ship of the desert

Weren't they sometimes called the ships of the desert?

Camels, ships of the desert, had more business in the ocean than she.

But going out into the street, he spies a camel, a ship of the desert.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why they've long been called ships of the desert.

Obviously a haven for these ships of the desert.

Camels - They are the ships of the desert.

As a foodstuff, the ship of the desert has been cast adrift.

Long before the oil industry moved in, the Bedou tribes prized the animal known as the "ship of the desert".

Not these traditional ships of the desert.

The evil-smelling ship of the desert lodged in his garage testified amply to that.

Every Palestinian child knows and understands the camel, a part of the landscape here, "the cargo ship of the desert," he said.

Today, sports utility vehicles have largely replaced the hump-backed 'ships of the desert' throughout the Middle East.

To him the camel is more than "the ship of the desert"; it is the special gift of Allah.

After they had forced a passage for us back through the manic multitude, we scrambled onto the long-wheelbase jeeps, the new ships of the desert.

Camels have been fabled ships of the desert for centuries but in Abu Dhabi they face a new threat from humans.

Innumerable skeletons of camels lay in all directions; the ships of the desert thus stranded on their voyage.

Camels may be known as "ships of the desert" but the vast tankers that pass daily through the Suez Canal are the real deal.

Regardless, the remade hotel, perched on the edge of the Sahara, gives new meaning to the old simile "ship of the desert."

Supposedly his ship was swept inland with a tsunami, later becoming known as the Lost Ship of the Desert.

This way of walking makes the dromedary's body swing from side to side as it walks, hence its nickname: "the ship of the desert".

If camels are called 'ships of the desert', why aren't tugboats called 'camels of the sea'?

Be it by ship of the desert (camel) or four wheel drive vehicle we sell a fine range of maps suitable for the potential desert traveller.

At sunset, your Ship of the Desert ambles to a desert hotel, where you can relax and listen to live Berber drumming.

When our Mercedes reached Wadi Rum, we temporarily traded it for a truck - the Japanese-made ship of the desert.

These "ships of the desert" could carry upwards of 300 pounds and could travel up to four miles an hour with few stops (certainly fewer than horses).