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Sands of Death: An Epic Tale of Massacre and Survival in the Sahara [Audiobook] download free by Michael Asher

Sands of Death: An Epic Tale of Massacre and Survival in the Sahara Audiobook download free by Michael Asher
  • Listen audiobook: Sands of Death: An Epic Tale of Massacre and Survival in the Sahara
  • Author: Michael Asher
  • Release date: 2008/2/7
  • Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780753823583
  • Rating: 8.34 of 10
  • Votes: 259
  • Review by: Margot Clough
  • Review rating: 9.55 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/9
  • Duration: 3H50M20S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-14
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MP4, FLAC, WAV, MPC, MPEG4, WMA (compression LZMA, TAR.7Z, ZIP, TBZ, RAR, XZ)
  • Total pages original book: 304
  • Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 16M28S (4.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the SaharaIn December 1880 a French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway that would stretch from their colony in Algeria right across the Sahara desert to reach their territories in West Africa. 'Paris to Timbuctoo in Six Days' was the slogan. It would do for the French colonies what the American railways were doing in the western states at the same time. No native opposition was expected. As one of the expedition's organizers said, 'A hundred uncivilized tribesmen armed with old-fashioned spears: what is that against the might of France?' Four months later, a handful of emaciated survivors staggered into a remote outpost on the edge of the desert. Although armed with modern rifles, the column had been lured to destruction by the self-styled 'lords of the desert', the Tuareg. At this, the highpoint of European colonialism in Africa, this story of treachery, massacre, torture and even cannibalism made headlines around the world. Attacked by the Tuareg in their remote heartland, the survivors had been pursued for weeks on end, driven into the waterless desert to die. The desperate lengths they resorted to shocked Victorian sensibilities. They do not make easy reading now. This grisly story, told by our greatest living desert explorer reveals what happened when the conceit of western colonialism met the equally arrogant Tuareg, who had dominated this remote region, and anyone trying to cross it, for a thousand years.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Geographical Discovery & Exploration, Trains & Railways, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Indigenous Peoples, Guidebooks, European History, African History, Railway Technology, Engineering & Trades, Battles & Campaigns, Asian History
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 11.44 USD
  • Dimensions: 165x201x25mm
  • Weight: 290g
  • Printed by: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
  • Published in: London, United Kingdom

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