The Nomad's Path

Travels in the Sahel

Alistair Carr

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Tauris Parke Paperbacks
21 April 2017

Memoirs; African history; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Classic travel writing

The Manga is one of Africa’s most remote and wild regions: a hostile and unforgiving landscape inhabited by nomads like the hardy Tubu.

Situated in south-eastern Niger, and in the shadow of the Old Salt Road, it has been mislaid by the modern world; no Caucasian had been seen there in living memory.

The Nomad's Path is an account of a journey across this inhospitable region with former Tubu rebels at a time of Tuareg insurgency, when explosions from landmines rocked towns, mountains were overrun with militia and journalists were being thrown into desert prisons for speaking to rebel leaders.

Framed against this volatile atmosphere, The Nomad's Path is the beginning of a wider enterprise: the exploration of the region’s history and the ongoing consequences of the Tuaregs’ 1885 disenfranchisement.

It explores the centuries-old link between the Barbary Coast and the Sahel along the Old Salt Road, once trodden by corsairs and slaves, camels and the armies of empires, while conjuring to life a lost wilderness and those who survive within it.

At its heart, however, is a journey across the Sahel with the Tubu nomads.

It is their tale and a window into the nebulous Manga. Carr perceptively observes Tubu culture, their harmonious relationship with Islam and their interaction with the Manga’s other peoples: the Fulani, Kanuri and Arabs.

Woven with tales of rebellion, lost settlements and civilizations, explorers - both intrepid and mad - and an epic seventeenth century odyssey, Carr captures a sense of the intangible nature of the Sahel’s Manga.

It is a timely and evocative portrait of the Tubu and their world - a people living on the tide-line of the Sahara and the edge of the world.

By: Alistair Carr
Imprint: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9781788310758
ISBN 10: 1788310756
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 21 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Nomad's Path Epilogue Glossary The Call to Prayer Ritual Prayer Maps

Alistair Carr, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, has broadcast for the BBC and is author of The Singing Bowl - Journeys through Inner Asia. He lives in coastal Suffolk.

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The Nomad's Path

Travels in the Sahel

Alistair Carr

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