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  The Sahara: A Cultural History - Eamonn Gearon - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=TKh_21ZERH4C&pg=PA43

  The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and camel trains trudging through…

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  Imperial Footprints: Henry Morton Stanley's African Journeys - James L. Newman - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=6Meh0G0OVfkC

  “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” The man who uttered those famous words was compared with Christopher Columbus in his day and became one of the late nineteenth century’s most newsworthy figures. Yet, one hundred years after Henry Morton Stanley’s death, his…

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