ALICE MERTINS NAMIB Oldest desert history, golden mole, Welwitschia illus platesFIRST ED 1971

Namib has many faces, some of them forbidding and cruel, some of them beautiful, all fascinating.Treasure cove with stunning colour and black and white photograph plates 96 black and white illustrations and 7 colour illustrations with text and caption of photos in German and English. Photos: Cape Cross, Aerial views of Namib,Camelthorn, kokerboom, dunes, dustry tracks, weaver birds communicty nest in Camelthorn tree, Fish River Canyon, Sossus Vlei, Dying trees, Ses-Riem Gorge-(takes 6 oxwagon tied together to get a bucket of water from the pool at the bottom, farms at edge of river, Drought, Duwishi Castle built by German Baron von Wolf,Bethanie, Bogenfels, a huge rock arch, Diamonds Oranjemund, Shipwrecks, ostriches, herd of Oryx, Kuiseb Canyon,Walvis Bay,  Gobabeth desert research station, Mirabilis, animals, flowers on dunes, Seakopmund, graves in desert, Topnaar woman, cormorants, flamingoes, paintings in caves, Skeleton coast, Dias cross etc.

Brown hardback 1st edition 1971 with maps and foldout papers with German captions and text. Hardback good condition, well binded, clear and clean pages with lovely photographs. Dust cover has a  big tear out.