“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” —Janis Joplin A journalist’s intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. “Look, there’s my car,” I say, pointing at my Mercedes in the parking lot. “Where?” a fellow desert traveler asks. “There, that Mercedes,” I say. He looks at me, questioning. “You want to drive that through the Sahara?” Jeroen van Bergeijk came up with what seemed like a great scheme for making a quick profit: b...
cute animals book (Beginner Painting, #9) (Art Gift, #19)
by Creative Color
In 1832, Eugène Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco, the first leg of a journey through the Maghreb and Andalusia that left an indelible impression on the painter. This comprehensive, annotated English-language translation of his notes and essays about this formative trip makes available a classic example of travel writing about the “Orient” from the era and provides a unique picture of the region against the backdrop of the French conquest of Algeria. Delacroix’s trave...
Great Pyramid in Giza Egypt - Lined Notebook with Black Cover
by Legacy
A Travers l'Algerie: Souvenirs de l'Excursion Parlementaire (Histoire)
by Paul Bourde
Tunisia through a Camera Lens (A photographic journey through Tunisia)
by M Lab
The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and camel trains trudging through sand dunes that roll like the waves on a sea, as far as the distant horizon. But this is just part of the picture. The largest desert in the world, the Sahara ranges from the river Nile running through Egypt and Sudan in the east, to the Atlantic...
Nouveau Voyage Fait Au Levant, Es Annees 1731 Et 1732 (Ed.1742) (Histoire)
by Jean-Baptiste Tollot
Tunisia (Travel Guide) (Lonely Planet Country Guides)
by Anthony Ham and Abigail Hole
Includes accommodation and restaurant listings for all budgets and tastes; useful information on getting around, including 4WD desert tours; the lowdown and what to buy and where, from birdcages to silver jewellery and carpets; special features on Tunisia's Roman, Berber and Islamic architecture; and language sections.
His nineteenth century cousin was paddled ashore by slaves, and twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, journalist Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping. Part family memo...
