Under An African Sky: A journey to the climate frontline

Peter Hudson has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years. This is the story of his most recent journey there – an intense and engaging day-by-day account through which global change and inequality are made human. The Sahel – the 'shore' of the Sahara – is where cultures, customs and climates meet, merge and clash. Through the numerous characters we meet and from the obviously deep and sympathetic nature of the relationship the author has with the local people, we learn of the realities of life in one of the harshest, most marginalised and but also quietly inspiring corners of the world. Searingly honest and refreshing, this is a superb piece of travel writing about a little-known part of the world.