Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World
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Book
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ISBN 10
1906011338
ISBN 13
9781906011338
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Publication Year
2011
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Pages
228
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Ralph Bagnold was among a group of eccentric British explorers who in the 1930's explored the deserts of North Africa using Model T Fords. This book describes his journeys into the region known as the Western Desert of Egypt or the Libyan Sahara. He is a central character in the group of explorers who would be later fictionalized in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Libyan Sands is an exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the Second World War. - from Amzon
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