Call of the Desert: The Sahara | 
 enlarge | Author: Philippe Bourseiller
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 390644
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 424
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.9
Dimensions (in): 14.7 x 11.7 x 1.5
ISBN: 081095589X
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.600222
EAN: 9780810955899
ASIN: 081095589X
Publication Date: November 1, 2004
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Condition: NEW - excellent, clean condition, hard bound with dust jacket *** Publisher: Harry N Abrams, 2004 ed.
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Book Description
Sprawling over 3.5 million square miles, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, the Sahara is a mythical land, enchanting not only for its extreme beauty but also for its complex culture. Wrapping its arid terrain around Africa, this vast desert is shared, and sometimes fought over, by some dozen countries.
Enraptured by the desert's magical light and amazingly diverse terrain-its spectacular dunes, stone fortresses, and Edenic oases-photographer Philippe Bourseiller embarked on the first truly comprehensive photographic exploration of this enormous territory. Here, in 200 compelling images ranging from the white sands of Arguin (Mauritania) to the colorful banks of the Niger river (Mali), from the rock paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer (Algeria) to the lakes of Ennedi (Chad), Bourseiller communicates his powerful experience of the desert. A series of texts by Sahara specialists deepens our understanding of the history, people, and landscape of this fascinating area. An invitation to travel the Sahara, this beautiful book will attract fans of the region, of photography, and of world exploration. AUTHOR BIO: Philippe Bourseiller undertook six annual expeditions to the Sahara for four years, eventually compiling an enormous monograph of images of the world's biggest desert. A regular contributor to magazines and books and the photographer of Abrams' Volcanoes, he has been awarded the prestigious World Press Prize five times.
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 Amazing images June 7, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is everything you need to look for the Sahara.
Although I admire the book's images (its main treasure), I'd love to see them being entitled and given a little story behind; instead the notes and titles are placed in the end of the book, provided with page numbers. Yet strangely the book has no pagination and that makes it difficult to find the right page after all.
 Fantastic! Beautiful!! August 7, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is, by far, the most beautiful book I have ever seen published on any subject. The photographs are stunning. They give a real sense of what the Sahara must be like. All areas and forms the desert takes are included, as well as the people and life of the desert. If you have any interest in the Sahara or any desert at all, this book will only serve to enhance your knowledge and peak your interest! Buy it!
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