Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses eleven countries and is home to millions. This sweeping account upends old fantasies, revealing the far more interesting reality of the Earth’s largest hot desert. Drawing on decades of research, and years spent living in the region, anthropologist Judith Scheele takes us from Libya to Mali, Algeria to Chad, from the ancient Roman Empire to contemporary regional battles and fraught international diplomacy, questioning every easy clich? and exposing fascinating truths along the way.
Shifting sands
HistoryAuthor Judith Scheele Published by Profile Books ISBN 9781788166454 EAN 9781788166454 Bic Code WT|JHMC|RGCP|NHH Cover Hardback
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