THE GREEN SAHARA: Regaining Paradise in the Face of Climate Change, John Gaudet
A thoughtful exploration of how the Sahara Desert can be returned to its former glory as a green paradise while actively combating climate change. A green Sahara is something the world has not seen since 10,000 BC when the Sahara was a wet, lush region. By 3,000 BC though the climate changed, the rains stopped, […]
THE GREEN SAHARA: Regaining Paradise in the Face of Climate Change, John Gaudet
THE GREEN SAHARA: Regaining Paradise in the Face of Climate Change (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2026). The book explores how solar and wind farms in the Sahara Desert could generate massive green energy, potentially reversing desertification and restoring the region’s ancient green paradise. It’s a fascinating premise. John Gaudet, PhD was a Fulbright Scholar who spent […]
THE GREEN SAHARA: Paradise Regained, John Gaudet
How the Sahara Desert can be returned to its former glory and also supply the world’s energy needs, by ecologist John Gaudet (author of Papyrus and The Pharaoh’s Treasure), in a fascinating blend of environmental science and ancient history. (World English rights, Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury, Fall 2025)
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A Fulbright Scholar to both India and Malaya, the late John J. Gaudet was a writer and practicing ecologist. His early research on the ancient aquatic plant, papyrus, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, took him to Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, and many other places in Africa where papyrus grows. His work has […]