📚 The Sahara

The great desert: crossings, its peoples, climate cycles, and the archaeology of the times when it was green.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sahara in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Sahara und Sudan	Gustav Nachtigal	1967	15
	The Sahara Desert	Megan Lappi	2004	8
	De Carthage au Sahara	Pierre Bauron	1899	7
	Sahara	Jean-Marc Durou	1977	7
	The conquest of the Sahara	Douglas Porch	1984	7
	Au Sahara	Jean Gabus	1954	6
	Le Sahara	Raymond Furon	1957	4
	Taming the Sahara	Andrew Borowiec	2002	4
	Trans-Saharan Africa in world history	Ralph A. Austen	2010	3
	Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond	D. J. Mattingly	2017	3
	L' Afrique française, l'empire de Maroc, et les deserts de Sahara	Pierre Christian	1846	2
	Les deux missions Flatters au pays des touareg azdjer et hoggar	Henri François Brosselard-Faidherbe	1889	2
	Sahara algérien	Victor Benjamin Deporter	1891	2
	Une femme chez les Sahariennes (entre Laghouat et In-Salah)	Jean Pommerol	1900	2
	Le Sahara aux cent visages	Maurice Hyacinthe Lelong	1937	2
	Aventures sahariennes	Stéphane Desombre	1950	2
	Les Touareg Ajjer	Gabriel Gardel	1961	2
	Sahara 1956-1962	Claude Treyer	1966	2
	Le Sahara	Jeremy Swift	1975	2
	Algerian Sahara =	Frans Lemmens	1989	2
	Egypt during the last interglacial	Fred Wendorf	1993	2
	Historical dictionary of Western Sahara	Anthony G. Pazzanita	1994	2
	The Sahara	Murray, Peter	1994	2
	Sahara	Thierry Tillet	1997	2
	Sahara (Vanishing Cultures)	Jan Reynolds	1999	2
	Mémoire sur le Sahara oriental au point de vue l'établissement des puits artésiens dans l'Oued-Souf, l'Oued-R'ir et les Zibans	Charles Auguste Laurent	1859	1
	The horses of the Sahara and the manners of the desert	Melchior Joseph Eugène Daumas	1863	1
	Les Touareg	capitaine Aymard	1911	1
	Notice sur le tourisme saharien	Jean Causeret	1930	1
	Contribution à l'étude de la faune du Sahara occidental, su sanglier au phacochère	Vincent Monteil	1951	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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