Michael Asher, Author Overlook Press $37.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-87951-712-0
As an explorer and Arabist, Asher (Two Against the Sahara) is well equipped to add an interesting psychological dimension to the figure of T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935). Asher personally retraces the footsteps of Lawrence, as recounted in his classic...
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Michael Asher, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-312-00720-1
This is a gripping personal account of the devastating drought in East Africa, 198285. During three years of teaching in the Sudan, Asher spent most of his free time traveling in the desert with peoples of the Sahel and the desert fringes. But he...
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Michael Asher, Author, Dean King, Foreword by , foreword by Dean King. Skyhorse $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-60239-630-2
In 1880, the French government sent 100 men into the unexplored Sahara to scout the path for a possible railway from the coast. Here, Asher depicts a grim saga of treachery, endurance and slaughter along the way. In the desert, the expedition ran...
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