The Golden Trade of the Moors

“The long history of the flourishing trans-Saharan trade is the story both of the merchants of the North African littoral and of the AFrican kingdoms to the south of he desert.
This book is a fascinating account, for the general reader as well as for students of West African history, of ‘how’ – as the author says in his Preface – ‘the Sahara enriched the Carthaginian and bewildered the Roman; how in later times the great caravan routes, linking the sophisticated cities of the north with the great markets and modest seats of learning of the south, not only influenced the course of events in Barbary, and even beyond, but sometimes determined it; how all down the centuries Berbers and Arabs, Jews and Christians, never ceased to draw on the wealth and industry of the Sudanese.’ …”