Empires of Sand
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[edit]
Reviews were generally positive.
- Franscell, Ron (1999-07-29). "A tale of two cousins in the desert". Christian Science Monitor. 91 (170). p. 17. ISSN 0882-7729.
- Duncan, Melanie (1999-06-01 - 1999-06-15). "(Book review) Empires of Sand". Booklist. Vol. 95 no. 19/20. p. 1740. ISSN 0006-7385. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - "(Book review) Empires of Sand". Publishers Weekly. June 14, 1999. p. 45.
- Johnson, Cynthia (1999-07-01). "Book Reviews: Fiction. Ball, David. Empires of Sand". Library Journal. Vol. 124 no. 12.
- Book Review Digest. 97. H. W. Wilson Company. 2002. p. 95. Search this book on
- "Empires of Sand by David Ball". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- "Empires of Sand by David Ball : All About Romance %". All About Romance. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- "Туареги - воинственные кочевники Сахары, которых никто не мог покорить – Мир Знаний" [Tuaregs - warlike nomads of the Sahara, whom no one could conquer - World of Knowledge] (in русский). Archived from the original on 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2020-10-28. Unknown parameter
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