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CALL OF THE DESERT ~ Philippe Bourseiller ~ Picture Books
Comprehensive and good value collection of Saharan images
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EGYPT, CIVILISATION IN THE SANDS ~ Pauline and Phillipe de Flers ~ Picture Books
Excellent large-format book on the Gilf
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FLYAWAY ~ Desmond Bagley ~ Fiction
Authentic, Saharan thriller with dashing heroes and peripheral women
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FORGOTTEN
PATH ~ David Newman ~ Travelogues
A deluded individual's unintentionally
candid independence-era adventure in a Ford
Corsair.
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FROM
LIBYAN SANDS TO CHAD ~ Nigel Heseltine
~ Travelogues
Refreshingly
unapologetic un-PC travels from the late 1950s
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LIBYAN
SANDS ~ Ralph Bagnold ~ Travelogues
The classic account of British Saharan exploration
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MOST
BEAUTIFUL DESERT OF ALL ~ Philippe Diole
~ Travelogues
Beguiling description of camelling across the Tassili N'Ajjer
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MYSTERIOUS
SAHARA ~ Byron Khun de Prorok ~ Travelogues
Barmy, pre-war, self-aggrandising cod-archaeology
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SHELTERING SKY ~ Paul Bowles ~ Fiction
A couple's relationship crumbles as they journey into the menacing desert
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WIND,
SAND AND STARS ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery ~ Travelogues
Highly quotable desert philosophising by pioneer aviator
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