Desert Encounter

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Quilliam Press Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: Reprint

Description: 281 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this classic of travel writing, first published sixty years ago, a Danish journalist records his experience of life in North Africa under colonial rule. Driving through the Sahara in a battered Chevrolet, having converted to Islam and with a knowledge of Arabic, he leaves the beaten track to discover communities and landscapes shrouded in mystery for centuries. Brushes with magicians, cave-dwellers and Sufi mystics, however, prove less astonishing than the cruelties inflicted on the local populations by Mussolini's generals.

ISBN: 9781872038100