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Forbidden sands : a search in the Sahara / Richard Trench.
LIBRA DT551.2 .T73 1982 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trench, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mali--Description and travel.
- Mali.
- Sahara--Description and travel.
- Sahara.
- Trench, Richard.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 197 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Academy Chicago, 1982.
- Summary:
- A Young Man Travels across the Western Sahara to Timbuktu on a journey few Europeans have taken. Death nearly catches up with him in a sandstorm, the entire caravan nearly perishes of thirst, there are rumbles of war from the Spanish Sahara. When the author returned a year later the Polisario were in charge in Mali and the world in this book had vanished. This was truly the Last Caravan.
- Notes:
- "First paperback edition 1982 Academy Chicago"--Title page verso.
- Reprint of the 1978 ed. published by J. Murray, London.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0897330277
- 9780897330275
- OCLC:
- 900553783
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