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- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1989
It’s a searing hot day in the middle of a Namibian summer, and a white man is watering the garden of his luxurious villa while his daughter plays nearby. The peaceful scene is shattered by the single shot that...
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
- Location(s): Angola, Namibia, South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 21st century
“Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,” writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey through the continent he knows and loves best. Theroux first came to Africa as a twenty-two-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, and...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
This is the story of a woman who refuses to mourn her husband’s death. The village knew she was an unhappy wife, but she is still expected to weep and speak the praises of her husband. Her story reveals...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2
Threatened with Internment for the duration of World War II, two young German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, sought refuge in the Namib Desert and lived a Robinson Crusoe existence for two and a half years. How they...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
The “Skeleton Coast”, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean in south-western Africa, is named after the bleached bones and shipwrecks that lie on its shores. This is Benedict Allen’s account of his thousand-mile trek with camels through...
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