Book ID: 10674
WILLIAMS, M.A.J. and H.FAURE (eds.)
The Sahara and the Nile. Environ- mental change in northern Africa during the past forty thousand years. 1980. 41 (1 col.) photos. figs. 4 maps. 640 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
Scope and aims of the book: Was the Sahara always dry?/ Did the Nilealways flow through the eastern Sahara to the Mediterranean Sea?/ Whenand why did early man begin to domesticate plants and animals in SaharanAfrica? - This book assembles recent evidence from geology, biology andarchaeology, examines the prehistoric links between our largest desertand our longest river, and throws new light on man's response toenvironmental change in northern Africa during the past 40.000 years.