 PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRENNAN LINSLEY/AP
|  | The Salt of Life Life is hard for the nomadic people of the Sahara Desert who live and work along the 450-mile salt road from Timbuktu
STACKED AND READY TO GO: Just after sunrise, blocks of pure salt cut from the earth sit stacked in rows awaiting carriers in Taoudenni, as a miner removes earth from his pit mine. |  |