Blogs in June 2021

TWICE 9th June 2021

Nim’s ex love returns from Silicon Valley, wanting a book from their childhood. She chucks him out. Moments later, he’s back again, one fingertip missing, claiming he’s the real Chris and that Nim’s first visitor was an imposter. Nim...

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Agents of the Wild 3: Operation Sandwhiskers 15th March 2021

Third in the AGENTS OF THE WILD series: fun-packed young fiction with wildlife conservation themes. Agnes and Attie – AGENTS OF THE WILD – are off to the Sahara Desert on a mission to rescue rare baby animals from...

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Valley Of The Casbahs: A Journey Across the Moroccan Sahara 20th July 2020

The four-hundred-and-fifty-mile long Draa River Valley in the Moroccan Sahara contains some of the most sumptuous oases and searing desert of the Arab world, starting in the moonscape gorges of the Anti Atlas Mountains through to a green sea...

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The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu 13th July 2020

London, 1788: a group of British gentlemen—geographers, scholars, politicians, humanitarians, and traders—decide it is time to solve the mysteries of Africa’s unknown interior regions. Inspired by the Enlightenment quest for knowledge, they consider it a slur on the age...

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Desert Travels: Motorcycle Journeys in the Sahara and West Africa 17th March 2019

Today, following decades of kidnappings, rebellions, banditry and associated terrorist activities, tourism has collapsed in the central Sahara. But it wasn’t always like that. The 1980s were a golden age of independent exploration. Post-colonial nations had yet to be...

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