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The Sheltering Desert
By Henno Martin
Travel, Africa, South, General | 324 pages
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Valerie Taylor
""If war comes, we'll spend it in the Desert"
Two friends, Henno Martin and Hermann Korm escaped the civilisation of Windhoek with their dog, Otto, for the duration of the second world war. They hid away in the Kuiseb river valley, where they learnt the ways of the animals and how to source water. A truly outstanding autobiography, illustrated with touching black&white photographs.
When I visited Namibia with an Explore group in 2018, we passed through the parched Kuiseb Canyon. This is a vast area of steeply dipping and ancient schist rocks. There was no water in the river, no vegetation, no living thing. Henno Martin's outstanding account of their survival in the Desert truly enhanced my own visit to this beautiful country."
Two friends, Henno Martin and Hermann Korm escaped the civilisation of Windhoek with their dog, Otto, for the duration of the second world war. They hid away in the Kuiseb river valley, where they learnt the ways of the animals and how to source water. A truly outstanding autobiography, illustrated with touching black&white photographs.
When I visited Namibia with an Explore group in 2018, we passed through the parched Kuiseb Canyon. This is a vast area of steeply dipping and ancient schist rocks. There was no water in the river, no vegetation, no living thing. Henno Martin's outstanding account of their survival in the Desert truly enhanced my own visit to this beautiful country."
