A Traveller's History of North Africa

Download or read book A Traveller's History of North Africa written by Barnaby Rogerson and published by Gerald Duckworth. This book was released on 2008 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and readable guide to the history and culture of Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria, relates the history of the region from its earliest beginnings to its politics and life at the turn of the new century. North Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and to the south, the sands of the Sahara. It has seen wave upon wave of invasion, from the Carthaginians in the 5th century BC to the French in the 20th century.