
Language
fr
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Paris: Société d'éditions géographiques maritimes et coloniales, 1925.
Credits
Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the ULB Sachsen-Anhalt)
Release date
2024-03-30
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

An explorer-geologist whose life reads like an adventure story, he crossed the Sahara, argued that major oil reserves lay beneath it, and died under mysterious circumstances in 1950. His work helped shape early understanding of North Africa’s geology and fuel potential.
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