+------------------------------+ | ~_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_~ | | | | OUT OF THE WORLD NORTH | | OF NIGERIA: EXPLORATION | | OF AÏR | | | | WILD LIFE IN CANADA | | | | THREE YEARS OF WAR IN | | EAST AFRICA | | | |_For details see end of book._| +------------------------------+ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [Illustration: THE EDGE OF THE UNKNOWN] SAHARA BY ANGUS BUCHANAN, M.C., F.R.S.G.S. AUTHOR OF “WILD LIFE IN CANADA,” “THREE YEARS OF WAR IN EAST AFRICA,” “OUT OF THE WORLD NORTH OF NIGERIA” WITH NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS, SKETCHES, AND A MAP LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1926 TO FERI N’GASHI ONLY A CAMEL, BUT STEEL-TRUE AND GREAT OF HEART [Illustration] FOREWORD By The RT. HON. LORD SALVESEN, P.C., K.C. _Late President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society_ The author of this book is not merely an intrepid and successful explorer, but an accomplished biologist, who has added many new species of birds and animals to the ever-growing list of nature’s marvels. The desert of Sahara presents to the explorer many points of resemblance to the frozen wastes which surround the Poles, and to which so much attention has recently been directed. Its area is vast, its resources meagre in the extreme, the perils of travel great, and such as to test the highest qualities of the explorer. But here the resemblance ends. In the nature of the experiences and the hazards which the explorer encounters there could be no greater contrast, but oddly enough the man who can endure the one seems also fitted to withstand the other—of this Captain Buchanan is a living proof, for he, too, has been a traveller in Arctic regions.