Exploration of Aïr

A first-person account of a solitary scientific and hunting expedition into the remote Aïr mountains of the central Sahara, detailing long camel journeys and the practical hardships of desert travel. The narrative records encounters with Hausa, Beri-Beri, Fulani and Tuareg communities alongside the small number of French administrators, and offers vivid descriptions of markets, villages, rocky ranges and sandstorms. It combines travel diary with field natural history by describing collecting methods, altitude readings and hunting trips for ostrich and mountain sheep, and concludes with notes on the specimens gathered and a list of newly recorded species.