Sahara Overland A Route & Planning Guide

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 guide is a fully comprehensive handbook to understanding and exploring the world's greatest desert. Inside you'll find information on: documentation, what you need and how to get it; choice of transport; preparing your vehicle without spending a fortune; Trans-Mediterranean ferries; thirty-five off-road routes and detailed itineraries, many with GPS waypoints, covering 16,000km in nine countries; improvising repairs, plus desert driving and riding techniques; navigation and survival, what to do when things go wrong; background on the Saharan people, prehistoric art and land forms. Also included are 45 maps, 280 black and white photographs and 26 color photographs. (5 1/4 x 8 1/4, 544 pages, color photos, b&w photos, maps, charts, diagrams)Scott, Chris is the author of 'Sahara Overland A Route & Planning Guide' with ISBN 9781873756263 and ISBN 1873756267.