Desert Encounter is a book written by the Danish

Denmark

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 journalist

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 Knud Holmboe

Knud Holmboe

Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe was a Danish journalist and explorer who converted to Islam after travels in North Africa. Born in Horsens he travelled to Morocco as a young man, in order to familiarize himself with Islam and learn the Arabic language.Upon his conversion, Holmboe changed his name to...

 who had converted to Islam

Islam

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.

Desert Encounter describes a trip across the Sahara

Sahara

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 made in 1930 by Knud Holmboe

Knud Holmboe

Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe was a Danish journalist and explorer who converted to Islam after travels in North Africa. Born in Horsens he travelled to Morocco as a young man, in order to familiarize himself with Islam and learn the Arabic language.Upon his conversion, Holmboe changed his name to...

 in an old Chevrolet

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. In the book he condemns the colonial

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 regimes of North Africa

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 and particularly the Italian

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 colonial government that terrorized the Muslim

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 population in Libya

Libya

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. Desert Encounter was immediately banned in Fascist Italy

Italian Fascism

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. Suspicions that Knud Holmboe

Knud Holmboe

Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe was a Danish journalist and explorer who converted to Islam after travels in North Africa. Born in Horsens he travelled to Morocco as a young man, in order to familiarize himself with Islam and learn the Arabic language.Upon his conversion, Holmboe changed his name to...

was murdered by Italian intelligence because of the book's content have never been verified.

Published by Darf Publishers Ltd, 1931.