The harsh severity of that desert, its ordered chaos with mirages and endless dunes, came over Leto as part of the trap in which he was caught.

A pale moon was rising above the endless shifting dunes to the south-east, and the great revolutionaries of the Saudi royal family were relaxed.

From Dahkla the team travels across endless white dunes until they reach a region of red sand, hills and ravines leading to a vast plateau rising up 300 metres.

As the endless white dunes passed beneath us, I wondered that the newest form of life on the planet had been born in a waterless desert, as remote from Eden as one could imagine.

She took Centaine's wrist and pulled her gently to her feet, and then turned to follow O'wa over the endless dunes.

To be successful, competitors will have to carefully manage the heat, their hydration, nutrition and rest, as well as the mental challenge of racing through endless dunes.

The dream image shifted away from Adrien, like the eyesight of an eagle swooping high over the endless dunes.

From the seemingly empty and endless dunes of the Namibian desert, to the teeming animal life of the Okavango River, this itinerary traverses the greatest parks, reserves and landscapes that Africa's south has to offer.

But if it is short, it is also dynamic and various, altogether more refreshing than the endless dunes of the Landes, north of the Adour.

The desert is starkly beautiful with its endless dunes and scrubby little bushes.