Having stumbled upon a suggling operation, Beck Granger is forced to bail out of a plane over the merciless Sahara Desert. Now he faces a slow and agonising death if he can't cross the miles of sand between him and civilisation.
When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage B behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind p...