The Conquest of the Sahara

An elucidating study of France’s colonial occupation in the central Sahara in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “Everything a book should be—an adornment for your home, a blitz of information for your brain, a diversion and a hoot, and, finally, balm for your soul.” — The Los Angeles Times “A bravura account . . . Readers with a taste for exotic popular history will savor Porch’s wry sense of irony.” — Newsweek in The Conquest of the Sahara , Douglas Porch tells the story of Fra