We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere desert on Earth - yet it is full of surprises, as Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle reveal in this biography of the land and its people.[...]
Timbuktu--the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one of mankind's treasures. Founded in the early 1100s by Tua[...]