The Conquest Of The Sahara

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1985
Edition: First Edition

Description: 332 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In The Conquest of the Sahara , Douglas Porch tells the story of Frances struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century.Focusing on the conquest of the Ahaggar Tuareg, a Berber people living in a mountain area in central Sahara, he goes on to describe the bizarre exploits of the deserts explorers and conquerors and the incompetence of the French military establishment. Porch summons up a world of oases, desert forts and cafs where customers paid the dancer by licking a one-franc piece and sticking it on her forehead.The Conquest of the Sahara reveals the dark side of Frances "civilizing mission" into this vast terrain, and at the same time, weaves a rich tale of extravagant hopes, genius and foolhardiness.

ISBN: 0224021346