THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

If you fly over the Sahara in daylight – say from Cairo to Bamako, or Marrakech to N’Djamena in Chad, crossing as you do so the desert’s invisible frontiers – you can spend six hours staring out the window at the ground and not see a living thing.  Even at relatively low altitudes, the game trails and wandering human tracks that mark the most arid landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa are almost entirely absent.

De Villiers/Sahara