The Conquest Of The Sahara
Porch, Douglas
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's 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 desert's explorers and conquerors and the incompetence of the French military establishment. Porch summons up a world of oases, desert forts and cafés 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 France's "civilizing mission" into this vast terrain, and at the same time, weaves a rich tale of extravagant hopes, genius and foolhardiness.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Praise for The Conquest of the Sahara:
"The Conquest of the Sahara is almost everything a book should be-an adornment for your home, a blitz of information for your brain, a diversion and a hoot, and, finally, balm for your soul." --The Los Angeles Times
"A bravura account...Readers with a taste for exotic popular history will savor Porch's wry sense of irony." -- Newsweek
"In this admirable book, Douglas Porch sets the record straight." --The Washington Post Book World
"Porch is knowledgeable. . .and a fine writer with a dramatic style . . .[he] has done a superb job." --The Boston Globe
"[Porch] presents a vivid blow-by-blow account of how this arid, inhospitable land was penetrated at a terrible cost." --The San Francisco Chronicle
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374128790
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 965/.03
Library of Congress: 2005040057
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 332
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