Sahara
Subtitle: the Atlantic to the Nile
By: [photographs] Alain Sébe, [text by] Berny Sébe ; [English translation produced by JMS Books LLP].
Contributors: Sébe, Berny.
Publisher: Hachette Illustrated
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Sahara -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.; Sahara -- Social life and customs.; Sahara -- Description and travel -- Pictorial works.; Sahara -- Description and travel.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: One of the greatest artistic photography collections of the Sahara, showing its people, the tribes, costumes, landscape and the fantastic light of the immense expanse straddling the Tropic of Cancer and running from the Atlantic Sea to the Nile Valley. Teaches about the culture from Layan to Morocco, via the Aswan in Egypt and crossing Tunisia, Algeria, and the lands of Libya.
Notes: Includes index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: The call of the desert; title: Morocco: the land of petrified seascapes; title: Tunisia: under the watchful eye of Tanit; title: Algeria: the harmony of the oases; title: Algeria: in the land of Ilaman; title: Algeria: nature, the architect; title: Algeria: the domain of the Ajjers Tuaregs; title: Algeria and Libya: pre-pharaonic sahara; title: Libya: stones, sand and water; title: Libya: on the other side of the horizon; title: Egypt: a barren plateau, an enchanted valley; title: Sailors of the sands.