Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raisuli, son of the desert, had captured Ion Perdicaris, U. S. citizen, son of a Greek who had been dwelling in Morocco for some 20 years. When the Sultan of Morocco heard Roosevelt's stentorian demand, he agreed to Raisuli's demand and Perdicaris was released...
That was in 1904. Now, 21 years later, Raisuli, the bandit, grown fat and old and tame, is prisoner of a new son of the desert, Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Feb. 16, SPAIN). Now, according to word that came across the Atlantic last week, Ion Perdicaris is dead in Chislehurst, England...
...Desert men prefer having their dead bodies devoured by vultures to all forms of interment. "Better the entrails of a bird than the darkness of the tomb...
...fabulous mountains of Arkenu, blazing, like golden thunderheads above the desert...
...Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In this book, which is purged of science, he writes of long fatigues and desperate adventure like a University Fellow .discussing such fantasies over the afternoon crumpet, yet this reticence gives the tale an objective ambiguity, as if the type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers of nomadism. The volume is adorned with many excellent photographs, frontispieced with one of the author himself?no don, but a bold sheik, his falcon features glittering above an expanse of magnificent laundry...