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Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan, 1996

Lawrence of Arabia on the Wadi Rum desert: "Our little caravan grew self-conscious, and fell dead quiet, afraid and ashamed to flaunt its smallness in the presence of the stupendous hills."

—From "Lawrence of Arabia," January 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Annie Griffiths Belt