The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad

by Nicholas Jubber

Book Overview

"A passionate paean to the Sahara." -- New York Times, Season's Best Travel BooksThe Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857886542
• ISBN13: 9781857886542
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"