The Sword and the Cross

Viscomte Charles de Foucauld and Henri Laperrine and the lure of - take your pick: 'hostile emptiness', the exaggerated rumours of its wealth, a mystical desire for self-negation - the Sahara.

Publisher: Granta. Reprint
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Faint foxing to extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper.


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