Earth’s Incredible Places: The Sahara

About this book

The Sahara Desert – so large that it touches almost every corner of North Africa – is one of the wildest habitats on Earth: a land of extremes where only the tough survive. Yet the Sahara is also home to a large variety of wildlife and communities of people. 

This stunning non-fiction book profiles the formation of the Sahara, its temperatures – from a blistering 50 degrees centigrade in the daytime to well below freezing at night – its mountains, rock structures, sand dunes, oases, waterways and weather. 

There’s also a fabulous chapter detailing some of the wildlife that can be found in the Sahara – camels, deathstalker scorpions, crocodiles, monkeys and even turtles – all beautifully rendered in a graphic but painterly style by Muti. 

And young readers can also learn about the different communities of people who have lived in the Sahara, from the ancient past – including Ancient Carthage, Numidia and Ancient Egypt – to today’s nomadic peoples, including the Berbers and the Sahrawi. 

As ever with books published by Flying Eye, the artwork and high production of this book means that it’s a real treasure for any child or school library, packed full of fascinating information.