The Skeleton Coast: A Journey Through the Namib Desert
- ISBN-10
- 0563371811
- ISBN-13
- 9780563371816
- Category
- Adventures and adventurers
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01
Description
The Skeleton Coast, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean in south-western Africa, is named after the bleached bones and shipwrecks that lie on its shores. This is Benedict Allen's account of his thousand-mile trek with camels through the Namib Desert and along the Skeleton Coast.
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