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Call of the Desert : The Sahara

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This book is everything you need to look for the Sahara.

Although I admire the book's images (its main treasure), I'd love to see them being entitled and given a little story behind; instead the notes and titles are placed in the end of the book, provided with page numbers. Yet strangely the book has no pagination and that makes it difficult to find the right page after all.

The book is great. This book is also massive in size and weight so dont think you'll carry it around in a book bag or take to the beach. It is the stunning color photos that make the book. Some photos are of desolate desert expanses, but as the book points out, not all of the Sahara is vast sandy parched land. There are photos of urban centers and villages WITH WATER and some VERY cool photos of people who live in this desert. I liked the photos of old ruins, some from Roman times. Each page is a full photo. To read a description of the photo there is a section in the back of the book where a summary of the photo is provided. I was surprised at how few photo books like this are available, whether on the Sahara or other deserts. I gave this four stars because at the time I was considering purchasing this book it was priced at $38 and the next day when I decided to order it for some reason the price had jumped - significantly- to $50. But I ordered it anyway and I am glad that I did. If deserts are your thing, this is your book. As an aside, the author of this book also appears in an unrelated DVD as one of many commentators in a DVD called Sahara that I also ordered from Amazon and I also highy recommend that Sahara DVD. But for this desert book, just carrying it around will make you thirsty.