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The world's most vast and forbidding desert is revealed in all its cruelty and wonder in this masterpiece of contemporary travel writing by the author of "Cutting for Sign". Determined to see the Sahara as its inhabitants do, Langewiesche crossed this enormous desert from Algiers to Dakar, braving its natural and human dangers and depending on its sparse sustenance and suspect charity. Photos. Map.

"This is no account of oceanic dunes traversed by shiplike camel trains. It embodies the gleanings of a tough, independent traveler, moved but undeluded by the desert's allure and alive to its modern meanings: social, ecological, political. William Langewiesche's most vital subjects are the beleaguered towns and people that survive along the desert's fringes and in its oases."

Colin Thubron, New York Times Book Review, 08/11/1996

"Mr. Langewiesche, a former commercial pilot who has visited the countries of the Sahara often, exploits the harshness, forlornness and political hopelessness of the vast desert to fashion an entertaining and edifying tale....[He] writes...in a pleasantly lean and mildly sardonic way. He never complains, even when we know he is suffering. He also enjoys the considerable advantage of knowing people in these exotic locales, and his portraits of them are among the highlights of his account."

Richard Bernstein, New York Times, 07/22/1996

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