The Lost Oases, Etc. [Travels in the Libyan Desert. With Plates, Including Portraits.].
Author : Aḣmad Muḣammad ḢASANAIN (Bey.)
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Aḣmad Muḣammad ḢASANAIN (Bey.)
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : A. Hassanein Bey
Publisher : Long Riders Guild Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2006-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781590481462
Despite their dangerous appeal, there are a few desolate places in the world that call to a man, daring him to return to their deadly beauty again and again. The world s last unexplored desert held such an allure for the remarkable author of this book. At the dawning of the 20th century the vast desert of Libya remained one of last unexplored places on Earth. Because travel was restricted by the distance camels could trek between wells, vast portions of the Libyan interior were still blank spots on the map. Enter Sir Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein, the dashing Egyptian diplomat turned explorer. Having befriended the Muslim leaders of the elusive Senussi Brotherhood who controlled the deserts further on, Hassanein became aware of rumours of a lost oasis which lay even deeper in the desert. In 1923 the explorer led a small caravan on a remarkable seven month journey across the centre of Libya. More than two thousand gruelling miles later he emerged with marvellous tales of having not only located the lost oasis of Uweinat, but having also discovered a cave which contained ten-thousand-year-old drawings. Attributed to djinns, these Paleolithic images depicted a flourishing, but now extinct, pastoral world inhabited by giraffes, ostriches, gazelles, even cows, but no camels. Yet the most startling image depicted human beings swimming in what had become a forbidding desert. Amply illustrated with photographs taken by the author, this is a timeless account of a hazardous journey across the great sand sea.
Author : Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Libyan Desert
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Author : Ahmed Hassanein Bey
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Page : 363 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein Bey
Publisher :
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Libyan Desert
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1961
Category : English imprints
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1961
Category : English imprints
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Author : Cassandra Vivian
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789774160905
Already the most comprehensive guide ever for desert and oasis travel in Egypt west of the Nile, The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer's Handbook has now been fully revised and updated for the latest generation of twenty-first century desert adventurers. Fully illustrated with some 50 maps and plans and over 270 drawings, the guide covers both the natural history and the human history of the desert and the oases. It then explores chapter by chapter the oases of Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Bahariya, Fayoum, and Siwa, and the desert areas of al-Diffa (the northern, semiarid edge of the desert), the Darb al-Arbain caravan route in the south, and Uwaynat (including Gilf Kebir) in the southwest. Descriptions of routes, sites, people, and places are complemented by practical information on places to stay, eat, and fill your gas tank. Global positioning system (GPS) waypoints are provided as an aid to navigation on many routes--though for the sake of conservation and the protection of unguarded antiquities they are not given for remote sites. Almost encyclopedic in its scope, this is the one guide that belongs on the bookshelf, dashboard, or rucksack of every Western Desert traveler.
Author : Ármin Vámbéry
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Chris Scott
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sahara
ISBN : 9781873756768
Whether readers are traveling by 4WD or camel, this acclaimed guide covers all aspects Saharan and includes 10,000 miles of itineraries in Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, and Egypt.