Lawrie Raskin provides a photographic account of his fifty-two-day journey across the Sahara desert by camel to reach the city of Timbuktu, and provides facts about other aspects of life in North Africa.
Shares the authors' adventure of trekking across the Sahara to Timbuktu, describing the inside of a desert nomad's tent, the Sahara while riding a camel, eating customs and food preparation, salt mines, and other sights.
