desert riches

For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realises that it is God who does not care: and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other
Lawrence Durrell, Justine

And frankincense was really at the heart of Dhofar’s importance to the world, the king maker. It was Dhofar that was the chief supplier of this product to the world, and the sap harvested from its knotted trees made kingdoms of the ports and towns it passed through, the life-blood in the veins of the world. For an age in history, Dhofar was the centre of the world. In time, as the frankincense trade crumbled, the kingdoms caved in and the famous frankincense highway disappeared into the encroaching desert, the Empty Quarter or Rub al Khali that we travelled through.

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