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Sahara Overland: A Route and Planning Guide par: Chris Scott Prix conseillé: EUR 37,50 Amazon.frPrix: EUR 35,63 Économisez : EUR 1.87 ( 5%)Les prix peuvent variés. |
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Disponibilité: Habituellement expédié sous 2 à 4 semaines
Reliure: Relié Numéro de décimal selon le système Dewey: 916 EAN: 9781873756768 ISBN: 1873756763 Label: Trailblazer Publications Fabricant: Trailblazer Publications Nombre de pages: 688 Date de publication: décembre 23, 2004 Editeur: Trailblazer Publications Studio: Trailblazer Publications Classement des ventes: 256754 Rechercher des produits similaires par rubrique:
Chroniques et points de vue: Review: "A good chunky guide that gets right to the heart of desert travel." --Michael Palin "I ran across your Sahara Overland book in a bookstore in Sacramento, California and bought it without a second thought. Thank you for putting together the most useful book I've ever encountered on travelling in this part of the world." --Lawrence Beck "The essential Sahara guide." --The Sunday Times (United Kingdom) "Desert Bible." --Land Rover International "I'm not going to mince words here, this book is THE essential desert companion for anyone planning a Saharan desert trip." --Trailbike Magazine (United Kingdom) Book Description: 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 updated and expanded guide is a fully comprehensive handbook to understanding and exploring the world's greatest desert. Whether travelers are planning just a week's excursion in Morocco or a two-month trans-Saharan expedition Sahara Overland--A Route and Planning Guide offers all the essential advice, background information, and inspiration to complete their journey safely. Features include: *Documentation--what visitors need and how to get it *Choice of transport--4WD, motorcycle, bicycle, or even camel *Preparing the vehicle--without spending a fortune *Trans-Mediterranean ferries *Thirty-five off-road routes and detailed itineraries, many with GPS waypoints, covering 10,000 miles in nine countries (Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, and Egypt) *Improvising repairs, plus desert driving, and riding techniques *Navigation and survival--what to do when things go wrong *Background--Saharan peoples, pre-historic art, and land forms *300 b&w photographs and 30 color photographs *50 route maps and 2 pages of color maps Publisher comments: Other 'Overland' Trailblazer titles include 'Asia Overland' and 'Istanbul to Cairo Overland'. And we even have a 'Honeymoon Guide' too! Back Cover copy: 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. All you need to plan the adventure of a lifetime Whether you're planning just a week's excursion in Morocco or a two-month trans-Saharan expedition Sahara Overland - a route and planning guide offers all the essential advice, background information and inspiration to complete your journey safely. · Documentation - what you need and how to get it · Choice of transport - 4WD, motorcycle, bicycle or even camel · Preparing your vehicle - without spending a fortune · Trans-Mediterranean ferries · Thirty-five off-road routes and detailed itineraries, many with GPS waypoints, covering 10,000 miles in nine countries (Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad and Egypt) · Improvising repairs, plus desert driving and riding techniques · Navigation and survival - what to do when things go wrong · Background - Saharan peoples, pre-historic art and land forms · 300 B&W photographs, 30 color photographs · 50 route maps; 2pp color map About the author: Chris Scott first visited the Sahara on a motorcycle in 1981, describing this and his other eventful trips in Desert Travels. Since then he's traveled in the desert with cars, 4WDs and small trucks as well as both organizing and joining tours to the Sahara. He's also written the Adventure Motorcycling Handbook, also from Trailblazer, and covered the sandy regions for the Rough Guide to Australia. He maintains the Sahara Travel Information (STI) website (sahara-overland.com). Excerpted from Sahara Overland, 2nd : A Route and Planning Guide by Chris Scott. Copyright © 2004. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.: To see the earth in its natural, elemental state, untouched by human endeavor, is a rare and humbling experience. From its sun-scorched plateaus to its sublime sand seas, the Sahara makes a strong and lasting impression. Few experiences can match the thrill of carving virgin tracks across a dune, drinking tea in a nomad's tent, or setting up camp beneath a cliff face fired red by the setting sun. Of course, in a world where telecommunications, signposts, piped water and emergency services are all taken for granted, the thought of visiting a region without these safety nets can be daunting. Even with satellite navigation, travel in the Sahara can be a demanding undertaking, and some will relish the return to civilization. But when you've tasted the exhilaration of driving for days through the desert, you'll find this satisfaction enhanced by an appreciation of your self-sufficiency and a growing confidence in your route-finding skills. Approaching your next supply point will always be a relief but once you arrive, even the languor of a small village will make you wish you'd lingered in the sands a little longer. Along with the ability to navigate competently, suitably prepared and provisioned transportation, be it with two wheels, four wheels or four legs and a hump, is vital to any desert venture. But this is something that is often miscalculated by the first-time visitor--it certainly was for me back in 1981. This is the book I wish I'd had then, offering guidelines as opposed to rules on exploring the desert. Advice on preparation takes up the biggest part of this book because, with the exception of organized tours, it will absorb the bulk of your time and money before you even reach the desert. It's followed by an outline of travel opportunities and detailed itineraries across the entire Sahara with accounts of what life on the piste is actually like. |
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