Chasing the Lizard's Tail

By Bicycle Across the Sahara (Travellers' Tales)

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Chasing the Lizard's Tail

By Bicycle Across the Sahara (Travellers' Tales)

A travelogue describing an eighteen-year-old's first encounter with Africa… alone by bicycle from Manchester (UK) to the Gambia, straight across the western Sahara (Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania), all for no other reason than that it sounded like a good idea at the time. Interwoven in the narrative of the life-changing experience are the histories and cultures of the people of northwestern Africa.

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Publisher
Impact Books Ltd
Language
English
Pages
320

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Chasing the Lizard's Tail: By Bicycle Across the Sahara (Travellers' Tales)
April 1, 1996, Impact Books Ltd
Paperback in English

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First Sentence

"Four wheezy old men in wrinkled grey and brown jellabas sit silently around the café table beside me, sipping coffee and smoking kif marijuana from carved cherry-wood pipes."

Table of Contents

1. The Rif Mountains
2. Fès
3. The Atlas Mountains
4. The Tafilalt
5. The Moroccan Sahara
6. The Western Sahara
7. Mauritania
8. The Adrar Mountains
9. Chasing the Lizard's Tail
10. Nouakchott and the Sahel
11. Senegal
12. Dakar
13. The Gambia and Banjul

Edition Notes

The original publisher went bankrupt around 2000. Since then the full text of Chasing the Lizard's Tail has been freely accessible online at http://www.bluegecko.org/lizard/, courtesy of the author.

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London

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
320

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Open Library
OL8655508M
Internet Archive
chasinglizardsta0000jens
ISBN 10
1874687366
ISBN 13
9781874687368
Library Thing
1306274
Goodreads
1067640

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