Sahara (A Dirk Pitt Adventure) [Paperback]

Clive Cussler (Author)

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Publication Date: June 30, 2007

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Product Details

• Paperback: 568 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) (June 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416516336
• ISBN-13: 978-1416516330
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,298,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sahara by Clive Cussler, a Dirk Pitt Adventure, February 11, 2009

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SammyJo Hunt "Author/Grad Student" (UT USA) - See all my reviews

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Great book, very detailed, vintage Clive Cussler! A great read, and you can't put it down until you're through! Even though its 600 pages, its a fabulous read! In some ways, I really loved this book because of the attention to historical detail. It has a few places that are pretty graphic, but it wouldn't get you as hooked if it didn't make such an impression on the reader. Its a great read, and the tone of the novel reads very realistically, because though it is based upon extremes, what happens in the book COULD actually happen in real life. It was also a great basis for the MOVIE Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, and Steve Zahn. In some ways, the movie is fabulous too, though not as graphic in some depictions of events as those in the book. But, the movie does depart slightly from the book in order to create a great action story that can be neatly put into a 2 hour time slot. In many respects, both the book and the movie each have their own advantages. Either one you choose, or both, and you won't be sorry! Great family entertainment! Both are great additions to any home book or movie library!

2.0 out of 5 stars Not One of Cussler's Better Books, November 29, 2010

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This is a 400-page story in an 570-page book. Cussler has written far better, more concise, and effective drama. And the whole deal with Lincoln is for what again? And just how did that drive the main story forward? So, in the middle of the Sahara desert, they just happen upon both the lost flyer's plane (intact) and the cave with the iron-clad images? Okay...

5.0 out of 5 stars Thrillingly Exciting and Authentic Recreation of the Malian Sahara, One of Cussler's Most Appealing Action Novels, September 23, 2009

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C.-P. Gerald Parker (Abitibi region of Québec) - See all my reviews

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I have been reading Clive Cussler novels for many years and I can call myself a true fan of Cussler's pop fiction. Of course, Cussler does not aspire to the status of "belles lettres" (high-class literature worthy of study for its aesthetic value), but this author excels in his chosen genre of adventure ("action") novel and of books with plots that relate (at least in part) to sea-faring exploits or maritime curiosities. "Sahara" is among the best of Cussler's novels, among my very favourite of his exciting epics; only "The Mediterranean Caper", "Iceberg", and "Raise the Titantic" are as thrilling as "Sahara" is". There are few films based on Cussler novels, the only two of which I know being cinematic treatments of "Sahara", a great box-office success, and "Raise the Titanic" (a novel, hence the film too, whose plausibility suffers in retrospect only due to the discovery of the Titanic wreck well after Cussler had written his novel and after the film industry made a cinematic treatment of it). I read "Sahara" many years before the film came out. Both the novel and the film are "super"!

Cussler researches his subjects exceedingly well. The Tuaregs in "Sahara" are true to the life, religious beliefs and practices, and lore of this peculiar Muslim sect in Mali (e.g., whose men, rather than their women, wear an all-encompassing veil). Cussler's experience at sea, especially in exploring wrecks and naval mysteries, shows in all of his novels. Having been in the U.S. Navy myself (even having consorted for a few months with the "Navy Seals") during the Kennedy presidency in the early 1960s, I can appreciate the authenticity of Cussler's Naval and Maritime lore as he depicts it. In "Sahara" it takes the form of sub-plots that entail some expert manoeuvering under dangerous conditions of a small river craft vessel as well as the discovery of a marooned Confederacy warship.

The reader cannot go wrong with most of Cussler's novels especially those which were published before the present (21st) century began. "Sahara" makes a good point of departure in exploring the "Dirk Pitt" pop classics of Cussler's famously enjoyable 20th century output. If you liked the film treatment, you probably will enjoy the novel even more, if you are an avid reader of action fiction!