Robert Christopher Croce hitchhiked across the Sahara desert, starting in Bousada and traveling over 3,200 km through places like El-Golea, In-Salah, Tamanrasset, and the "Land of Thirst and Death" before reaching Timbuktu. Along the way, he encountered scorching heat, sandstorms, and remote villages with deep wells but no means of retrieving water. The journey was documented by British writer G.F. Lamb and provided an account of crossing the vast Sahara on foot and by truck.

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2. Hitch-Hiking Across The
Sahara:
BY: G.F. Lamb
Hero : Robert
Christopher . Croce the
Sahara…..
Sahara : Sahara is a
big Desert the full
Sahara area, almost
the complete width of
North Africa, is many
time the size of Great
Britain .
Sahara

3. Who is G.F. Lamb ?
G.F. Lamb:, was an English writer,
Writes Books: Shakespeare Quotations. More
Good Stories .
Six Good Samaritans (Living names) . Animal
quotations.
Appointed : Commander of the Order of the British
Empire by Queen Elizabeth on 28 March 1972.
Nationality: British.
Publisher = Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Release date = September 1st 1994

4. Characters:
 Robert Christopher
 Foster mother
 Foster mother
 Professor
 Boubakar

5. Hitch-Hiking Across The Sahara
Bousada : ( Port of Sahara) Start the Sahara.
Ghardaia : (flies everywhere)
• Driving in soft sand. Hantout (name of truck driver)
travelling at a bare 32 kilometer an hour, while the
temperature rose.
• He left the truck and take the left on the military truck.

6. El-Golea : (OASIS): it was fascinating little town.
There was available much water.
Every day that he was spent, hours bathing in
. a little pool .
The worst experience of his life to drink the , , ,
mixture of wine and water.
In-Salah : this place was totally opposite to the El-Golea.
The city was swallowed by desert. The people left that place because there
were no fields of grass.

7. “
”
Tamanrasset: there he found his good friend
name professor Claude Balanguernon .
He was a French and stayed there to give education
that area’s people.
He learnt there the riding of camel.
He started his journey with the student of professor
Claude Balanguernon and other two people.

8. “
”
Land of thirst and Death: He was cross that
place, when he was going to Kidal.
It was an area famous for sand storms as well
dried up water holes.
When the sand storm was coming they hide
self behind his camel and cover his head.

9. “
”
Timbuktu: (an ancient city in the heart of
French Africa ).
when he reached Timbuktu his journey had
taken him across 3200 km of desert.
There he decides to meet again with
.
This place was end of his main journey.

10. “
”
Abbangarit: There was no village at in
Abbangarit .
The only building, witch was a simple
mud structure consisting of roof and
four wall.

11. Abbangarit:
The well in about 275 meters away. There
was water there all right.. But it was a
good 46 meters below, there was no rope
and bucket.