Sahara 
Subtitle: A Natural History
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780771026386
Subjects: Nature; Nature / Field Guide Books; Essays; Earth Sciences - Geography
First sentence: FROM SPACE, the Sahara is a brilliant band of caramel and beige, stretching from the dried-blood-red cliffs of Mauritania on the Atlantic Ocean to the bleached bone of Egypt's Eastern Desert hard by the Red Sea.