num_pages: 185
description: Philippe Diolé is known for his books about underwater exploration, having been a diver with Jacques Cousteau. But before he came to love the sea, he had known the desert; and when eventually he returned there, it was to find that that was where the sea meant most to him. Wherever he went in the desert he imagined he saw the seas surrounding him.The Sahara, which today is empty, was in prehistoric ages densely populated. As it became arid and barren, men fled from it or died: but they left traces almost everywhere - stone implements, cliff engravings, ruined forts - and many of them are described in this book. The author's account of his journey in search of them will be a revelation to those who think of the desert as a featureless void.
language: English
title: The Most Beautiful Desert of All
publisher: The Travel Book Club