02 August 2018, The Tablet

Desert delights: A good old-fashioned travel book by William Atkins


Desert delights: A good old-fashioned travel book by William Atkins

The monastery of St Paul the Anchorite in Egypt

 
William Atkins makes seven journeys to seven different deserts and tells us about them – both what is there now and their history and culture, and also his own experience of them.
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