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The core themes center around loss, personal and professional redemption and the intersections of high-stake corporate hospitality with the transformative power of natural landscapes. A major thematic anchor is the unforgiving environment of the Rub' al Khali (the Empty Quarter), the world's largest contiguous sand desert. The "death-dealing, constantly shifting desert forces CJ to confront his past and re-evaluate.

This is a Tangier medina riad.

A small courtyard garden--surrounded by the house--your home.
In CJ’s view, it is an excellent, safe and intimate space to get close to plants.
Traditionally it is a practical place for edible plants, medicinal plants, fragrant plants, beautiful plants--and it doesn’t require much water.

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Printed in 1916, this is a WWI spy story that is a road trip, a landscape journey from London to Amsterdam to Berlin to the Danube in Austria then Vienna, Budapest, Beograde onto Constantinople and beyond to Ankara and the Syrian border at the Euphrates.

Reading to understand Loti's interactions with Basques.

Lunn matches the histories of mountaineering and literature to build his story of the Swiss Alps. His is a subtle blend of accuracy and emotion in the strange world of experience in those Alps.

This work, with its rich bibliography is a great stepping off point for anyone fascinated by the Swiss Alps.

While not a botanist, Loti is a careful observer of the landscape, its form, plants, animals and people, of these low yet hilly plains between Tangier and Fes, the agricultural heartland of Morocco.

While not a botanist, Loti is a careful observer of the landscape, its form, plants, animals and people, of this area known as the Gharb Valley, the agricultural heartland of Morocco.

Can this entire story be a bit of tourist bunf to gin up accelerated tourism for health in the Swiss Alps? Is it too good to be true? Can claustrophobic and sickly city life be cured by a couple summers romping in the upper pasture lands of Switzerland?

This 16th century book about a man who rides the landscape of la mancha--so far I am a bit disappointed that the landscape setting does not get more complete treatment by Cervantes; but maybe that will change…

This is a story about the fallaheen, the country folk of Egypt. Even the first chapter alone give the reader a picture of the relationship between the fallaheen and the landscape.

Haikal's vocabulary, translated by John M. Grinsted, describes that relationship with an emotional depth as profound as that shared by Om Khaltum in her songs..

One hundred years ago, Westermarck wrote down these cultural bytes from Morocco. I wonder how many people are speaking them today…