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Mauritania Books
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The Desert and the Drum (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.85 — 349 ratings — published 2015
Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,191 ratings — published 2015
The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.08 — 125 ratings — published
Deep in the Sahara (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.94 — 934 ratings — published 2013
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,391 ratings — published 2017
Sahara (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,296 ratings — published 2002
The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,678 ratings — published 1998
Angels of Mauritania and the Curse of the Language (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 2.71 — 14 ratings — published
Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.78 — 83 ratings — published 2001
Travels in Mauritania (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.87 — 38 ratings — published 1990
Barzakh: The Land In-Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.29 — 28 ratings — published 1994
Eve out of Her Ruins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,763 ratings — published 2006
Dangerous Love: A True Story of Tragedy, Faith, and Forgiveness in the Muslim World (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.13 — 220 ratings — published 2015
To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.68 — 677 ratings — published 2013
Birds of Nabaa: A Mauritanian Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,426 ratings — published 2004
Canada in Africa - 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.22 — 32 ratings — published 2015
Mali Blues: Traveling to an African Beat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.65 — 213 ratings — published 1996
Barefoot through Mauretania (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2006
Impossible Journey: Two Against The Sahara (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.16 — 96 ratings — published 1988
Under An African Sky: A journey to the climate frontline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.72 — 18 ratings — published 2014
Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.47 — 19 ratings — published 1985
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,832 ratings — published 2024
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847 ratings — published 1355
Gassires Lute: A West African Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.09 — 55 ratings — published 1971
The Children of Mauritania: Days in the Desert and by the River Shore (The World's Children)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1994
The Court of Miracles (The Court of Miracles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,342 ratings — published 2020
القبر المجهول (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.04 — 51 ratings — published 1981
Honeymoon on the moon and other stories (paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,208 ratings — published 2005
Le forfait colonial (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Maghreb since 1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.65 — 17 ratings — published 2007
Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco (Makers of the Muslim World)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.73 — 15 ratings — published 2008
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.06 — 381 ratings — published 2017
The Sahara: A Cultural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.54 — 56 ratings — published 2011
The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.06 — 50 ratings — published 1968
The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel (Oxford Handbooks)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization (African Governance Book 4)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.79 — 129 ratings — published 2025
Slavery and Islam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.15 — 336 ratings — published
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,470 ratings — published 1999
Pieds nus à travers la Mauritanie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Children of the World: How We Live, Learn, and Play in Poems, Drawings, and Photographs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.57 — 28 ratings — published 2011
N'appartenir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.72 — 18 ratings — published 2014
The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.51 — 107 ratings — published 2016
Africa Amazing Africa: Country by Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.41 — 256 ratings — published 2019
Songs from the Baobab: African Lullabies & Nursery Rhymes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.50 — 26 ratings — published 2011
Africa Is Not a Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.21 — 368 ratings — published 2000
The Butterfly: Cixin Liu Graphic Novels #5 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.29 — 73 ratings — published 2022
“Saudi Arabia outlawed slave owning only in 1962. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania finally moved toward abolition in 1981, but the practice continued unabated, even after a 2003 law that made slave ownership punishable with jail or a fine. As recently as December 2004, the BBC cited Boubakar Messaoud of Mauritania’s SOS Slaves organization: ‘A Mauritanian slave, whose parents and grandparents before him were slaves, doesn’t need chains. He has been brought up as a domesticated animal.”
― The 10 Big Lies about America
― The 10 Big Lies about America
“I may not always be taken seriously. I often come off as rather humorous: not serious, not academic enough. But that is simply not my style. I regret that I often get comments about that. That people think I have no sense of reality. But people don't know me. Sometimes I find it really disturbing, the criticism I've been getting since I was young. I'm 55 now: if I had really done something wrong, it would have been known by now.”
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