1 But the Sahara isn't all sand b...
1 But the Sahara isn't all sand bare-scrubbed plains, barren soil, thorn, halting stone, gravel shimmering ocher and drab Dunes the color of honey wind sculpt ruffle and flute a knife cutting side to leeward, a hundr feet high Tied dune reflected sound dunes, barchans, seifs parabolic blowout dune transverse dune sigmoidal dune sand seas' shifting shapes (quartz mould fine as flour, powdered sugar) Mountains with hills of their admit on their backs, the shifting and chaotic desert topology 2 Tent lugging against the heaving waves, they live in a curtain of sand (wind
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