Shifting Sands
a human history of the sahara
$45.11
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2025
Summary
Shifting Sands: Unveiling the Real Sahara
Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses eleven countries and is home to millions.
This sweeping account upends old fantasies, revealing the far more interesting reality of the Earth’s largest hot desert. Drawing on decades of research, and years spent living in the region, anthropolo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788166454 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788166450 |
| Author: | Judith Scheele |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 156mm x 38mm |
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Praise for Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara:‘An irresistible read … something particular and intensely human’ - Deborah Harrold‘An academic page-turner … brilliantly written and thrilling to read’ - Roman Loimeier‘A must-read for anyone interested in the region’ - Ghislaine Lydon - University of California, Los Angeles‘Scholarship is impressive, arguments convincing; this is the book many who know the Sahara will wish they had written’ - E. Ann McDougall - University of Alberta
About The Author
Judith Scheele
Judith Scheele is professor of social anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. She has carried out extensive field research in Algeria, Mali and Chad, and published highly acclaimed books and articles on Saharan societies past and present, including Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara.
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