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Libyan Sands

Travel in a Dead World

R A Bagnold

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English
Eland
01 January 2011
Ralph Bagnold was among a group of eccentric British and Empire explorers who took advantage of the lack of manned borders in the 1930s to explore the deserts of North Africa using battered 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 fictionalised in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Libyan Sands is unmistakably the world of an Englishman, a modest, machine and desert loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to ground-breaking exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the Second World War.

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Imprint:   Eland
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 214mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   290g
ISBN:   9781906011338
ISBN 10:   1906011338
Pages:   228
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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