In The Conquest of the Sahara , Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century.
Focusing on the conquest of the Ahaggar Tuareg, a Berber people living in a mountain area in central Sahara, he goes on to describe the bizarre exploits of the desert's explorers and conquerors and the incompetence of the French military establishment.
Porch summons up a world of oases, desert forts and caf s where customers p.
Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl The conquest of the sahara: a history, paperback/douglas porch
