Author: Toy, Barbara:

Title: The Way of the Chariots. Niger River - Sahara - Libya.

Publication: London: John Murray, 1964.

Description: First edition. 8vo., pp.[xiv], 156, [ii] + 8 leaves of photographic plates. Light blue cloth, white title to spine and upper board. A few sunned patches including head and tail edges, top edge a little foxed, still very good. Dust jacket a slightly toned at edges and folds but mostly visible only on the reverse, a few slight marks, very good. Ownership inscription to ffep, Nicholas Stuart-Lee, Oxford October 17th 1974.

Memoir of Toy's journey by Land Rover from Timbuktu to Tripoli, including the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southern Algeria where she investigated ancient rock drawings. The title refers to the apocryphal great highway supposed to have been driven by prehistoric chariots from the Mediterranean to the Niger.

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Reference Number: [54791]

Price: £75

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