The old Darb al-Arbain caravan route…now enshrined in the mythology of the Western Desert…
-Alan Roe, The Darb al-Arbain and Kharga Oasis in Antiquity, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol.42
As John Ford said about Liberty Valance, When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. The Darb in fact is just one damned day after another, forty if you’re fast and forty five if you’re slow, but that would make one hell of a boring movie, so we made KhairAllah on the screen what he already was on the trail, mythic.