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Chargement... Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World (édition 2011)par Ralph A. Bagnold (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Fascinating account of some of the first journeys undertaken with motor transport in the Egyptian and Libyan deserts, in the late 1920s and 1930s. Good description and detail of a group, some of whom served in the LRDG units in WWII, the forerunner of the SAS. ( ) The cover shows a picture of sand shaped in a large soft moving sand dune, and really the length of this book is about sand and the varriation of sand dunes that exist in regard to travel in a motor vehicle. There is of course a story, and the account of Bagnolds enthusiasm is what makes the read, as he was certainly a dedicated military man who sacrificed his home leave in the army to explore very inhospitable desert of north Africa. Bagnold then going on to form the S.A.S. of the British armed forces, and reading this book is a help to understanding how the alied forces and Britain won the 2nd world war. Being patient about reading of the technical data in this book, I still rate it highly as a wonderful contribution to the field of travel and describing how the military shaped and expanded its knowledge of the desert in order to fight that war and subsequent wars. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Ralph Bagnold was among a group of eccentric British explorers who in the 1930's explored the deserts of North Africa using 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 fictionalized in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Libyan Sands is an exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the Second World War. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)916.12History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Africa Tunisia; Libya; The Maghreb Generally LibyaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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