For six years after reading the account of the British North African expedition of 1818-20, Justin Marozzi had longed to cross the Libyan Sahara by camel. Captivated by the beauty of this little-known country on his first visit to Tripoli, he vowed to return to explore its vast desert along the old slave trade routes. South from Barbary - as nineteenth-century Europeans knew North Africa - is the compelling story of his 1,500-mile journey.
More than a travelogue, South from Barbary is a fascinating history of Saharan exploration and efforts by early British explorers to suppress the African slave trade, which many regarded as 'the most gigantic system of wickedness the world ever saw'. It evokes the poetry and solitude of the desert, the misery of the slave trade in action, the companionship of man and beast, the plight of a benighted nation and the humour and generosity of its resilient people.
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About the Author:
Justin Marozzi is assistant editor of the Spectator. He also writes for the Economist and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. He read History at Cambridge and has an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. This is his first book.
Review:
“... genuine exploration, the stuff from which all good travel books should be made.” -- The Times Literary Supplement
“In many ways, this is the perfect travel book.” -- Financial Times
“Unfailingly interesting and downright refreshing: travel–writing for true adventurers as well armchair ones.” -- Kirkus Reviews
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- PublisherHarper Uk
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 000257053X
- ISBN 13 9780002570534
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages365
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