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Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
Michael Asher
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| #1224622 in Books | Skyhorse Publishing | 2012-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.00 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Would make a great movie!|By John S. Marr MD|An obscure event at the end of the 18th century and the end of colonialism, this fascinating account of a failed French expedition into the unexplored region of the Sahel is gripping and well written. Research is meticulous, and the narrative reads as a novel. You will be transfixed.|10 of 13 people found the following review helpf|From Publishers Weekly|In 1880, the French government sent 100 men into the unexplored Sahara to scout the path for a possible railway from the coast. Here, Asher depicts a grim saga of treachery, endurance and slaughter along the way. In the desert, the expedit
Under-armed in hostile territory, and foolishly employing the enemy as guides, the one hundred explorers were ambushed and stranded without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Many were killed outright, and for four months the survivors were menaced by the Tuareg, the “lords of the desert,” robbed, starved, and tricked into eating poisoned fruit. To escape, the men hid in the wastelands of the Sahara with little hope of finding food or...
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