Skeleton Coast Book
Herod : I hope you enjoy the book over Xmas. It is a tale of incredible bravery on the part of both those marooned on the coast and of the rescuers.
I have been to Namibia many times and flown up the coast viewing the many shipwrecks and abandoned gold mining 'towns'. It is a forbidding even frightening landscape.
We have also had adventures along the coast with an alternator failing in the desert and a few days later being caught in a sandstorm that blew a side window in on our Land Rover. And that was on the gravel and salt desert roads. Having to make their way across the dunes in such hostile terrain for many many miles to rescue people is unbelievably heroic. Maybe people were made of sterner stuff then?