by Durou
ISBN: 9782810400089
Passion Sahara, les pionniers racontent leur désert (Book)
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Passion Sahara, les pionniers racontent leur désert / Passion Sahara, the pioneers tell their desert (Book) by Jean-Marc Durou. 2008. Like New, Infimes Traces On Jacket, Hardcover, 189 pages. Prisma Editions. French texts.
Théodore Monod, Heinrich Barth, Isabelle Eberhardt, Eugène Fromentin, René Caillié, Camille Douls, Conrad Kilian, Henri Duveyrier, Auguste Choisy, Maurice Cortier, Charles Toubeau de Maisonneuve, Paul Duclos, Edmond Bernus, Mano Dayak…. Adventurers, explorers, scientists or soldiers, these men and this woman have, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, participated in the history of the discovery of the Sahara.
This book brings together some of their most beautiful texts. They talk about fascination, silence, absolute beauty, the sun setting over the dunes, friendship between men, but also solitude, boredom, fear, violence… Illustrated with photos by Jean-Marc Durou, one of the greatest photographers and historians of the Sahara, this book is, more than a beautiful book on the desert, a true tribute to these pioneers who, sometimes at the risk of their lives, made it possible to discover one of the most magical and captivating places on our planet.
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