Sahara is the book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC television documentary series Sahara with Michael Palin.

All of the pictures in this book were taken by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was part of the team who did the trip (Basil Pao also produced a book, Inside Sahara, containing many more of his pictures).

This trip involved traveling all around and through the Sahara Desert, starting and ending at Gibraltar.

The Sahara Desert is roughly the same size as the United States, and the trip covered 10,000 miles (16,000 km.)

This book is available as an audiobook, read by Michael Palin.