Sahara the great desert
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Columbia University Press
1935
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Beschreibung: | "Translated from the second French edition of E.-F. Gauthier's Le Sahara (Paris, Payot, 1928)--and from hitherto unpublished material supplied by the author": p. [iv] Bibliography at the end of most of the chapters The great desert -- Climate -- Organization of desert life -- Structural formation -- Fundamental laws of the desert surface relief -- The geological past -- Superficial circulation of the waters -- Progressive desiccation -- Oases and tanezroufts -- Introduction of the camel and its consequences -- Egypt -- The Tibbu Sahara -- Fezzan -- The Tuareg Sahara -- The new Sahara -- Glossary |
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Beschreibung: | xvii, 264 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates, maps (1 folded) 25 cm |