Shifting sands Urban planning the book takes us from

the book takes us from the monkey puzzles planted in Cornish coastal gardens to the wave-beaten rocks of Fingal's Cave

the gravest crisis the country has faced since the Second World War

accept our desires and aspirations and then have the courage to set ourselves free

Ethel Merman

with a total annual population nearing a quarter of a million

Shifting sands Urban planning the book takes us fromBlue veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses eleven countries and is home to millions. This sweeping account upends old fantasies, revealing the far more interesting reality of the Earth's largest hot desert. Drawing on decades of research, and years spent living in the region, anthropologist Judith