Maybe it was one of the latest browsers "romantic." Bedouins called him "the Father of the Sands." Count Almasy, loved the desert. The movie "The English Patient" is based on his life, although many of the issues cited are fiction, and life is much higher than any fiction that may arise from the desert sands. Read the story of a man who could tame the endless barren sand roads.
loved the desert. Loved the infinite extension of the trembling mirage, wind, craggy peaks, the rigid chains of dunes as ocean waves. And loved the simple, the rough life of a primitive camp in the freezing cold, in light of the stars at night, and on warm
sandstorms. Laszlo Almasy (The Unknown Sahara)
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His loyalty to the Austro-Hungarian crown will take to assist the restoration of the monarchy in Hungary by driving the vehicle that led to King Charles IV, back to Budapest, from exile. The king granted the title of Count.
After the war, Almasy, as representative of the Austrian Steyr automobile brand Autmobilewerke, conducted in 1926, an endurance test of such vehicles by completing the distance between Alexandria in Egypt, the Sudan along the river Nile In 1929, two vehicles Steyr, Almasy traveled 12,000 km. through Northeast Africa, Libya, Egypt and Sudan on a journey that changed his life. Rediscovered the ancient caravan route that connected Egypt with the rest of Africa, a former slave route in which only the strongest survive, called the Forty Road, because that was the number of days it took to go
Almasy fell in love with the vastness of the Sahara during the expedition. Across the sands of the desert in Libya, heard of the ancient Bedouin legend told in the cold nights by the fire. The story Zerzura the lost oasis seduced Almasy, it was said that Zerzura was somewhere in the middle of the desert, guarded by a white bird, only the bravest men could enter the secret place, which was filled with gold and treasures and queen lying dormant that could only be awakened with a kiss. 
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