 The Precession of Simulacra, Page one, Paragraph 2,  "It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and  there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but  ours. The desert of the real itself." NB: The American title of  Baudrillards book is Simulations. It was published by Semiotext(e)  in 1983.