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A Human History of the Sahara

By: Judith Scheele

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eBook | 8 May 2025

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This is the story of the Sahara as you've never seen it before

'Captivating and indispensable' Max Samson, author of Invisible Lines

'A fascinating and intimate perspective of the region from the ground-up'
Barnaby Rogerson, author of In Search of Ancient North Africa

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, anthropologist Judith Scheele takes us from Libya to Mali, Algeria to Chad, from the ancient Roman Empire to contemporary regional battles and fraught international diplomacy, questioning every easy cliche and exposing fascinating truths along the way.

From the geology of the region, to the life it shelters, to the religions, languages and cultural and political forces that shape and fracture it, this is a landmark work that tells the compelling story of a place that sits at the heart of our world, and whose future holds implications for us all.