Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors.
While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled and the women hold property-a world in which anything can happen.
It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England.
In 1917, Alice returns home to a.
Rootstock Publishing Blue desert, paperback/celia jeffries
