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Africa  •  Michael Lewis  •  John Reader   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An informative survey of the geography, culture and wildlife of Africa featuring 175 color photographs and accompanying text by John Reader; organized geographically. (AFR111, $50.00)
 
 
Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel  •  Jeffrey Tayler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The eye-opening account of an American journalist's trek across the Sahel, the southern region of the Sahara Desert, which encompasses Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, Chad and Senegal. (WAF83, $25.00)
 
 
Empires of Sand  •  David Ball   • LITERATURE  •  A rousing tale inspired by the French attempt to build a railroad across the Sahara in 1880. It's a page-turner in the grand style, mixing up French colonial ambitions, the nomadic Tuareg and romance. (NAF33, $7.99)
 
 
The Gates of Africa, Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu  •  Sattin Anthony   • HISTORY  •  An engaging chronological history of the adventures and explorations of the African Association which, starting in 1788, set out into the Sahara, onto the Nile and Niger Rivers, and searched for the legendary city of Timbuktu. (AFR145, $27.95)
 
 
Lonely Planet West Africa  •   Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to all West Africa, this is the book to carry for travels from Mauritania to Niger, with both a good overview of culture and history and the usual Lonely Planet attention to practical travel information. (WAF10, $31.99)
 
 
Sahara & Environs Map  •   ITMB    •  A map of the Sahara desert and environs, extending from Sudan north to the Mediterranean. At a scale of 1:2,200,000 it's the most detailed map of this swath of Africa. (AFR158, $10.95)
 
 
 




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