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    Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World
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    Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World

    By R.A. Bagnold

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    In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in Egypt began to explore the Western Desert which straddles the borders with Libya and the Sudan. Adapting a series of Model T Fords, Bagnold and his colleagues set out across territory hitherto traversed only by camel caravans. They mapped new routes across 'impassable' sand seas, in 'regions untrodden by man since the Stone Age'. They also uncovered inner strengths, an awed respect for the stern and beautiful environment and a tender relationship with the machines upon which their lives depended. Their knowledge went on to play a crucial part in the North African campaign during the Second World War. For these men formed the nucleus of the celebrated LRDG, the Long Range Desert Group, and the SAS. It is the quiet heroism of such men that is celebrated in Michael Ondaatje's triumphant novel, The English Patient.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEland Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9781780600277
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    • 4/5
      Fascinating account of some of the first journeys undertaken with motor transport in the Egyptian and Libyan deserts, in the late 1920s and 1930s. Good description and detail of a group, some of whom served in the LRDG units in WWII, the forerunner of the SAS.
    • 4/5
      The cover shows a picture of sand shaped in a large soft moving sand dune, and really the length of this book is about sand and the varriation of sand dunes that exist in regard to travel in a motor vehicle. There is of course a story, and the account of Bagnolds enthusiasm is what makes the read, as he was certainly a dedicated military man who sacrificed his home leave in the army to explore very inhospitable desert of north Africa. Bagnold then going on to form the S.A.S. of the British armed forces, and reading this book is a help to understanding how the alied forces and Britain won the 2nd world war. Being patient about reading of the technical data in this book, I still rate it highly as a wonderful contribution to the field of travel and describing how the military shaped and expanded its knowledge of the desert in order to fight that war and subsequent wars.