Empires of Sand explained
Empires of Sand is a 1999 novel by American writer David W. Ball. It tells the story of two cousins who grow up together in Paris but are separated during the Franco-Prussian War. The second half of the novel concerns their adventures in French Algeria, one cousin living with a Tuareg tribe, the other a French lieutenant on the real-life Flatters Expedition, an ill-fated mission initiated by the French government in 1881 to survey a railway route through the Hoggar region of the Sahara desert. Most of the expedition's members were slaughtered by the Tuareg.
Reviews
Reviews were generally positive.
- News: A tale of two cousins in the desert. Franscell . Ron. Christian Science Monitor. 1999-07-29 . 91 . 170 . 17. 0882-7729.
- (Book review) Empires of Sand . Duncan . Melanie . Booklist. June 1–15, 1999 . 95 . 19/20 . 1740. 0006-7385.
- (Book review) Empires of Sand . Publishers Weekly. June 14, 1999. 45.
- Book Reviews: Fiction. Ball, David. Empires of Sand. . Johnson . Cynthia . Library Journal. 1999-07-01 . 124. 12.
- Book: Book Review Digest . 2002 . H. W. Wilson Company . en . 97 . 95 .
- Web site: Empires of Sand by David Ball. www.fantasticfiction.com. 2020-10-28.
- Web site: en-US. Empires of Sand by David Ball : All About Romance %. All About Romance. 2020-10-28.
- Web site: ru-RU. Туареги - воинственные кочевники Сахары, которых никто не мог покорить – Мир Знаний. 3 February 2020 . Tuaregs - warlike nomads of the Sahara, whom no one could conquer - World of Knowledge . 2020-10-28. 2020-10-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20201020061859/https://mir-znaniy.com/tuaregi-voinstvennye-kochevniki-sahary-kotoryh-nikto-ne-mog-pokorit/ . live .
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