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1. 'The Land of Little Rain' by Mary Hunter Austin details human and non-human life in the American Southwest between Death Valley and the High Sierras. What is its format?
2. 'The English Patient' (1992) is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje which features four dissimilar people brought together by WWII. The story is told in retrospect with an African desert playing a prominent role in the unfolding of the plot. Which desert?
3. With his craggy looks and dark wavy hair, renowned adventurer Dirk Eric Pitt is the rangy protagonist of the 1992 novel 'Sahara'. Who created him?
4. Which of Matthew Reilly's chief protagonists is a marine and the hero in his 1998 novel 'Ice Station'?
5. Set in Australia's outback, we are introduced to a young school teacher named John Grant in Kenneth Cook's debut novel, 'Wake in ____'. What scary option completes this tile?
6. True or false: 'Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence' is based on a true story of three children's trek home through the Western Australia desert.
7. Well-known author Wilbur Smith writes chiefly about his native Africa. He has authored a series of novels, named the 'Ancient Egyptian' series, set in the time of the Pharaoh Memnon, and his influential slave, Taita. Which of these titles, written in 2014, is part of that series?
8. 'Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry?' is an educational book released in 2011. Who acts as the tour guide?
9. Roland travels across the desert pursuing the man in black whom he knows as Walter. This is the start of which book by Stephen King?
10. The somewhat ironic title 'Ice Cold in Alex' follows the story of an ambulance crew in World War II in which inhospitable place?
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