Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

9 best books like Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert (William Langewiesche): Agent Running in the Field, Fog Magic, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia, Monty Python Speaks!, David Bowie: A Life, Road Fever, An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Agent Running in the Field

Author	John le Carré
ISBN	1984878875

A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré

Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...

Fog Magic

Author

Julia L. Sauer

Originally published in 1943, this edition features a rare cover by the ground-breaking illustrator Lynd Ward.

Greta had always loved the fog—the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was...

Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea

Author

Eric Hansen

In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.

As...

Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

Author	Tony Horwitz
ISBN	0452267455

"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."-- The New York Times Book Review

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia...

Monty Python Speaks!

Author	David Morgan
ISBN	0380804794

Broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974, Monty Python’s Flying Circus introduced something completely different: a new brand of surrealistic, stream-of-consciousness comedy that pushed the traditional boundaries of format, style, and content. Blending brilliant satire with slapstick...

David Bowie: A Life

Author

Dylan Jones

Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic...

Road Fever

Author	Tim Cahill
ISBN	0394758374

What a road trip! So much of what Tim Cahill describes involves the preparation -- the paperwork, logistics, and financial backing -- that must be figured out before starting a marathon trip such as the one General Motors bankrolled. I understand he was trying to make a point, but I would've enjoyed the...

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

Author	Jason Elliot
ISBN	0312288468

Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people...

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Author	Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN	1541762118

When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our...