Belgrave served as a district officer in the Western Desert after the First World War. He travels from the coast at Mersa Matruh and Sollum, with its Bedouin camps and hawking, across the desert to Siwa, home of the ancient Oracle of Amun, describing its mud-brick towns, date gardens, Berber people, marriage customs, quarrels and the hardships of the Senussi occupation during the war.
A lively firsthand account of an isolated oasis, with a foreword by Sir Reginald Wingate. Download the free EPUB.