The Conquest of the Sahara - 2nd Edition by Douglas Porch (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <i>The Conquest of the Sahara</i>, 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.</p><p><i>The Conquest of the Sahara</i> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<i>The Conquest of the Sahara</i> is almost everything a book should be-an adornment for your home, a blitz of information for your brain, a diversion and a hoot, and, finally, balm for your soul." --<i>The Los Angeles Times</i></p><p>"A bravura account...Readers with a taste for exotic popular history will savor Porch's wry sense of irony." --<i>Newsweek</i></p><p>"In this admirable book, Douglas Porch sets the record straight." --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></p><p>"Porch is knowledgeable. . .and a fine writer with a dramatic style . . .[he] has done a superb job." --<i>The Boston Globe</i></p><p>"[Porch] presents a vivid blow-by-blow account of how this arid, inhospitable land was penetrated at a terrible cost." --<i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Douglas Porch</b> is a military historian and the author of <i>The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II</i> (FSG, 2003). He is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.</p>
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