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  • THE LAST CARAVAN
    THURSTON CLARKE
    The Last Caravan is a powerful and dramatic account of how the great African drought of the early 1970s transformed the nomadic Tuareg, the famous blue-veiled men of the Beau Geste legend. Thurston Clarke recounts their story in his words and theirs, allowing them to come to life as they describe their sufferings and wanderings in search of food and comfort. Their story is a po...

    $119.00

  • EQUATOR
    THURSTON CLARKE
    Widely considered a jewel of contemporary travel literature,  Equator is Thurston Clarke's magnificent, witty account of his solo journey along the earth's torrid midsection—a grueling twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that spanned three years and as many continents. His was a perilous trek across an almost surreal landscape—where a first-class hotel appeared smack in the middl...

    $119.00

  • BY BLOOD AND FIRE
    THURSTON CLARKE
    On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem's King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory Government of Palestine. The ensuing explosion killed ninety-one Britons, Arab...

    $119.00