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Sahara, a natural history, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

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Sahara, a natural history, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-309)

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sahara

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49902047

Responsibility statement

Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

Sub title

a natural history

Summary

In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of dunes and gravel plains and at certain times waterfalls cascade from their peaks. Even the sand amazes: Massive dunes can appear almost overnight, and be gone just as quickly. We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere desert on Earth--yet it is full of surprises, as Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle reveal in this brilliant and evocative biography of the land and its people

Table Of Contents

Ideas of the desert -- Place itself: In a geographer's eye -- From the distant past -- Sand seas -- Winds -- Surprising matter of water -- Massifs -- Tenacity of life -- And the people who live there: First people -- Empires of the sun -- Route maps -- White gold, yellow gold, black gold -- Adepts of the uttermost desert -- Life on the road -- Sahara as home

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