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On the dawn of the 20th hundred years, a young Lebanese adventurer leaves the Levant to explore the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric British colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. Within this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who have dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is also transporting it over the continent on the camel caravan. The protagonist soon requires charge of this hoard of architectural fragments, ferrying the dismantled landmark through Sudan, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula, attempting to return to his indigenous Beirut with this moveable real estate. Along the way, he encounters skeptic sheikhs, suspicious tribal leaders, bountiful feasts, pilgrims destined for Mecca, and TE Lawrence in a tent. This is a captivating modern-day Odyssey in the traditions of Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux.
