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July 21, 2003
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Mauritania, West Africa
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1997
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George Steinmetz
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Fluid curves of Saharan sand dunes greet a camel caravan in Mauritania, West Africa. Oasis towns in Mauritania were once important stops on the trade routes between the Sahel and Morocco. Caravans like this are becoming harder to find as the nomadic people of the area become increasingly sedentary.
(Photograph from "Making Sense of the Millennium," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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