This is a GREAT thread. Having been an English major eons ago, I must have read nearly everything out there (or so I'd like to think), so nowadays, I will not pick up any fiction, but I love true adventure. One of my passions is camels, so I think I've read all there is to read about camel expeditions across the deserts, etc. However, knowing that this is not making any of you salivate, I will tell you about the book I just finished (because it's not about camels, per se) which is Desert Flower by Waris Dirie, a Somalian nomad in her early years who faced painful and difficult challanges and later became a famous international model. Today she has her own foundation and web site for the purpose of educating people about female genital mutilation, a practice still going on today. I found this book by "googling" the word camels.