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We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. How they mastered their situation, what they did, thought and observed are the subject of the sheltering desert. In this shelter the two german geologists henno martin and hermann korn stayed from the end of january 1941 until october 1941 to avoid south african internment during world war ii. As germans they did not want to be interned and so lived, or rather existed, with tenacity in the desert, along with their dog otto. At the outbreak of world war two they fled into the namib desert, where they lived for two and a half.
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Henno martin and his scientific sidekick hermann korn and their dog otto, german nationals unsympathetic to the nazi cause, decide to spend the duration of world war ii in the namib desert to escape being drafted into the german army. The sheltering desert by henno martin, 9783935453035, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. A game of thrones, a clash of kings, a storm of swords, a feast for crows, a dance with dragons a song of ice and fire george r. In it lies the vastness of the landscape, 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. A classic tale of escape and survival in the namib desert. Henno martins the sheltering desert a handbook for desert archaeologists.
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