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“I hope that my story will offer preteens the vicarious thrill of sharing my travels while they gain some understanding of and respect for very different and fascinating cultures.”

Lawrie Raskin has always been enthralled with the Sahara Desert. He has lived with desert nomads and traveled with them on their camel caravans. As a result of his many trips to North Africa and the Middle East, he became fluent in Arabic, filmed TV documentaries, worked as an expedition guide and sold his photographs to various media around the globe.

As a youngster, Raskin was deeply affected by children’s books about nomadic life and the desert. In his teens, his imagination was further stirred by seeing the epic film Lawrence of Arabia. On numerous occasions in
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52 Days by Camel: My Sahara...

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