The Fearful Void

Geoffrey Moorhouse arrived in Mauritania in October 1972 to begin a traverse of the great Shara desert, from the Atlantic to the Nile, by camel and by himself. No one had ever made such a journey before, but the establishment of a record crossing of 3,600 miles was not the essential reason for making his attempt. This was to examine the bases of fear, to explore an extremity of human experience.