Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850 - Paperback

by James L. a. Webb Jr. (Author)

A study of the ecological and economic impact of desertification along the southern edge of the western Sahara. A climatological trend toward increasing aridity has forced the desert 300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the Western Sahel.