Sword & the Cross: The Conquest of the Sahara - Hardcover

Fleming, Fergus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862075271 ISBN 13: 9781862075276

Verlag: Granta Books, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This book is the story of two fanatical adventurers who helped make invading Algeria in 1830 by France possible. As new , good ,clean copy.

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"ON BARROW'S BOYS: 'Absolutely gripping...part thriller and part black comedy' Ian Hislop 'Gripping, hilarious, often flabbergasting, this is a splendid adventure book' Independent 'This is travel history of the best kind: entertaining, informed and opinionated' Sunday Times 'Fleming has an eye for a ripping yarn and a gift for spinning it. His anecdotal asides are gripping...He is a lively interpreter, with bags of narrative flair' Literary Review

Reseña del editor:

At the end of the 19th century, who would want to conquer the Sahara, a vast and hellish desert? France did, and this is the story of the two fanatical adventurers who made it possible. It is a dark and strange tale of survival in a harsh environment, extreme religious zeal, imperial dreams and violent death. This is a vivid, haunting and sharply witty history of a forgotten episode in Europe's colonial crusade, a narrative of self-sacrifice and cruelty, hatred and friendship, discovery and delusion, set against a backdrop of oceans of burning sand and waterless mountains of black rock.

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• Verlag: Granta Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1862075271
• ISBN 13: 9781862075276
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400