Full name: Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

Author: William Langewiesche Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679750062 0679750061

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. Similar books: Africa Solo by Kevin Kertscher Crazy River by Richard Grant Sahara by Michael Palin Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux Angry Wind by Jeffrey Tayler Malaria Dreams by Stuart Stevens Swahili for the Broken-hearted by Peter Moore North of South by Shiva Naipaul The Fearful Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse To Timbuktu by Mark Jenkins No Mercy by Redmond O'Hanlon The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson East Along the Equator by Helen Winternitz A Tourist in Africa by Evelyn Waugh The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller Man Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux The Vast Unknown by Broughton Coburn