Living in one of the most inhospitable and pitiless environments on earth, the Tuareg have been the guardians of the Sahara for more than a millennium, continuing a nomadic pastoralist lifestyle that has been traditional among their fellow Berbers for countless generations. Moving constantly across national borders they can be found in the present-day nations of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya. For much of their history,...