Title: Empires of sand
Description: A French balloonist crashes in the Sahara and returns to France with a Tuareg princess for a wife. They have a son, Moussa, who spends his childhood playing with Paul, his cousin. As men, the cousins meet on the battlefield in the desert, Moussa defending the Tuaregs from the invading French.
Subjects: Tuaregs, Fiction, History, Fiction, historical
Places: Paris (France), Western Sahara, Algeria
People: Paul François Xavier Flatters (1832-1881)
Time periods: 1830-1962, Siege, 1870-1871, To 1884, 19th century