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"There is a land where sand reigns and water is as precious as gold. Where scorpions burrow, oasis pools glisten, and the sun relentlessly beats down. This is a place where pharaohs and queens once ruled, and traders journeyed by camel caravan. Get ready to explore the mightiest desert on Earth, a land of epic extremes where only the tough survive... Welcome to the Sahara."--Back cover.

In this exhausting journey, Michael will pass through the rock of Gibraltar to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, and beyond. His route takes him across sand-seas, along treacherous rivers, through oases, and over mountain ranges.

"A brutal conflict in Mali and an international race for rare elements sets the stage for Troy Pearce and his drone technology to rescue an old friend in this adrenaline-fueled series. Blue Warrior is set in the remote Sahara Desert, where a recently discovered deposit of strategically indispensable Rare Earth Elements (REEs) ignites an international rush to secure them. Standing in the way are the Tuaregs, the fierce tribe of warrior nomads of the...

"An exhilarating thriller set against a 250-mile foot race in the Sahara Desert, where at least one ultramarathoner is running for her life. Adrienne Wendell was once an exceptional ultramarathoner, a runner whose times were within striking distance of setting records. Years ago, she gave it all up when her son Ethan was hit by a car while she was in a race and unable to come to his help. He survived, but it horrified her that she had not been around...

In the context of one day in the Sahara Desert, introduces the animals and plants that live there and describes how they coexist to form a working ecosystem.

Oasis of the living dead: Robert, a student at an English university, receives word of his father's unexpected death and returns home to Africa. While reading his father's dairies, Robert learns of the obsession that led to his death: $6,000,000 in Nazi gold that remains buried at an oasis in the Sahara desert, guarded by the restless, rotting souls who died protecting it. Using his inheritance, Robert bands together with three fellow students to...

"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...

It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great change has happened all over the planet, and the laws of physics aren’t what they used to be. Within all this, I introduce you to Ejii Ugabe, a child of the worst type of politician. Back when she was nine years old, she was there as her father met his end. Don’t waste your tears on him: this girl’s father would throw anyone under a bus to gain power. He was a cruel, cruel...