Empires of Sand

Empires of Sand

"Empires of Sand" is a novel by American writer David Ball. It tells the story of two cousins who grow up in Paris, France during the Franco-Prussian War. The second two thirds of the novel concerns their adventures in French Algeria, one cousin living with a Tuareg tribe, the other employed by the French Army as they try to build a railway through the desert.


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