When the Sahara Was Green by Martin Williams review – the sands of time

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The fascinating story of a unique landscape surveys the climatic changes that made this desert dry – and explains why it will one day be green again

left on this shrinking planet”. His 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky was inspired by the desert’s “intensely poetic” dunes and in a later essay he described its impact on him: “In this wholly mineral landscape lighted by stars like flares, even memory disappears; nothing is left but your own breathing and the sound of your heart beating … For no one who has stayed in the Sahara for a while is quite the same as when he came.

 

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