Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society, London, June 2015.
Romanticised by nineteenth-century explorers as mysterious ‘people of the veil’, but with a reputation too as fearsome warriors, the nomadic Tuareg have been the guardians of the Sahara for over a thousand years. Surviving in one of the most pitiless and inhospitable terrains on earth, they controlled the lucrative caravan trading routes until nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonisation followed by twenty-first…
