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

by Martin Williams

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

272

ISBN

9780691201627