The caravan woman.
Payot| N° d'inventaire | 31244 |
| Format | 14 x 20.5 |
| Détails | 414 p., paperback |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782228936217 |
"I wanted to go on an adventure alone, to cross the Sahara with the nomads." But no woman crosses the Ténéré in a caravan. Ténéré means both desert and solitude, a frightening world. "Fifty degrees, no shade, everything is silence lulled by the muffled footsteps of the camels and the sound of creaking ropes." Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki is the first woman to "make" the salt caravan, a thousand-year-old trade that crosses the desert to Niger. Four months, three thousand kilometers, from the Sahara to the gates of Black Africa. A single well for seven hundred kilometers. She recounts her journey, her adventures, and the Tuareg people, so independent, proud, poetic, and... matriarchal.
"I wanted to go on an adventure alone, to cross the Sahara with the nomads." But no woman crosses the Ténéré in a caravan. Ténéré means both desert and solitude, a frightening world. "Fifty degrees, no shade, everything is silence lulled by the muffled footsteps of the camels and the sound of creaking ropes." Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki is the first woman to "make" the salt caravan, a thousand-year-old trade that crosses the desert to Niger. Four months, three thousand kilometers, from the Sahara to the gates of Black Africa. A single well for seven hundred kilometers. She recounts her journey, her adventures, and the Tuareg people, so independent, proud, poetic, and... matriarchal.