Crossing the Sahara Desert
Author | : Paul Pometto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781633852877 |
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Author | : Paul Pometto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781633852877 |
Author | : Ariane Audouin-Dubreuil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781854432223 |
Author | : Klaus Braun |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-08-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3030001458 |
This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, historical maps and results from several expeditions, the book gives an overview of the historical periods of the caravan trade as well as detailed information about the infrastructure which was necessary to establish those trade networks. Included are a variety of unique historical and recent maps as well as remote sensing images of the important trade routes and the corresponding historic oases. To give a deeper understanding of how those trading networks work, aspects such as culturally influenced concepts of spatial orientation are discussed. The book aims to be a useful reference for the caravan trade in the Sahara, that can be recommended both to students and to specialists and researchers in the field of Geography, History and African Studies.
Author | : Chris Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sahara |
ISBN | : 9781873756768 |
Whether readers are traveling by 4WD or camel, this acclaimed guide covers all aspects Saharan and includes 10,000 miles of itineraries in Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, and Egypt.
Author | : Michael Benanav |
Publisher | : Lyons Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : Caravans |
ISBN | : 9781599211640 |
Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Seasonal PickAn American's life-or-death adventure to the salt mines of the Sahara Desert
Author | : Geoffrey Moorhouse |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0571287123 |
'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey before . . .' In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. His reason for undertaking such an immense feat was to examine the roots of his fear, to explore an extremity of human experience. From the outset misfortune was never far away; and as he moved further into that 'awful emptiness' the physical and mental deprivation grew more intense. In March 1973, having walked the last 300 miles, Moorhouse, ill and exhausted, reached Tamanrasset, where he decided to end his journey. The Fearful Void is the moving record of his struggle with fear and loneliness and, ultimately, his coming to terms with the spiritual as well as the physical dangers of the desert.
Author | : Steve Donahue |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2004-05-10 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1576759768 |
This is a guidebook for dealing with times of change, ranging from career to marriage to raising a family to the ever-changing journey of life itself.
Author | : William Langewiesche |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-04-20 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 030778066X |
It is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said thatmigratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. William Langewiesche came to the Sahara to see it as its inhabitants do, riding its public transport, braving its natural and human dangers, depending on its sparse sustenance and suspect hospitality. From his journey, which took him across the desert's hyperarid core from Algiers to Dakar, he has crafted a contemporary classic of travel writing. In a narrative studded with gemlike discourses on subjects that range from the physics of sand dunes to the history of the Tuareg nomads, Langewiesche introduces us to the Sahara's merchants, smugglers, fixers, and expatriates. Eloquent and precise, Sahara Unveiled blends history and reportage, anthropology and anecdote, into an unforgettable portrait of the world's most romanticized yet most forbidding desert.
Author | : Tristan Gooley |
Publisher | : The Experiment |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1615191550 |
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.
Author | : Kathleen Bickford Berzock |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 069118268X |
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.