Dune dreams: Peter O'Toole's cinematic marvel collides with butt-aching reality

By Lindy Percival
Updated January 1 2017 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Lindy Percival and Lindsay Cobb on their Saharan adventure in November 1989. Photo: Supplied
Lindy Percival and Lindsay Cobb on their Saharan adventure in November 1989. Photo: Supplied

It was the camel meat that did it. Festering inside a dusty hessian bag and passed from one desert guide to another, it hung briefly in the air like a harbinger of doom.

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