Three years ago Magsie Hamilton Little gave up her home and travelled to the Hoggar mountains in central Saharan Africa to rethink her life. There, to everyone's surprise - not least her own - she found herself buying and adopting a sick camel called Fleabag. This is an account of her journey deep into nomadic culture as she sought to heal Fleabag with the help of her guide, Samir, and his father, Suleyman,...

THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time. Troubled by challenges her own South of France farm is experiencing, Carol realises new approaches to farming are becoming essential. Her quest tak...

Western Africa at 1:3,400,000 on an indexed, double-sided map from ITMB providing coverage of the whole of Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, plus most of Algeria and the western parts of Niger and Nigeria. The map is double-sided, dividing the region north/south with a small overlap between the sides, a...

Winner of the 2017 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award's Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing Of all Michael Palin’s epic voyages around the world, his Sahara trip was perhaps the most challenging. Shrugging aside the perils of camel stew and being run over by the Paris-Dakar rally, Palin discovers that, far from being an empty wasteland, the vast and merciless Saharan desert is, ...

Northern Africa at 1:3,400,000 on an indexed, double-sided map from ITMB with topography presented by altitude colouring. The map divides the region east/west with a tiny overlap between the sides, extending from the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara to Sinai and the Red Sea coast of Egypt. On its western side coverage extends just south of the Bordj Mokhtar border crossing between southern Algeria and Mali,...

The Sahara Desert at 1:3,400,000 on an indexed, double-sided map from ITMB. Coverage extends southwards from approx. 30ºN within Morocco (Agadir) and 33ºN elsewhere (Ourgla in Algeria, Tripoli in Libya and Alexandria in Egypt) to approx. 16ºN (Timbuktu in Mali and Agadez in Niger). West / east the map covers the region from the coastline of Western Sahara and Nouakchott in Mauritania to the Abu Simbel templ...

Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society wrote of the author, in his book "Sahara": 'Tom Sheppard, doyen of the desert.' '...a passion...for this part of the Algerian desert'; '...quick, elfin-like energy'; '...boyish...'. Sheppard's passion, sense of wonder and energy show through in this book. Algeria is bigger than Western Europe but the Sahara's landscapes are known to few. This book i...

'I've just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and - Pasadena. We're going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world. We can have the world!' Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pi...

Officially about the hold the Sahara has over the western psyche, Sven Lindqvist’s short book continually evokes the starkness, harshness and loneliness experienced there. He also intertwines a memoir of his childhood and youth, remembered while he’s out in the sun-drenched wasteland, as well as examining the tragicomic aspects of colonialism.

After liberating itself from French colonial rule in one of the twentieth century's most brutal wars of independence, Algeria became a standard-bearer for the non-aligned movement. By the 1990s, however, its revolutionary political model had collapsed, degenerating into a savage conflict between the military and Islamist guerillas that killed some 200,000 citizens. In this lucid and gripping account, Martin...

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis farmers, and learns about the habits of djinns; she encounters...