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| Preface and Acknowledgements | ||
| Maps | ||
| 1 | Absinthe and Barracks | 1 |
| 2 | A Painful Void | 20 |
| 3 | Into the Desert | 28 |
| 4 | Reconnaisance au Maroc | 41 |
| 5 | Senegalese Hooligans | 63 |
| 6 | The Monk's Friend | 78 |
| 7 | From Algiers to the Congo | 96 |
| 8 | 'Think that you are going to die a martyr' | 119 |
| 9 | Beni Abbes | 132 |
| 10 | Laperrine's Command | 156 |
| 11 | A Tour of the Interior | 167 |
| 12 | Towards the Hoggar | 184 |
| 13 | "I choose Tamanrasset' | 198 |
| 14 | White Marabout | 219 |
| 15 | Djanet | 238 |
| 16 | Hermit of Assekrem | 254 |
| 17 | 'It is the hour of my death' | 269 |
| 18 | Dune Flights | 283 |
| 19 | The Dying Days | 301 |
| Sources and References | 315 | |
| Bibliography | 333 | |
| Index | 336 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Bruno Sakowicz
reviewed Sword and the Cross: Two Men and an Empire of Sand on February 13, 2019
Sword and the Cross: Two Men and an Empire of Sand
Two men, the beatified monk Charles de Foucauld and General Francois-Henry Laperrine played a significant role in the effort to establish French dominance of the Sahara at the turn of the twentieth century, as France tried to unify Algeria with the French Sudan (now Mali.) There are two stars in this quite incredible story: the eremitic Foucauld and the unforgiving Sahara. The military and the Catholic Church united to extend French influence over a desert land, sparsely populated by independent Tuareg people. It's a story largely forgotten by history (or at least I certainly knew nothing at all about it) and it left a vivid impression of desert North Africa.
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Add Sword and the Cross: Two Men and an Empire of Sand, Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today's most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth ce, Sword and the Cross: Two Men and an Empire of Sand to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Sword and the Cross: Two Men and an Empire of Sand, Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today's most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth ce, Sword and the Cross: Two Men and an Empire of Sand to your collection on WonderClub |
