The Sahara is the largest desert in the world, filled with seas of sand, gravel plains stretching to the horizon, sandstone mountains, and volcanoes rising as high as 3,000 meters. In December 2022 and January 2023, photographer Barbara Seyr, together with writer Raoul Schrott and his team, undertook a journey to that location. From Algier to Tamanrasset, from the Mediterranean to the Sahel. What they discovered, learned, and experienced along the way has been recorded in a logbook. This volume is an inspiring and thought-provoking photographic and literary portrait of this "Last Desert."

"Desert means 'lonely, empty, raw, and rough.' I like the vastness that the word connects with the English 'vast,' and the desolation; but why? However, one thing the desert is not: shapeless. On the contrary, it reveals the Earth's original formations, long before they were greened and cultivated. Why I like this, I know."