St. Barbe Baker, Richard.

Sahara Challenge [The Sahara University Expedition 1952-1953] [Including “A map showing the route of the Expedition and the advance of the desert”].

London, Lutterworth Press, 1954. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 152 pages including a Bibliography and Index. With 54 illustrations and a map. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

Includes, for example, the following: Tamanrasset / The Touaregs / South of the Sahara / Kenya – Thirty Years After etc.
Baker, late assistant conservator of Forests in Kenya Colony and the Southern Provinces of Nigeria, led this Sahara University Expedition in the years 1952-1953, and travelled nine thousand miles from the Atlas mountains, across the bleak Ahaggar Plateau, through the desolate country of the Touareg, into Nigeria and to Lake Chad. From there the expedition travelled through the Congo and into Kenya.

Illustrations include: Neolithic carving of a hippopotamus / Rock paintings / The Ruins of the Roman city of Djemila / Figs and Apricots planted along the encampment / The Gorge of Arak / The Museum at El Golea / A successful coffee plantation near Nioka (Belgian Congo) / Pygmies greet the Expedition / Cutting a track in the foothills of the Ruwenzori Mountains / The twin peaks of Mount Kenya / Erosion in British Somaliland / A view of the Kigezi district of Kenya showing contour cultivation / The author’s Kikuyu friends / A new reservoir in Kenya / A Bedouin Reservoir in Kenya / A map showing the route of the Expedition and the advance of the desert etc.

Richard St. Barbe Baker OBE (9 October 1889 – 9 June 1982) was an English biologist and botanist, environmental activist and author, who contributed greatly to worldwide reforestation efforts. As a leader, he founded an organisation, Men of the Trees, still active today as the International Tree Foundation, whose many chapters carry out reforestation internationally.

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120124AB

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