WAR, DROUGHT, POACHING IN THE NAMIB DESERT. THE BESIEGED IN SOUTH AFRICA

1986 first edition A4 size hardcover with dust jacket and 156 pages in good condition. R60 postage in SA. Namibia, SWA, South West Africa, Suidwes-Afrika.   Northwest Namibia is a desert - rugged, utterly uncompromising, frequently beautiful and always fascinating. It comprises two adjoining tribal homelands. Damaraland and Koakoland, and until recently was virtually untouched by the intrusive influence of the technological age. Here live great herbivores such as elephants, rhinos, and giraffe, in an environment unlike any other in Africa. Living amongst them are Himba Pastoralists, a tribe that time has left behind. The author joined the area's resident ecologist, Garth Owen-Smith, to see for himself what has happened here. This book deals with the people they met and the wildlife encountered - it tackles the problems caused by the war between the South African Army ad the Swapo guerillas which spilled over into this area; the poaching that is going on there, and the effects of a crippling five-year drought.