num_pages: 296
description: 10 black and white photos; 2 maps 281 Pages In this classic of travel writing, first published sixty years ago, a Danish journalist records his experience of life in North Africa under colonial rule. Driving through the Sahara in a battered Chevrolet, having converted to Islam and with a knowledge of Arabic, he leaves the beaten track to discover communities and landscapes shrouded in mystery for centuries. Brushes with magicians, cave-dwellers and Sufi mystics, however, prove less astonishing than the cruelties inflicted on the local populations by Mussolini s generals.
language: English
title: Desert Encounter
titlecomplete: Desert Encounter
genres: Travelogue, Biography, Adventure, Memoir, Libya, Nonfiction, Travel, History, Islam, Africa
ratings_count: 286
publisher: Quilliam Press