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Please read and make a refission for you Best Read [ Impossible Journey ] Author [ Michael Asher ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Documenting the nine month journey in 1986 87 of Michael Asher, and his wife Marinetta, who at the time of departure has been married for 5 days The journey commenced in Mauritania, carrying on into Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and finishing in Egypt Changing camels a few times, and running through around ten guides before becoming frustrated and carrying out a few stretches alone.They became the first Europeans to cross Africa at it s widest point, travelling through the Sahara It is worth point Documenting the nine month journey in 1986 87 of Michael Asher, and his wife Marinetta, who at the time of departure has been married for 5 days The journey commenced in Mauritania, carrying on into Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and finishing in Egypt Changing camels a few times, and running through around ten guides before becoming frustrated and carrying out a few stretches alone.They became the first Europeans to cross Africa at it s widest point, travelling through the Sahara It is worth ...Two Against the Sahara, by Michael Asher Due to having lived on the Sahara Desert as a child, I find reading accounts of folks trekking the Sahara very interesting.Only married 5 days, Tom and his new wife, Mariantonietta, begin not only a new journey of marriage, but the journey of a lifetime, that few will ever experience, to cross the Sahar...I read this book over a decade ago, simply because I m a name ferret And sometimes the attempt to discover what a name really means will take you down an unexpected track.I had read Firebird and was surprised but nonetheless delighted when, towards the end, it morphed from thriller to science fantasy I had read Firebird for the simple reason I wanted to see if there was a relationship between the name Asher and a phoenix After all, Asher as a Hebrew name means happy but, as a surname, it prob I read this book over a decade ago, simply because I m a name ferret And sometimes the attempt to discover what a name really means will take you down an unexpected track.I had read Firebird and was surprised but nonetheless delighted when, towards the end, it morphed from thriller to science fantasy I had read Firebird for the simple reason I wanted to see if there was a relationship between the name Asher and a phoenix After all, Asher as a Hebrew name means happy but, as a surname, it probably wasn t Jewish in origin It had just enough possibilities and vague resonances to make Firebird worth checking out.Ok, there was lots there in symbolism and it was very self consistent but none of it was what I d expected I then went on to Eye of Ra and that self consistent symbolism deepened but the odd thing was that it wasn t the eponymous Ra Moving on to Rare Earth, I congratulated myself the moment I saw the cover here, at last, was the symbol I d fel...Asher is a modern day Thesiger Asher wrote Thesiger s biography , with a similar distrust of cars and a love for the desert and its people In 1986, accompanied by newly wed wife, Mariantonietta who photographed their journey , they succeeded in completing Geoffrey Moorhouse s failed attempt to cross the Sahara from Mauritania to the Nile Unlike Moorhouse The Fearful Void , the Ashers had worked in the desert for some years and the author was familiar with nomadic customs, selection of guide Asher is a modern day Thesiger Asher wrote Thesiger s biography , with a similar distrust of cars and a love for the desert and its people In 1986, accompanied by newly wed wife, Mariantonietta who photographed their journey , they succeeded in completing Geoffrey Moorhouse s failed attempt to cross the Sahara from Mauritania to the Nile Unlike Moorhouse The Fearful Void , the Ashers had worked in the desert for some years and the author was familiar with nomadic customs, selection of guides and the all important purchase and care of camels.Once underway they set a gruelling pace that even some of the guides found tough The mentally disorienting ego loss and intolerable stress they experienced towards the end of their trek comes close to some of The Sheltering Sky s themes It s as well to remember that countless Moors and other pilgrims may have completed the same crossing over the last thousand years As one perplexed Nigeran border official ruefully observed What will you westerners ...Would have given four stars, except that the ebook edition doesn t have any pictures Truly an epic trek, and the author s occasional literary flights are all theeffective for being embedded in a rather surly narrative evocative of the camels he and his decidedly mercurial wife rode and casual references to blasting heat, burning cold, scummy but precious water, a camel ossuary found in a rocky defile and like local color I skipped the passages about his developing marriage, and enjoye Would have given four stars, except that the ebook edition doesn t have any pictures Truly an epic trek, and the author s occasional literary flights are all theeffective for being embedded in a rather surly nar...Read long ago, but I recall this as a great story I do see I marked it up a bunch, and have to say I love this excerpt from Asher as one of the all time great descriptions of the love between a couple, especially a couple facing great danger and adventure together The man told us, From here to Wadi Howar you w...Talk about a honeymoon to remember Immediately following their marriage in London, Michael Asher and his wife Marianetta flew to Mauritania to set out on the first west east crossing of the Sahara by camel It was an unbroken journey of nine months and 4500 miles, and the first recorded crossing of the Sahara from west to east by non mechanical means Newswire service Reuters referred to it as the last great journey man had still to make The trip also made for epic travel w...The 1980s hardcover has very striking colour plates, photographs by Asher s wife Marionetta The 1980s seems a much happier time in the Arab World not sure Western travellers could happily make this journey today.

Impossible Journey
  • 23 December 2017
  • Paperback
  • 0140093605
  • Michael Asher
  • Impossible Journey