Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
by William Langewiesche

Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
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Author: William Langewiesche
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-06-24
ISBN: 0679750061
Number of pages: 302
Publisher: Vintage

Summary of Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

The world's most vast and forbidding desert is revealed in all its cruelty and wonder in this masterpiece of contemporary travel writing by the author of Cutting for Sign. Determined to see the Sahara as its inhabitants do, Langewiesche crossed this enormous desert from Algiers to Dakar, braving its natural and human dangers and depending on its sparse sustenance and suspect charity. Photos.
Encounters, observations and revelations from a 1,200-mile trans-Saharan trek are poetically reported by William Langewiesche in Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Langewiesche was undaunted by the physical hardships of the trip, instead focusing on the beleaguered towns and people that survive along the desert's fringes and in its oases. As he discusses subjects as various as adobe walls and the history of prehistoric Tassili cave painters, he introduces old friends and people met by chance. Despite poverty and changes brought on by bare-bones technology, he reveals why for more than 2,000 years the desert has been seen as a place of trial, cleansing and illumination.

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