Sahara Overland: A Route and Planning Guide (Trailblazer)

Sahara Overland: A Route and Planning Guide (Trailblazer)

by Chris Scott (Author)

Synopsis

The Sahara Desert remains one of the world's most fascinating and mysterious wildernesses. Looking beyond the romance of shimmering oases and magical dunes, this updated and expanded guide is a fully comprehensive handbook to understanding and exploring the world's greatest desert. Whether travelers are planning just a week's excursion in Morocco or a two-month trans-Saharan expedition Sahara Overland--A Route and Planning Guide offers all the essential advice, background information, and inspiration to complete their journey safely. Features include: *Documentation--what visitors need and how to get it *Choice of transport--4WD, motorcycle, bicycle, or even camel *Preparing the vehicle--without spending a fortune *Trans-Mediterranean ferries *Thirty-five off-road routes and detailed itineraries, many with GPS waypoints, covering 10,000 miles in nine countries (Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, and Egypt) *Improvising repairs, plus desert driving, and riding techniques *Navigation and survival--what to do when things go wrong *Background--Saharan peoples, pre-historic art, and land forms *300 b&w photographs and 30 color photographs *50 route maps and 2 pages of color maps

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Trailblazer Publications
Published: Oct 2004

ISBN 10: 1873756763
ISBN 13: 9781873756768

Media Reviews
A good chunky guide that gets right to the heart of desert travel. --Michael Palin I ran across your Sahara Overland book in a bookstore in Sacramento, California and bought it without a second thought. Thank you for putting together the most useful book I've ever encountered on travelling in this part of the world. --Lawrence Beck The essential Sahara guide. --The Sunday Times (United Kingdom) Desert Bible. --Land Rover International I'm not going to mince words here, this book is THE essential desert companion for anyone planning a Saharan desert trip. --Trailbike Magazine (United Kingdom)
Author Bio
Chris Scott first visited the Sahara on a motorcycle in 1981, describing this and his other eventful trips in Desert Travels. Since then he's traveled in the desert with cars, 4WDs and small trucks as well as both organizing and joining tours to the Sahara. He's also written the Adventure Motorcycling Handbook, also from Trailblazer, and covered the sandy regions for the Rough Guide to Australia. He maintains the Sahara Travel Information (STI) website (sahara-overland.com).