The Sheltering Desert
A Classic Tale of Escape and Survival in the Vastness of the Namib Desert
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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.
The Sheltering Desert tells the story of two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, who were sent to the former South West Africa in 1935 to do research on the Naukluft. After the outbreak of the Second World War, they chose to live and survive like Bushmen in the Namib Desert rather than face internment for the duration of the war.