A certain mystique lingers in its very name. It's a
haunting and hostile arena with a past as captivating
as its landscape. In this desert blanketing 11 nations
in Northern Africa, nature has crafted a world of
mesmerizing desolation and across its scorching sands
humanity has dared to carve history. Our cameras
explore a land of mirage and myth--from a mountain
fortress of ancient freedom fighters to a vast stadium
filled with gladiators' gore to the vibrant chaos of a
camel auction to the fabled metropolis of Timbuktu.
Historians chronicle how a devastating climate change
turned a lush savanna into the world's harshest
desert. The Sahara...sinister and seductive, mythic
and mysterious...as tantalizing and elusive as a
mirage.
