Sahara: A Cultural History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199861958)

The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and camel trains trudging through sand dunes that roll like the waves on a sea, as far as the distant horizon. But this is just part of the picture. The largest desert in the world, the Sahara ranges from the river Nile running through Egypt and Sudan in the east, to the Atlantic coast from Morocco to Mauritania in the west; stretching from the Atlas Mountains and the shores of the Mediterranean in the north, to the fluid Sahelian fringe that delineates the desert in the south.

Author: Eamonn Gearon
ISBN-10: 0199861951
ISBN-13: 9780199861958
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d