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02516aam a2200385Ma 4500 001 6CE6379AB3CA11E7A4A7F53E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171018010126 008 120607r20122007nyub b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1616085940 020 $a 9781616085940 035 $a (OCoLC)795760777 040 $a OS3 $b eng $c OS3 $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d GRR $d SILO 043 $a fd----- $a fd----- 050 14 $a HE3412 $b .A674 2012 082 $a 385.0966 $b A8251d 100 1 $a Asher, Michael, $d 1953- 240 10 $a Sands of death 245 10 $a Death in the Sahara : $b the lords of the desert and the Timbuktu railway expedition massacre / $c Michael Asher ; foreword by Dean King. 260 $a New York : $b Skyhorse Pub., $c ©2012. 300 $a xviii, 286 pages : $b map ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Originally published: Sands of death. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. 505 0 $a Foreword by Dean King -- A note on transliteration -- Prologue -- Terra incognita -- An ocean of lies -- 'Avenge flatters!' -- Epilogue -- Postscript. 520 0 $a "In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu in French Sudan to Paris. This trek should have heralded a new era of French prosperity. Instead it was a deadly fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory and foolishly employing the enemy as guides, the one-hundred-man expedition was ambushed and stranded without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Many men were killed outright, and for four months the survivors were menaced by the vicious Tuareg, the "lords of the desert," who robbed and starved them and tricked them into eating poisoned fruit. To escape, they hid in the wastelands of the Sahara with little hope of finding food or water. Desperation drove them to eat their own dead, or, worse, the weakest members of their group. Only a dozen malnourished men lived to tell their tale."--Hardcover dust jacket flap. 650 0 $a Railroads $z Algeria $x History. 650 0 $a Railroads $z Sahara $x History. 650 7 $a Railroads. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01088711 651 7 $a Algeria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205459 651 7 $a Sahara. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242088 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l N2AX314 $d 20210728020747.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6CE6379AB3CA11E7A4A7F53E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b DIVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search