Booktalk: Author of “Men of Salt,” Michael Benanav

Adventurer and author Michael Benanav describes crossing the Sahara desert on a camel for nearly 40 days. Michael traveled on the back of a camel from Timbuktu to the salt mines deep in the Mali desert. He traveled eighteen hours daily in a camel caravan with men whose tribes have made this journey for salt — once worth its weight in gold — for many centuries.

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Top authors are interviewed on this 10-minute program that captures their words about their books and ideas and often the story behind the story. The show, hosted by Diana Korte and engineered by Gene Korte, is in its 20th year of production.

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