sahara

"Paleontologist Paul Sereno was searching for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert when he and his team found something else--the skull of a gigantic crocodile! This . . . animal was so big that it could eat dinosaurs. The team called it Supercroc. Follow along on this graphic adventure to find more Supercroc bones and discover how this huge dinosaur eater lived. Then, take a trip back in time to learn all about the creatures that lived alongside Supercroc and discover even more about paleontology"--Provided by publisher.

"Between the sixth and sixteenth centuries, trade flourished between sub-Saharan Africa and Arab cultures. Traders exchanged gold, slaves, cloth, and salt along the trans-Saharan routes. This trade was directly responsible for seismic shifts in African economies and the foundation of new empires. Trans-Saharan Trade Routes explores how this complex trade network shaped the history of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe."--Amazon.

Examines the world's largest desert Sahara, its formation, climate, desert life, early explorers, the people that live there and there stories and festivals.

Chronicles one thousand years of trading in the Sahara, describing how it became one of the world's greatest commercial highways, transporting gold, slaves, and other commodities and manufactured goods while spreading Mediterranean culture south into the Sudan.

"Will Joe be able to survive in the hot, scorching desert? In this exciting survival story, readers journey along with Joe as he searches for water and runs into a desert tribe."--Provided by publisher.

Describes what it would be like to ride across the Sahara Desert on a camel in search of a waterfall.

Follows a scientist and his team as they uncover a massive dinosaur graveyard in the Sahara Desert and discover the skeletons of two new species.

Describes the history, culture, and daily life of the four nomadic groups that make their homes in the Sahara Desert.

Presents an introduction to the desert, in simple text with illustrations, providing descriptions of the plants and animals that live in them.

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. The expedition was a fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory, native guides led the one-hundred man expedition into an ambush that stranded them without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Only a dozen malnourished men lived to tell their tale.