December 1, 2007
Mauritania’s Manuscripts
From Saudi Aramco World
By Louis Werner
One could easily lose something precious in Mauritania’s million square kilometers (398,000 sq mi) of dune fields and rocky steppes, stretching north from the Senegal River and east from the Atlantic into the Sahara’s most desolate corners. Nomadic encampments are few, villages are far between, and the wind blows [...]