“Look,” I said and pointed to my left. The sun was swollen. It sat atop the highest mountain visible to us, and it was drawing all the colors of the desert into the west. We watched, one sunset for three people. I

Works:

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

Herman Melville, Moby Dick