Desert Encounter
by Knud Holmboe
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In this classic of travel writing, first published sixty years ago, a Danish journalist records his experience of life in North Africa under colonial rule. Driving through the Sahara in a battered Chevrolet, having converted to Islam and with a knowledge of Arabic, he leaves the beaten track to discover communities and landscapes shrouded in mystery for centuries. Brushes with magicians, cave-dwellers and Sufi mystics, however, prove less astonishing than the cruelties inflicted on the local show more populations by Mussolini's generals. show lessTags
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 916.1043 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Africa Tunisia; Libya; The Maghreb Generally
- LCC
- DT220 .H62 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Africa History of Africa Maghrib. Barbary States Libya
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- Languages
- English, Swedish
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- ISBNs
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