Libyan Sands - Travel in a Dead World

Informationen zum Autor 135696 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A work of an Englishman! a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.

Product details

• Authors: R A Bagnold, R. A. Bagnold, Ralph A. Bagnold
• Publisher: Eland Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2010
• EAN: 9781906011338
• ISBN: 978-1-906011-33-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales