Saharaöknen

'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .'Of all Michael Palin's epic voyages, this …

1955, Kenya. A group of four acquaintances set out to drive from Nairobi to London, via the Sahara desert, in a 8 horse-power Morris Traveller. Under the leadership of Alan Cooper, …

Visionary in scale, and the first contemporary novel in over a decade from number one worldwide bestseller Ken Follett, Never imagines a scenario we all hope never comes true: the …

In the first half of the twentieth centruy, European writers plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams. What did they hope to find? …

An account of Justin Marozzi's 1500-mile journey by camel along the slave-trade routes of the Libyan Sahara. More than a travelogue, "South From Barbary" is a fascinating history …

The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time.'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path …

En inre resa börjar i Sven Lindqvists Bänkpress, vilken i Ökendykarna får sin fortsättning i en yttre. När upptäckten av kroppen ger tillgång till minnen och drömmar leder spåren …

'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey …

We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere desert on Earth - yet it is full of surprises, as Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle reveal in this biography of the land …

The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara.Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU …