Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850

ISBN-13: 9780299143343 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str.

Jr. James L. Webb

Opis

A study of the ecological and economic impact of desertification along the southern edge of the western Sahara. A climatological trend toward increasing aridity has forced the desert 300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the Western Sahel.