Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book is a love letter to the Arab countries and peoples of North Africa and the Middle East. Laid out in a horizontal format, with large pictures and notes in a diary form, the photos on these pages give the viewer a chance to experience the life and beauty of the desert. Heiner Schmitz combines colorful panoramic photographs from 2004 with black and white photos from the 60s to create a vivid picture of the deserts in Egypt, Jordan, Libya and Syria, and introduce the reader to fantastic landscapes and unusual places.