GALANIS (Demetrios) Les nuits du Hoggar, Tuareg poems, - Lot 182

GALANIS (Demetrios) Les nuits du Hoggar, Tuareg poems, Collected by Georges-Marie Haardt and assisted by explorer Louis Audouin Dubreuil (later head of Citroën's automobile expeditions to Africa and Asia (croisière noire then croisière jaune) Paris, Les éditions d'art Devambez, 1926 Copy in-8 paperback, uncut, in slipcase Numerous woodcuts by GALANIS after drawings by Robert Raphael Haardt, including a frontispiece and 6 full-page plates. Copy with dispatch number 152 for an edition of 500 copies. At the end of 1992, explorer Louis Audouin Dubreuil led the first automobile crossing of the Sahara from Touggourt to Timbuktu in 23 days. The success of this rapid raid led to the creation of the first automobile track linking North Africa to Sudan, and a weekly postal service. They decided to return to Algeria, studying one of the routes planned for the future trans-Saharan railroad, and to go to Tamanrasset to meet the Tuareg. They were received by the great Akhamouk, lord of the Hoggar, and visited the love court of his sister-in-law, the poetess Dacine. In epic poems, the Tuareg lords delivered to them "the soul of the people of sail".