The land god made in anger : Reflections on a journey through South West Africa / Jon Manchip White
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : George Allen & Unwin, 1969, Liverpool: Tinling and Co. L T DEdition: The Travel Book ClubDescription: 308 pages; 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- IRL 916.6881 WHI
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Namibia Scientific Society Library | Not for loan |
Includes index Contents Epilogue Acknowledgements
The Bushmen say of South West Africa," When God made this land, he must have been very angry." It is today a lonely, primitive, almost prehistoric land of bizarre contrasts. The Namib desert, probably the oldest desert in the world, is a desolate, waterless, almost rainless strip nine hundred miles long. Rising up out of the Namib is the diamond city Oranjemund where native workmen operating giant scrapers, bulldozers, and fifty-foot vacuum cleaners extract 6000 carats of fine diamonds every month........
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