Michael Asher, Mariantonietta Peru // 9780688089269 // Two against the Sahara: on camelback from Nouakchott to the Nile // 1988 // Morrow, 1988 // 301 pages Two against the Sahara: on camelback from Nouakchott to the Nile Situation Aesthetics Michael Asher Los Angeles in the Seventies Michael Asher Writings 1973-1983 on works 1969-1979 Lawrence Khartoum Introduction To The Sahara. The Sahara Desert has a surface area of approximately 3, 320, 000 square miles (8.6million square kilometers) making it the worldâ™s largest hot desert with one of the harshest environments on earth. The desert covers nearly 10% of the African continent. The Sahara desert is undeniably one of the hottest places in the world but for the last few hundred thousand years, it has undergone a lot of climatic changes. There are two types of climate in the Sahara: a dry tropical climate in the south and a dry subtropical climate in the north. The dry subtropical climate is characterized by mild dry winters and a hot dry season after variable summer rains. There are also hot summers and cold to cool winters. In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. His reason for undertaking such an immense feat was to e 'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey before . .' In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. Really it makes the subsequent journey of Michael Asher (Two Against the Sahara: On Camelback from Nouakchott to the Nile) all the more remarkable. ...more. flag 2 likes · Like · see review. Nov 29, 2017 Feliks rated it liked it. Two Against the Sahara on Camelback from Nouakchott to the Nile (Penguin Travel Library): ISBN 9780140146691 (978-0-14-014669-1) Softcover, Viking Pr, 1991. Founded in 1997, BookFinder.com has become a leading book price comparison site: Find and compare hundreds of millions of new books, used books, rare books and out of print books from over 100,000 booksellers and 60+ websites worldwide. Coauthors & Alternates. Birgit Pelzer. Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in Northwest Africa. It is the eleventh largest country in Africa and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. The country derives its name from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, which existed from the 3rd century BCE into the 7th century CE in the far north of modern-day Morocco and Two Against the Sahara: On Camelback from by Michael Asher, Mariantonietta Peru. Asher's articulate recounting of his trip of 256 days across the width of the southern Sahara. Color and b&w photos. A great adventure. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Search: against sahara camelback nouakchott. Bienvenue a Nouakchott. Quick download ebook Two against the Sahara for PC - Free Books Online. Download free "Two against the Sahara, on camelback from Nouakchott to the Nile," by Michael Asher EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TX T, Kindle. Free Find Ebook The book was published in 1989 Language: English. Book description: Edition description: 1st U.S. ed. of "Two against the Sahara". Publisher: Originally published in Great Britain by Viking Penguin Inc., 1988--T.p. verso.. Date: 1989. Asher's articulate recounting of his trip of 256 days across the width of the southern Sahara. Color and b&w photos. A great adventure. Annotation copyright Book News. From Morocco in the West to Sudan in the East, Michael Asher and his diminutive and very forgiving new bride, set off to traverse the Sahara Desert the long way. For Asher, with experience of a campaigning life, this was hard enough, but you have to feel sorry for Marionetta Peru, who gave up her cushy UN job to embark on this madness. What we end up with is a unique view of Saharan culture. We see the differences between the peoples along the way, as the couple use one local guide after another to direct them from one water source to the next..