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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be

byMartin Williams

When the Sahara Was Green is Martin Williams's science narrative of how Our Greatest Desert Came to Be. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of nature and science. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

272

ISBN

9780691201627