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    The Conquest of the Sahara: A History
    The Conquest of the Sahara: A History
    The Conquest of the Sahara: A History
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    The Conquest of the Sahara: A History

    By Douglas Porch

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    In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century.

    Focusing on the conquest of the Ahaggar Tuareg, a Berber people living in a mountain area in central Sahara, he goes on to describe the bizarre exploits of the desert's explorers and conquerors and the incompetence of the French military establishment. Porch summons up a world of oases, desert forts and cafés where customers paid the dancer by licking a one-franc piece and sticking it on her forehead.

    The Conquest of the Sahara reveals the dark side of France's "civilizing mission" into this vast terrain, and at the same time, weaves a rich tale of extravagant hopes, genius and foolhardiness.

    Editor's Note

    Fitzcarraldo in the Sahara...

    A history for people who love misguided adventures. Porch has written a Saharan Fitzcarraldo, relating the monumental hubris, national pride & gross incompetence that marked France’s efforts to colonize the desert.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 22, 2005
    ISBN9781429922098
    The Conquest of the Sahara: A History
    Author

    Douglas Porch

    Douglas Porch is a military historian and the author of The Conquest of Morocco and The Conquest of the Sahara (FSG, 2005). He is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

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      Colonialism was the maddest thing. This book details some of the folly of the French "acquisition' of the Sahara. The strengths and weaknesses of some great characters. Their struggle with the harshness of the desert and its people.

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