Beyond the Last Oasis (Hardcover)

~ Ted Edwards (Author)

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From Library Journal

This is a journey with camels from Timbuktu in Mali westward around the edge of a sand dune area and into Mauritania. The book begins with three preliminary trips to the region in which the author presents himself as a low-budget adventurer with a capacity for discomfort and a desire to be (perhaps) the first person to make such a trip. Though there has been some great desert-travel writing, Edwards, a rather coarse writer and not a serious student of arid lands and peoples, is not in that league. While he gives a gripping and sometimes entertaining account, it is heavily cliched and thoroughly predictable. Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: Salem House Publishers (October 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881621250
• ISBN-13: 978-0881621259
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,310,373 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible book, filled with humour and adventure, January 31, 1999

By A Customer

Ted Edwards is one of the last great adventurers, as his experience shows in full detail. Armed with a love for life and what he hoped to be sufficient supplies, he set out across the Sahara, deepening his already-full respect for the desert and its inhabitants (whether they be scorpions, nomads, or camels). His is a fantastic story, which will bring any reader's yearning for exploration to the surface! I recommend it to anyone who has a zest for truly living.