My Favourites

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

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