Shifting sands : a human history of the Sahara
Scheele, Judith, 1978-2025
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Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses eleven countries and is home to millions. This sweeping account upends old fantasies, revealing the far more interesting reality of the Earth's largest hot desert. Drawing on decades of research, and years spent living in the region, anthropologist Judith Scheele takes us from Libya to Mali, Algeria to Chad, from the ancient Roman Empire to contemporary regional battles and fraught international diplomacy, questioning every easy cliché and exposing fascinating truths along the way.
Main title:
Shifting sands : a human history of the Sahara / Judith Scheele.
Author:
Scheele, Judith, 1978-, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2025.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781788166454 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
6882398
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