The Nobility of Wilderness - Travels in Algeria

Tom Sheppards latest book recounts his last overland journey into Algeria and details the fascinating landscape and people that he met as well as the complex issue of travelling in a country little is known about.

Despite its size – bigger than western Europe – and proximity to the European community, Algeria remains a little-known country, seldom getting coverage in western media. The majesty of its breathtaking Sahara landscapes is known to few. But despite the decade-long extremist-based security situation, author Tom Sheppard, who has been visiting Algeria since 1961, has made six long-range, solo expeditions to remote uninhabited areas in the last eight years.

No mere picture-book, the volume is a personal portfolio and record backing the author’s passionate plea for a Protected Area that he calls, not a 'National Park’ with its prissy overtones of fenced-in plots, but an espace des paysages – Space of Landscapes.

A book to make all who read it stop and think.