Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6M – Next → More Trade-off, and a Final One ••••• After a minute of silence the lieutenant confessed: ‘Tm afraid I had to promise him more than the shoes.” “What?”
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6L – Next → Unexpected Help, With a Trade-off ••••• We were preparing to settle down for a parched and hungry night when a green Land Rover pulled up beside us,
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6K – Next → More Breakdowns in Libya ••••• We decided to take a flight into the desert while we waited. A men’s magazine had commissioned us to watch for good
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6J – Next → Food Poisoning and Ghiblis ••••• By dusk we were tired and would have liked to set up camp, but we had to close the miles between us
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6I – Next → Horrors in Libya ••••• The pride of Tripoli is the spacious, palm-fringed boulevard that runs along her beach-studded harbor. It is one of the most impressive streets
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6H – Next → More Horrors in Tunisia ••••• When we reached the Tunisian border, we had trouble: The guards wouldn’t believe we had crossed the entire width of their country
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6G – Next → Illness Along the Thousands of Miles in the Desert ••••• We arrived after midnight at El Qued, where the drowsing duty officer was anything but glad to
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6F – Next → More Dangers in the Sahara Desert ••••• Since we drank insatiably, every other hour draining our five individual quart-size Thermos bottles and the two two-gallon jugs we
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6E – Next → More Equipment Breakdown ••••• Had we killed somebody? Had we just wounded him? How badly? Would he be back with a gang to get us? If he
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6D – Next → Losing Company and More Thieveries ••••• We also lost the girls that day, though not to the Arabs. They had planned to go farther with us, as
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