Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching
across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This
book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert
and the different ways in which they responded to its challenges,
establishing networks of communication across its expanse. But the
Sahara has not always been a desert. From about 9000 BC the region
began to enjoy a warm, humid period allowing vegetation to flourish
and wild animals to move in. Humans soon followed practising
pastoral economies but with the onset of harsher conditions once
more around 3000 BC the desert reclaimed its own. Since then
fluctuations in climate have continued to affect the lives of
people living around the desert fringes. The communities occupying
the North African Coast and in the Nile Valley have come under the
influence of the states dominating the Near East and the
Mediterranean but those living in in the Sahel to the south of the
desert have developed their own distinctive cultures. The book
tells the story of the growing links between the two worlds,
showing that Africa played a crucial part in the development of the
Old World before it was drawn into the story of the New World.
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