A memoir of desert travel—by camel and horseback—from a beloved authorAninternationally renowned writer of mystery fiction, Mary RobertsRinehart knows her way around an exotic setting. When faced with thePyramids, the Nile, and the sprawling Egyptian desert in her own life,she does not fall in with the crowd of tourists waiting in line at thetombs of the Pharaohs. Instead, she hikes up her skirt, plants her pumpsin the sand, and hops on a camel. She has but one question: Where am Isupposed to sit?On a hundred-mile expedition into the Egyptiandesert, Rinehart does her best to master the herky-jerk of this desertbeast. But traveling with an entourage of well-mannered people, shefinds that desert living is not completely stripped of the comforts ofhome. Upon returning to the United States, Rinehart makes an excursionout west, which, she finds, is where the true adventure begins.