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I finished Musk, Hashish and Blood by Hector France. He was a colonial soldier in French Algeria and his stories are absolutely crazy. I like the perspective, because there's so much that's different, so much that isn't. He has Bedouin friends, but looks down on (In a racist way) the various other tribes. There's a strange hierarchy wherein a 'Mohammedan' can be both the epitome of culture and progressive thinking or a completely unknowable savage, depending on context. I should probably re-read it, there's a metric ton of footnotes that I mostly ignored the first time through.