The sheltering desert
By: by Henno Martin ; translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald
Publisher: W. Kimber
Published: 1957
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 234
Work titles: Wenn es Krieg gibt, gehen wir in die Wüste
Description: "In 1935 [Henno Martin] left Germany together with his friend and colleague, Hermann Korn, to do geological research in South-West-Africa. At the outbreak of World War Two they fled into the Namib desert, where they lived for two and half years. The undescribable physical and mental hardship they had to [bear] is described in this book."--P.[2].