Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.

We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...

This dromedary, the correct name for the one-humped camels of Morocco ... against a tent in a desert camp await those wishing to climb the Sahara dunes and sand-surf down. (Janet Podolak ...

I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take ... motorized travel in the Libyan Desert in the 1920s and ’30s.

Fennec Foxes are the quintessential desert creature. Image by Tom Parry. Bechir Belhad sits on Saharan sand dunes. They can live ... they can be found only in the Sahara. Their cunning is ...

They see something regal in the dunes. In their guests, they cultivate a reverential fear of the Sahara’s sands. With us, they played on this fear like music. To get to the camels outside ... the heat ...

Sarah Dawson and a team of 20 fundraisers walked 100km (62 miles) across the Sahara Desert A veterinary nurse ... by the hour" as they covered sand dunes, rock fields and old lake beds The group ...