This new publication is the only full-length guidebook to Mauritania from a mainstream travel publisher. This alluring country is now one of the few places where you can securely and freely explore the Sahara. Expert author Sean Connolly shows you how to get the most from your journey:- . Spend an unforgettable (and dusty!) night atop the world's longest train . Take a camel trek between the shifting dunes and lush oases of the Adrar . Sip strong green tea in a Bedouin tent and unfurl your sleeping mat under the stars . Marvel at the priceless manuscripts kept in Chinguetti's ancient stone-built homes . Get the best deal on a goat or two at Nouakchott's livestock market . Marvel at the scores of fishermen braving the waves in their hand-built pirogues . Soak up ancient rhythms along the Senegal River, where seasonal floods set the tempo . Peer out over the ochre-painted city of Oualata, last outpost before the endless sands beyond . Let your inner geologist run wild at the 'eye of the Sahara' or Richat Structure . Get fitted for a billowing blue-and-white boubou or women's melahfa outfit. AUTHOR: Sean Connolly (Instagram @shanboqol) first travelled to Africa as a student in 2008 and has been returning to the continent regularly to research, teach or simply soak up the ambience in Africa's countless little-visited corners ever since. He's been poring over maps since before he could read them, and working with Bradt Guides since 2011. After authoring two editions of Bradt's Senegal, he was grateful for the opportunity to get to know its mysterious northern neighbour as well. Sean has also updated or contributed to the Bradt guides to Somaliland, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana, Uruguay, Sierra Leone, São Tomé & Príncipe, two editions of Rwanda, and Gabon. When he's not updating guides, leading tours, or discussing the many merits of camel meat (a delicacy in Mauritania!), you'll find him seeking out a country's funkiest records or dodging raindrops in Copenhagen. 40 colour photos, 28 maps
