AS FAR as the eye can see, there is nothing but sand. It is one of the harshest, most inaccessible places on Earth. This is the Fezzan.
Lying in south-western Libya, the Fezzan covers an area of around 640,000 square kilometres in the heart of the Sahara desert. Here, years can pass with no rain: no wonder it is so barren. It hasn’t always been like this. Around 10,000 years ago, 5 per cent of the Sahara was covered by lakes and rivers, and a humid corridor across the middle of the desert teemed with plants, animals and people. An…
