Benanav, Michael.

Men of salt : crossing the Sahara on the caravan of white gold / [by] Michael Benanav. - Guilford, CT : Lyons, 2006. - xvii, 220 p. : ill. (some col.), map, plates ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Details the author's forty day stay with salt miners who travel on foot eighteen hours a day for 1,000 miles to get paid for the salt they have harvested.

10-A.



9781592287727 1592287727

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Caravans--Sahara.
Salt industry and trade--Sahara.
Salt mines and mining--Sahara.


Sahara--Description and travel.

DT333 / .B46 2006

916.6/04/329