Titlebook: Nile Waters, Saharan Sands; Adventures of a Geom Martin Williams Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Saharan lands

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,Wadi Azaouak, Niger (1973–1974),e investigate the results of a severe rainstorm on dune erosion and develop a model of natural desertification. I learn from the local Tuareg of the destruction of the city of Darwin in tropical northern Australia by Hurricane Tracy on December 24, 1973. An attempted coup in the capital Niamey makes departure from the airport problematic.

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,Boyhood in France (1950–1953),elle-St-Cloud. Brilliant teacher. Awarded scholarship to Lycée Hoche in Versailles. Discover the world of Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre Museum in Paris. My interest in deserts is aroused by an article on the fossil rivers of the Sahara. Leave France in late 1953.

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,Sheffield, the Pennines and Cambridge (1953–1962),Exploring Derbyshire and the Pennines. Open Exhibition in Geography to Selwyn College, Cambridge in 1959. Fieldwork in the Swiss Alps, Norway and the Macgillycuddy Reeks, County Kerry, southwest Ireland brings to life the recent glacial history of these regions. I develop an interest in recent geolo

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,Blue and White Nile Valleys, Sudan (1962–1964),s viper one week after arriving in Sudan. Guest of the Mahdi’s grandson on Aba Island in the White Nile. Adventures along the Sudan-Ethiopian border. More snake incidents and a close encounter with a saw-scaled viper. The nomadic life of a reconnaissance soil surveyor. I start to realise that the ph

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,Northern Territory, Canberra and Sydney, Australia (1964–1984),ed by plant ecologist Dr Robert Story, of the region between Arnhem Land, Darwin and Pine Creek, Northern Territory. Monitor hill slope erosion in tropical Northern Territory as part of my doctoral research at the Australian National University, Canberra, supervised by Joe Jennings. Discover the imp

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