Men of Salt: Crossing The Sahara On The Caravan Of White Gold

Barnes &amp; Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Seasonal Pick In fact, there was no road at all, just an endless stretch of desert sand called "The Land of Terror" by the nomads who cross it, and described by author Michael Benanav with humor and startling insight in this compelling narrative. Benanav joined what is known as the Caravan of White Gold -- so-called because the salt was once literally worth its weight in gold -- on its mission into the deadly heart of the Sahara to haul back gleaming slabs of solid salt for sale at market. He'd been siezed by the idea after coming across an article about the dying days of the caravan: "It was that feeling known by those of us who don't so much take journeys as are taken by journeys: hearing the call of a particular place for a particular purpose that will not be denied. It was the kind of trip I was born to take." Following his amused guide, Walid, Benanav lived for weeks among the camel drivers as they traveled eighteen hours a day for nearly a thousand miles without a map or landmark in sight, through sandstorms and searing heat. Along the way, he learned how to care for and ride camels, became a medic to injured salt miners, and grappled with the dilemmas of cultural extinction created by the ever-widening impact of globalization. MEN OF SALT is a revelation, introducing an important new voice to the tradition of travel literature.

Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold

Travel

Benanav, Michael

Specialty Travel

LYONS PRESS+

Barnes &amp; Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Seasonal Pick An American's life-or-death adventure to the salt mines of the Sahara Desert

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Traveling through the Ukraine, Romania, and Turkey, Michael Benanav documented the incredible story of his grandmother Isadora, who was deported along with every Jew in Romania and held captive in a frozen Ukrainian area called Transnistria. Near the end of the Nazi occupation, Isa returned to Bucharest. She emigrated to Palestine on the Toros, the ship on which she met the author’s grandfather, Joshua. Letters chronicle both the love affair, the birth of the Zionist movement, and the resurgence of Jewish writers in Europe. This story is a beautiful tapestry woven by an award-winning young writer, accompanied by vivid full-color photographs.

Joshua & Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

UNKNO

One man’s personal journey to trace his grandparents’ remarkable fate during the worst of times.

Leaders & Notable People

Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals?And an Ancient Way of Life

History

Americas

Pegasus Books

A gorgeous work of literary journalism that follows a nomadic family’s fraught migration to the high Himalayan plains, as a changing world closes in around them. Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings us along on a journey with a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in India. Welcomed into a family of nomadic water buffalo herders, he joins them on their annual spring migration into the Himalayas. More than a glimpse into an endangered culture, this superb adventure explores the relationship between humankind and wild lands, and the dubious effect of environmental conservation on peoples whose lives are inseparably intertwined with the natural world. The migration Benanav embarked upon was plagued with problems, as government officials threatened to ban this nomadic family—and others in the Van Gujjar tribe—from the high alpine meadows where they had summered for centuries. Faced with the possibility that their beloved buffaloes would starve to death, and that their age-old way of life was doomed, the family charted a risky new course, which would culminating in an astonishing mountain rescue. And Benanav was arrested for documenting the story of their plight. Intimate and enthralling, Himalaya Bound paints a sublime picture of a rarely-seen world, revealing the hopes and fears, hardships and joys, of a people who wonder if there is still a place for them on this planet. Laced with stories of tribal cultures from India to Yellowstone, from Jordan to Kenya, Benanav deftly wends through the controversial terrain where Western ways of protecting the environment clash with indigenous understandings of nature. Himalaya Bound celebrates and mourns an ancient way of life, while revealing an unlikely battleground in the fight to save the earth.

Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals―And an Ancient Way of Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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Ver Berkmoes, Ryan

Vorhees, Mara

Karlin, Adam

Grosberg, Michael

McCarthy, Carolyn

Skolnick, Adam

Pitts, Christopher

Benson, Sara

Krause, Mariella

Benchwick, Greg

Balfour, Amy C.

Zimmerman, Karla

LONELY, PLANET

Australia & South Pacific

Lonely Planet

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India 15 (inglés) (Lonely Planet)

Harding, Paul

Mayhew, Bradley

Singh, Sarina

McCrohan, Daniel

Brown, Lindsay

Elliott, Mark

Karafin, Amy

Mahapatra, Anirban

Raub,Kevin

Asia

GeoPlaneta

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Lonely Planet Discover India

Holden, Trent

Noble, John

Bindloss, Joe

MORGAN, KASS

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Sainsbury, Brendan

Brash, Celeste

Friary, Ned

Bing, Alison

Clark, Gregor

Sieg, Caroline

Bao, Sandra

Bodry, Catherine

Berkmoes, Ryan Ver

St.Louis, Regis

Biological Sciences

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