Sahara the Great Desert / / E. F. Gautier.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1935] ©1935 |
| Year of Publication: | 1935 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SAHARA
- I. The Great Desert
- II. Climate
- III. Organization of Desert Life
- PART II. PHYSICAL EXISTENCE OF THE SAHARA PRESENT AND PAST
- IV. Structural Formation
- V. Fundamental Laws of the Desert Surface Relief
- VI. The Geological Past
- VII. Superficial Circulation of the Waters
- VIII. Progressive Desiccation
- IX. Oases and Tanezroufts
- PART III. HISTORY OF THE SAHARA
- X. Introduction of the Camel and Its Consequences
- PART IV. REGIONS OF THE SAHARA
- XI. Egypt
- XII. The Tibbu Sahara
- XIII. Fezzan
- XIV. The Tuareg Sahara
- PART V. CONCLUSION
- XV. The New Sahara
- Glossary
- Index