L'esclave de Dieu

by Roger Frison-Roche

Sur un mode romanesque, l'histoire véridique de René Caillié qui réussit à atteindre Tombouctou après une périlleuse traversée de l'Afrique au début du XIXe siècle, en se faisant passer pour un musulman.

544 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 8, 1992

About the author

Born in 1906 in Paris, Roger Frison-Roche, an alpinist, mountain guide, journalist, and explorer before he turned novelist, produced fiction that celebrated the splendors and rigors of the Alps, the Sahara, and the Scandinavian North. Two of his Alpine novels, Premier de cordée, translated into English as First on the Rope, and La Grande Crevasse, present adventure stories whose mountain-guide protagonists titillate readers with the appealing skill and daring exacted by the mountain.

Source : Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook by Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato (p. 203)

Reviews

[Vico]

Un livre envoûtant et difficile à fermer. À lire absolument !

[Elo Tea-time]

Quel voyage... culturel, historique, philosophique, dramatique.
Une œuvre riche et immersive dans laquelle se plonger sans modération.

[Miranda]

Facinating I would like to get ahold of the actuall book rene caille wrote though and see what he himself had to say