…tramping across the desert with camels and Arabs, a proceeding not conducive to the preservation of delicate instruments…
-A Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, by his Daughter, Amy Frances Yule, 1903
We had with us an Aaton film camera and a Sony Walkman Pro. The drovers and the camels both were exceedingly gentle with the equipment, but the sand was not. Al-Raml Hiyākulu, the Sand Will Eat It, said KhairAllah, by which he meant, Whatever you have to give, the desert will take. Yet by the end of the Darb we had turned the tables. It was the Sahara which gave, and we who did the taking. Pictures, audio, movies, stories.