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One of the rising stars of travel writing takes readers into one of the least Westernized and travel-friendly regions of the planet--the Sahel, the lower region of the Sahara and the belt where Islam meets Central Africa.
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This is a trip I would only have taken by book. Tayler travels to the sub-Sahara region of Africa, an area I knew little about. During his travels, he meets ignorance and tradition head on. Poverty, disease, and filth abound. And Tayler seems little reason to hope for a better future. All in all, a grim journey. Told compellingly, however...I am now off to find Tayler's earlier book, a book in which he travels to north Africa.