Death in the Sahara - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Sahara write by Michael Asher. This book was released on 2008-05-17. Death in the Sahara available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara. In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu, in French Sudan, to Paris. This trek should have heralded a new era of French prosperity. Instead, it was a deadly fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory, and foolishly employing the enemy as guides, the one hundred men of the expedition were ambushed and stranded without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Many were killed outright, and for four months the survivors were menaced by the Tuareg, the "lords of the desert," robbed, starved, and tricked into eating poisoned fruit. To escape, the men hid in the wastelands of the Sahara with little hope of finding food or water. They were finally forced to eat their own dead, or, worse, the merely weak. Only a dozen malnourished men lived to tell their tale. The story of their 1,000 mile journey is one of the most astonishing narratives of survival ever recorded. With a "superb grip of narrative and uncanny ability to evoke battle scenes" (The Guardian), Michael Asher has written an amazing true story that is as dramatic as it is frightening. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Sands of Death
Sands of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sands of Death write by Michael Asher. This book was released on 2011-12-15. Sands of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara In December 1880 a French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway that would stretch from their colony in Algeria right across the Sahara desert to reach their territories in West Africa. 'Paris to Timbuctoo in Six Days' was the slogan. It would do for the French colonies what the American railways were doing in the western states at the same time. No native opposition was expected. As one of the expedition's organizers said, 'A hundred uncivilized tribesmen armed with old-fashioned spears: what is that against the might of France?' Four months later, a handful of emaciated survivors staggered into a remote outpost on the edge of the desert. Although armed with modern rifles, the column had been lured to destruction by the self-styled 'lords of the desert', the Tuareg. At this, the highpoint of European colonialism in Africa, this story of treachery, massacre, torture and even cannibalism made headlines around the world. Attacked by the Tuareg in their remote heartland, the survivors had been pursued for weeks on end, driven into the waterless desert to die. The desperate lengths they resorted to shocked Victorian sensibilities. They do not make easy reading now. This grisly story, told by our greatest living desert explorer reveals what happened when the conceit of western colonialism met the equally arrogant Tuareg, who had dominated this remote region, and anyone trying to cross it, for a thousand years.
Sands of Death
Sands of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sands of Death write by Michael Asher. This book was released on 2007. Sands of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Death in the Desert
Death in the Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Desert write by John R. L. Anderson. This book was released on 1977. Death in the Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Death in the Desert
Death in the Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Desert write by Paul Iselin Wellman. This book was released on 1963. Death in the Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
