Winner of the 2017 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Outstanding Contribution to Travel WritingOf all Michael Palin’s epic voyages around the world, his Sahara trip was perhaps the most challenging. Shrugging aside the perils of camel stew and being run over by the Paris-Dakar rally, Palin discovers that, far from being an empty wasteland, the vast and merciless Saharan desert is, in fact, home to a wonderful diversity of cultures and some of the most spectacular landscapes on earth.