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It is always difficult to decide what to read during my customary respite between Xmas and New Years. Leafing through the NYT Book Review, I found the perfect book: My Mercedes Is Not for Sale. The book is about a Dutchman who buys an old Mercedes in Amsterdam and drives it across the Sahara to Burkina Faso, with the goal of selling it. It's got everything I crave: an old Mercedes, an impossible drive through terra incognito, history, geopolitics, madness. Here is his route and some photos from the
book's website.
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Peugeot 504 in Niger
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Ferry between Senegal and Mauritania
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Family outing in Mauritania
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Wrecked Mercedes in Mauritania
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Benin Peugeot
CKY
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