Description

Les chevaux du Sahara et les mœurs du désert (Horses of the Sahara and the ways of the desert) is a study of the horses of North Africa accompanied by ethnographic commentary based on the author’s residence in Algeria as well as on the reflections of ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri, Amir of Mascara (1808‒83). The book is by General Eugène Daumas (1803‒71), a French soldier who participated in his country’s conquest of Algeria. The first half of the volume deals with the Saharan horse, how it ...