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A new volume in the Society for Studies series Short North African Histories, this book brings togeher the best stories of intrepid desert drivers in the early 20th century, crossing the vast and sometimes dangerous expances of the Sahara. The exploration of the Sahara - a huge swathe of terrain, the size of India - by motor car is one of the untold chapters in the story of 20th century exploration. This revised version of the successful title Wheels Across the Desert, looks at the intrepid drivers who crossed the desert in the early 20th century - bothmilitary and civilian.

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Professor Andrew S. Goudie is former Master of St Cross College, Oxford, and since 1984 has been Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He has been President of the International Association of Geomorphologists, has a DSc from the University of Oxford, is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, and is a recipient of the Founder’s Medal of the RGS and of the Mungo Park Award of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2007 he received the Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research from the Geological Society of America.

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