Mauritania - Chinguetti - A nomad makes a fire in the Sahara desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum

Mauritania - Chinguetti - Priceless Korans and Hadith (collection of the sayings of the Prophet) crumble in one of Chinguetti's many libraries

Mauritania - Chinguetti - A nomad in his tent in the Sahara Desert

Mauritania - Chinguetti - A nomad goes to tend his camels

An old nomad woman

Mauritania - Sahara Desert - Ben Amera, the World's second largest monolith

A woman crouches against a wall

Mauritania - Chinguetti - A man digs himself out of his house in the morning after the wind has blown sand and covered his doorway during the night

A man digs himself out of his house

A nomad makes a fire

Two men chat and walk

Men play a traditional game in the sand

An old nomad woman

A man walks through the mysterious lanes

Mauritania - Sahara Desert - Sand dunes, surrounding Chinguetti

A black Afgrican boy at dawn

A man walks through Chinguetti

The librarian of the main Mosque in Chinguetti

Patterns in the sand

A man walking over the dunes

A boy wrapped against the wind, Mauritania

A man in his traditional house, Chinguetti, Mauritania

Mauritania-The Wind and the City

A black Afgrican boy at dawn

Walls destroyed by the wind and sand

Priceless Korans and Hadith

A man walks through the desert outside Chinguetti

Footprints on dunes surrounding Chinguetti

The ancient Mosque in Chinguetti

Nomads with their camels

A nomad man in his tent, near Chinguetti

The librarian of the main Mosque in Chinguetti

A Black African boy - actually a slave

The librarian of the main Mosque in Chinguetti

Mauritania-The Wind and the City

The ruined city of Ouadane

Wind blowing across the sand in the Mauritanian desert

A man walks over a dune overlooking Chinguetti

A man walks over a dune overlooking Chinguetti

Mauritania-The Wind and the City

Mauritania - Chinguetti - A boy at dawn with his loaf of bread

A wall almost buried by the sand and the wind, Chinguetti