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

286 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous reflective medium-paced
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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 s...

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