Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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- 1848
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The explorer James Richardson recounts his hazardous journey across the vast Sahara Desert in 1845-46, describing the caravans, oases, peoples, and dangers of one of the harshest and least-known regions on earth. Blending adventure, ethnography, and firsthand observation of the trans-Saharan trade (including the horrors of the slave routes) the narrative brings a remote world vividly to life. Richardson's account fed the nineteenth century's fascination with African exploration and remains a valuable historical record. Vivid and often harrowing, Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara is a compelling chronicle of endurance and discovery at the edges of the mapped world.
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- Author
- James Richardson
- First published
- 1848
- Reading time
- About 20 hours
- Pages
- 1,639
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online