Michael Asher war ein Autor, Historiker und Wüstenforscher, der sich der Tiefenökologie verschrieben hat und über 30.000 Meilen zu Fuß und auf Kamelen zurücklegte. Er verbrachte drei Jahre bei einem traditionellen Nomadenstamm im Sudan. Seine umfangreiche Feldarbeit in Afrika, verbunden mit seinen fließenden Sprachkenntnissen in Arabisch und Swahili, verleiht seinem Werk außergewöhnliche Authentizität. Asher konzentriert sich auf ein tiefes Verständnis der von ihm erforschten Kulturen und Umgebungen, und sein Schreiben bietet eine einzigartige Perspektive auf das Leben außerhalb der westlichen Zivilisation.
Noch nie hat ein Europäer die Sahara zu Fuß und per Kamel durchquert. Michael Asher wagte es. Damit aber die Sache nicht allzu harmlos wird, nimmt er, frisch verheiratet, seine Frau Mariantoinetta mit. Stoff in Hülle und Fülle für ein außergewöhnlich spannendes und amüsantes Buch und die aufregendste Hochzeitsreise, die man sich vorstellen kann.
Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher-including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics-most published here for the first time.
Captain Tom Caine knows he should be out with the throngs of revellers, celebrating Victory in Europe. But instead of elation he only feels anger. He cannot forget the horrors of the past six years and the friends he was unable to save. And what about Celia Blaney, field security officer and the object of his affections, reported MIA? Then Caine receives an offer to become part of a war crimes investigation team, tasked with uncovering the fate of service men and women who went missing in France. But his team quickly finds that Allied forces and the Military Police, the very people who should be supporting their endeavour, are inexplicably obstructing their progress. Is there something they don't want them to know? Something connected to the missing SAS men? ... and Blaney?
The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. This work presents an account that sheds light on this tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times.
Written by the same author as "A Desert Dies" and "In Search of the Forty Days Road", this book describes the longest camel journey ever made by Westerners. The author and his wife made unique observations along the way of the effects of the drought and the increasing spread of the desert.
Libya, 1942 - Rommel's Africa Korps is sweeping across the desert. Ragged Allied forces are being torn apart in brutal fire-fights on the scorched sands. A desperate message to the Prime Minister is entrusted to First Officer Madeleine Rose, WRNS. Her codename: Runefish.
The harrowing tale of a disastrous 1880 French expedition to survey a railway to Timbuktu unfolds as explorer Michael Asher delves into the misadventures of a hundred men ill-prepared for the hostile Saharan environment. Ambushed and left without resources, they faced relentless threats from the Tuareg and starvation, ultimately resorting to cannibalism for survival. Only a dozen men emerged alive after a grueling 1,000-mile journey, making this account a gripping narrative of human resilience against overwhelming odds.
Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara
The true story of the most famous SAS operation in history. 'Bravo Two Zero' was the code-name of the famous SAS operation: a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. BRAVO TWO ZERO by patrol commander 'Andy McNab' became an international bestseller, as did the book by 'Chris Ryan' (THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY). Both men became millionaires. Three members of the patrol were killed. One, veteran sergeant Vince Phillips, was blamed in both books for a succession of mistakes. As Michael Asher reveals, the stories in BRAVO TWO ZERO and THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY grew considerably in the telling. Their heroic tales of taking out tanks with their rocket launchers, mowing down hundreds of Iraqi soldiers, the silent stabbing of the occasional sentry, were never mentioned at their post-war debriefings... In an investigation literally in the footsteps of the patrol, Michael Asher tells the true story.
