Description
In the Heart of the Desert is the story of D.M. (Mike) Morton, an exploration geologist who explored the remoter parts of the Middle East between 1945 and 1984. It covers events in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Palestine and Iraq as well as providing an exciting glimpse of the trials and tribulations of oil exploration. The author, Mike’s second son, describes an extraordinary world of autonomous sheikhs and their tribes, Bedouins, interesting expatriates and a group of bold geologists driven by an oil company’s search for oil. This is a detailed and thoroughly researched account of his father’s life and culminates in the story of his own journey to southern Arabia and a poignant meeting of the present with the past
