Alice Mertens SouthWestAfrica1st ed Sudwestafrika/NAMIBIA-Eng/German tribal,landscape102 plates etc.

102 Full page black and white and 7 coloured plates of South-West Africa with English and German captions provide unique portrait of Namibia. South-West African semi-precious stones,Skeleton coast, Hoachanas oldest mission. Settlers from Germany followed the missionaries in the 1880's. Sheep and cattle farm, Fish-River Canyon Keetmanshoop,  `Droughts, Karakul lambs.  Duwisib, castle built by a nostalgic German Baron von Wolf, on edge of Namib Desert. Hereros.Lake Otjikoto, Koker Boom, Swakob River, Kuiseb Canyon, Kleinspitzkopje, Bushmen,Caves etc. etc.

 Mertens, Alice. SOUTH WEST AFRICA and Its Indigenous Peoples. Introduction by Stuart Cloete. Classic title on (now) Namibia.  Sudwestafrika is ein unendich weites, durres, wustenartiges Land.Rock paintings .  Miss. Mertens has travelled the length and breadth of the land - from Fish River Canyon and the Karakul estates of Duwisib to the curious cultural contrasts of Windhoek, famous paintings of the Brandweg and Erongo moutains solitary port of Walvis Bay, Etosha Pan, old German fort at Namutoni and distant territories of the Okavango and the Bushmen.

Collins. London 1966 1st ed. large hardback well-binded clean white pages with dust cover wear and few tear to edges and few folds in flap of dust cover, now in protective cover.