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These 3 items are available for $40, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXNAF07)

Sahara, The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert  •  Sheila Hirtle  •  Marq de Villiers NATURAL HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 326 PAGES A chronicle of the geography, history and nature of the Sahara. The author (who has also written about water) combines travelogue, science and archaeology in this informative report. In the second half of the book de Villiers brings in the great cities and civilizations of the Sahara. With a few black-and-white photographs, notes and bibliography. A Canadian journalist (whose family has roots in South Africa), de Villiers draws on travels through North Africa in the 1970s with his collaborator Sheila Hirtle. (NAF13, $14.00)
A Traveller's History of North Africa  •  Barnaby Rogerson HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 408 PAGES A brief history of Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya through the 1990's -- wide-ranging, accessible and effectively condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries. Read it as an overview. (NAF01, $15.95)
Libya Map  •  ITMB 2006 •  MAP This full-color detailed traveler's map (at a scale of 1:2,650,000) shows not only roads, but also tracks, railways, archaeological sites, and oil and gas pipelines. With an inset street plan of Tripoli, shaded relief showing topography, index, glossary of Arab terms and travel information. Printed on waterproof, tear-resistant paper. One Side. 27x39 inches. (NAF32, $10.95)

Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome  •  Christopher Scarre   • HISTORY  •  A vivid overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and its expansion throughout North Africa and the Mediterranean. Illustrated with ingenious color maps on many topics (political borders, trade, defense, religion) and 80 color photographs. (ITL29, $16.95)
Rome in Africa  •  Susan Raven   • HISTORY  •  Long the standard history of Roman influence in Northern Africa, this book is scholarly and comprehensive. It is a wonderfully written, illustrated introduction to the geographic setting, the rise of Carthage, historical personalities, individual trading centers and archaeological sites. (NAF04, $49.95)
The Berbers  •  Michael Brett  •  Elizabeth Fentress   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A comprehensive overview of the indigenous people of North Africa from antiquity through the Roman and Islamic periods to modern times. Surveys the history, literature and culture of the Berbers, exploring the identity they have forged in the region. (NAF02, $46.95)
The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?  •  John L. Esposito   • RELIGION  •  An insightful survey of Islam, its history and contemporary politics. (ISL03, $19.99)
The Lost Oasis, The Desert War and the Hunt for Zerzura  •  Saul Kelly   • HISTORY  •  A well-researched, detailed account of exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s -- and the subsequent Long Range Desert Group. (NAF21, $16.95)
Ancient Rome: Art, Architecture, and History  •  Ada Gabucci   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A lively, illustrated survey of ancient Rome, its monuments, history and art. (ITL419, $19.95)
Desert Divers  •  Sven Lindqvist   • EXPLORATION  •  A lyrical account of Lindqvist's travels through the Sahara, taking as its theme the stereotypes and racial prejudices of Andre Gide, Antoine de St. Exupery and other literary idols who found inspiration in the desert. (NAF12, $12.95)
Eastern Approaches  •  Fitzroy MacLean   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Fitzroy MacLeans's action-packed account of his amazing adventures undercover in the Central Asian Republics of the USSR during Stalin's reign, as a commando in the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa, and with the Partisans in Yugoslavia during World War II. Touted as the real-life inspiration for James Bond, Maclean is not only a terrific writer but an eyewitness to historic events. Originally published in 1949. (CAS48, $30.00)
Sahara Unveiled, A Journey across the Desert  •  William Langewiesche   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Traveling across the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, Langeweische has written an uncommonly good memoir of the desert, with meditations on its history, inhabitants and allure. (NAF05, $16.00)
Skeletons on the Zahara, A True Story of Survival  •  Dean King   • EXPLORATION  •  King weaves a gripping tale of Captain James Riley and the men of the merchant ship Commerce, shipwrecked, captured and sold into slavery in 1815. King relies on published journals and his own travels to recreate the drama and hardship of the four-month trek across the Sahara. (NAF16, $14.99)
South from Barbary, Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara  •  Justin Marozzi   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The blistering account of a three-month-long, 1,500-mile journey by camel through the deserts of Libya on the old slave route by an ill-equipped and ornery British journalist and his companion. Marozzi interweaves politics and history with his tale of modern adventure. (NAF23, $14.99)
Sufferings in Africa, The Astonishing Account of a New England Sea Captain Enslaved by North African Arabs  •  James Riley   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The classic tale of a shipwrecked and enslaved captain in North Africa, first published in 1817. (NAF15, $14.95)
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century  •  Ross E. Dunn   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A modern historian's account of Ibn Battuta's travels in the medieval Islamic world. When Battuta left his native Morocco in 1325, he intended a pilgrimage to Mecca; however his travels ultimately took him as far as Mali in the west and Malaysia in the east, stopping in China, the Middle East, and Africa en route. (AFR103, $21.95)
Travels with a Tangerine, From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler  •  Tim MacKintosh-Smith   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A captivating, well-informed account of travels in the footsteps of the Medieval pilgrim and world traveler Ibn Battuta from Tangiers to Constantinople via Egypt, Syria, Oman, Anatolia, and the Crimea. (NAF26, $14.95)
Wind, Sand and Stars  •  Antoine de Saint Exupery   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  St. Exupery's luminous account of flying early postal routes over South America, Europe and the deserts of West Africa in the 1930s, including the classic tale of his crash in the Libyan desert. (DES11, $13.95)
Leo Africanus  •  Amin Maalouf   • LITERATURE  •  A fictional memoir of the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus, a Muslim whose travels led him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. (MED55, $16.95)
The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui, A Manual of Arabian Erotology  •  Umar Ibn Muhammad Nafzawi  •  Richard Francis Burton   • LITERATURE  •  A handbook to sex for married men of medieval Tunisia, this beautiful "pillow book" edition features 60 full-color illustrations. Written in the late 15th-century, it's one of the first works of erotic literature. (TUN17, $19.95)