The Great Sahara Mousehunt

Why not cross the Sahara looking for mice?This is the uninhibited record of fourteen people who did just that in the spring of 1961 - swapping desert lore, fact and fiction, pushing each other out of sand swamps and over crested dunes, swatting flies, fleas and sometimes each other, swimming in icy desert lagoons and eating meals dusted with sand - from Benghazi, Libya, to one of the most inaccessible mountain ranges in the world, the Tibesti.Seven civilians, an officer of the Royal Scots, and six British soldiers. Among the civilians were Liv Pomeroy, US Information Officer in Benghazi and reluctant leader of the pack; Alan Collins, a New York literary agent, who sparked the expedition and got a mouse named after him for his pains; Dr. Henry Setzer, mammologist from the Smithsonian in Washington; and the Churchills - Randalph and young Winston, on 'reading leave' from Oxford.