The sand that makes up the dunes had traveled too, migrating west from Egypt and Sudan ... Once I started flying in the desert, I came under its spell and began what turned out to be a 15-year ...

We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...

The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more arid, with some parts receiving absolutely no rain at all for 200 million ye ...