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PUBLICATIONS Books on Explorers and Exploration From other Publishers   Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel By Jeffrey Tayler ISBN 061833467X Hardcover, 256pp February 2005 Houghton Mifflin Company Review by Club staff Jeff Stolzer Jeffrey Tayler's new book, Angry Wind, memorably documents his journey through an area in Africa that is the closest thing to hell on earth—the Sahel, a dusty, windswept, frightfully poor region that stretches across the southern expanse of the Sahara desert. Tayler embarks on his trip with curiosity about this once legendary region (home to long-romanticized cities like Timbuktu and Mopti) and sets out to separate fact from myth. Intent on experiencing the Sahel from the ground up, he travels by truck, bus, camel, and canoe to some of the most god-forsaken places on our planet. This is about as lonely a journey as one can imagine. Even with his expertise in French and Arabic, Tayler is frequently unable to communicate with the people that he encounters, including his own guides. He is looked on with suspicion or contempt or both by many of the natives. Tayler's courage in the face of this is truly remarkable. Angry Wind is sobering, but not unrelentingly despairing. Tayler does manage to make friends along the way, and he writes of these brief relationships with poignancy and tenderness. He experiences real generosity, and this offers a thin thread of hope in the otherwise grim quilt of religious fanaticism, poverty, ethnic rivalry, and corruption that Tayler has discovered in Muslim Black Africa.

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