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Laddar... Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacreav Michael Asher
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Exciting and fascinating story about the expedition into the Sahara to study it in order to build a railroad from the Mediterranean Sea to Timbucktu. I couldn't put it down! ( ) An excellent book, written in an exciting and readable style. It tells the story of French attempts to survey a railway route across the Sahara to Timbuctoo, southwards through Tuareg territory. The massacre of a French column led ultimately to the subjugation of the Tuareg, although the railway was never built as by that time air transport had intervened. My one complaint is the map. While it is quite comprehensive, it does not include all the places mentioned in the text and, as such, is quite irritating. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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 French Sudan, to Paris. This trek should have heralded a new era of French prosperity. Instead, it was a deadly fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory, and foolishly employing the enemy as guides, the one hundred men of the expedition were ambushed and stranded without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Many were killed outright, and for four months the survivors were menaced by the Tuareg, the "lords of the desert," robbed, starved, and tricked into eating poisoned fruit. To escape, the men hid in the wastelands of the Sahara with little hope of finding food or water. They were finally forced to eat their own dead, or, worse, the merely weak. Only a dozen malnourished men lived to tell their tale. The story of their 1,000 mile journey is one of the most astonishing narratives of survival ever recorded. With a "superb grip of narrative and uncanny ability to evoke battle scenes" (The Guardian), Michael Asher has written an amazing true story that is as dramatic as it is frightening. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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