people who live in them; an extraordinary global adventure, and a personal voyage of discovery.