The Tuareg

Foreword by John Julius Norwich and photographs by Roger Balsom. 245 x 185 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. (xvi) + 142, incl. index; map; photographic illustrations in black-and-white and full colour. Cover a little sunned and shelf-worn. Very good condition. "There can be few people in England better qualified to write about the Sahara in general, and the Tuareg in particular, than Ken and Julie Slavin. Separately and together, they have travelled the desert for years; and the mutual sympathy that has grown up between them and the most intriguing of Saharan tribes emerges unmistakably from these pages - nowhere with more impact than in the extraordinary account of the Tuareg celebration of their marriage, with which the book ends. This sympathy alone suffices to make it the most valuable study of the subject in English since Lord Rennell of Rodd's great work of nearly half a century ago, and to give it an importance that the authors' amateur standpoint in no way diminishes. Amateurs they may be, but in the best, truest sense of the word: people who love their subject, and whose love allows them a special insight that no amount of cold scientific investigation can hope to match." - John Julius Norwich. …