JV: The Extraordinary Adventures of Jules Verne Episode 17 Sahara Episode Title: Sahara Episode Description: Professor Lucas Artemius and his team agree to travel to the colonial French Sahara with captain Hardigan, whose troop must protect the engineers and locals workers, who are digging canal to create an inland sea with Mediterranean water, against turban-masked dromedary riders. Only on site, Jules and Lucas not only works out the project would wreck the otherwise most hospitable Tuareg locals' way of life, but also that the attacks, without plunder, are somehow staged.