Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre by Michael Asher

Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre

Michael Asher

304 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous reflective medium-paced
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Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara. In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu, in Frenc...

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