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English
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Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara. The ordeal of these men--who found themselves tested by barbarism, murder, starvation, death, dehydration, and hostile tribes...
2) Sahara
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this exhausting journey, Michael will pass through the rock of Gibraltar to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, and beyond. His route takes him across sand-seas, along treacherous rivers, through oases, and over mountain ranges.
4) Sahara
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Xin jing dian wen ku volume 2
Publisher
Beijing shi yue wen yi chu ban she
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文
11) In the desert
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Describes that it would be like to travel in the Sahara desert, and includes information about animals, plants, and terrain.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s,...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This documentary brings to life the Sahara's cruel history and the conflicts that still plague its people. It recounts the story of kings who once led caravans of 30,000 people across the desert, bearing riches beyond imagination. It tells of Roman death squads that exterminated the citizens of the Empire's most bitter rival and how the Foreign Legion crafted a legend out of last stands and lost causes. From the fabled metropolis of Timbuktu to the...
Author
Series
Across volume 055
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文
Author
Publisher
Flammarion
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
"Impressions of the Sahara sets out to explore the cultural heritage of this little-studied region. The chapters follow the caravan routes across the desert, stopping to celebrate local traditions such as the wall paintings of the women of Mauritania; the colorful markets of the Moroccan oasis towns; the illuminated manuscripts copied by generations of scribes and scholars; and the raw earth mosques of Niger, decorated with elaborate carvings that...
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