Conquest of the Sahara
An elucidating study of France’s colonial occupation in the central Sahara in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
“Everything a book should be—an adornment for your home, a blitz of information for your brain, a diversion and a hoot, and, finally, balm for your soul.” —The Los Angeles Times
“A bravura account . . . Readers with a taste for exotic popular history will savor Porch’s wry...
An elucidating study of France’s colonial occupation in the central Sahara in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
“Everything a book should be—an adornment for your home, a blitz of information for your brain, a diversion and a hoot, and, finally, balm for your soul.” —The Los Angeles Times
“A bravura account . . . Readers with a taste for exotic popular history will savor Porch’s wry...
