num_pages: 186
description: This is the account of an adventure-with-a-purpose, which explains why Mr JB Priestley hails it as an 'exciting records and a powerful contribution to our idea of a world society.' Calder was sent out as a one-man Unesco inquiry to report on the progress of the struggle to halt and where possible to throw back the encroachment of the desert.
language: English
title: Men Against the Desert
publisher: George Allen and Unwin