The Naked Land Author:Hammond Innes Hammond Innes cut his teeth as a writer during the Great Depression when he worked for a London daily. Inspired equally by geography and literature, he developed an early interest in writing about far-off places. In THE NAKED LAND, Innes sets his story in French Morocco, land of the Berbers, where murderous tribesmen compete for an arid and ina... more »ccessible piece of land known as Kasbah Foum. "THE NAKED LAND is an exciting and handsomely written a novel as Innes has given us yet." (Chicago Tribune)« less