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Sahara: A Natural History Tapa blanda - 2004

de Marq de Villiers; Sheila Hirtle

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Born in South Africa, Marq de Villiers is the author of seven books on exploration, history, politics, and travel, including Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (winner of the Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction), Down the Volga, and Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires, written with Sheila Hirtle. De Villers and Hirtle live in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

From the Hardcover edition.

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FROM SPACE, the Sahara is a brilliant band of caramel and beige, stretching from the dried-blood-red cliffs of Mauritania on the Atlantic Ocean to the bleached bone of Egypt's Eastern Desert hard by the Red Sea.

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Título Sahara: A Natural History
Autor Marq de Villiers; Sheila Hirtle
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición First Edition
Páginas 336
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Fecha de publicación 2004
ISBN 9780771026386 / 0771026382
Dewey Decimal Code 910.021

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“A cool book about one of the world’s hottest places.”
–National Geographic Adventure

“A thoughtful history of, and a popular guide to, the great African desert.”
–Kirkus Reviews

“The evocative blend of reportage and concise historical overview makes it a fine read for both armchair travelers and those interested in natural history.”
–Publishers Weekly

From the Hardcover edition.

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Born in South Africa, Marq de Villiers is the author of seven books on exploration, history, politics, and travel, including Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (winner of the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction), Down the Volga, and Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires, written with Sheila Hirtle. De Villers and Hirtle live in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

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In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of dunes and gravel plains, and at certain times waterfalls cascade from their peaks. Even the sand amazes: massive dunes can appear almost overnight, and be gone just as quickly. We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere desert on Earth—yet it is full of surprises, as Marq de Villiers reveals in his brilliant and evocative biography of the land and its people.

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Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2003 «The authors write in the introduction of Sahara: A Natural History, making it possible to envision the sheer vastness of the 3,320,000 square miles of arid landscape spanning Northern Africa. Drawing on sources from prehistoric cave paintings through medieval texts to satellite photographs of the destructive hurricanes that are fueled by the arid solar furnace of the Sahara before spiraling across the Atlantic to North America, the authors paint a highly evocative two-part portrait of what they define as "The Place Itself," "And the People Who Live There."». Soft cover. Fine.