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# Top 10 Books(Namibia)
# Best Books of Adventure Affiliated With Southern Africa That Inspire
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The list below has the most read books of adventure reference to episodes that took place in Namibia and Southern Africa this set of books where written by Authors and published by studios from all around the world most of the protagonist in this stories have a fair amount of knowledge about the countries origins or are lead here by circumstances and personal endeavors some of the books are really old but have substantial support from adventure seekers throughout the world.
# 1.Tropic of Capricorn: A Remarkable Journey to the Forgotten Corners of the World by Simon Reeve
In Tropic of Capricorn, bestselling author Simon Reeve embarks on a 23,000-mile trek around the southernmost border of the tropics - a place of both amazing beauty and overwhelming human suffering.
# 2.MORENGA by Uwe Timm
Relations between German colonists and both Herero and Hottentot tribes grow dangerously strained in the former South West Africa (now Namibia) in the early 20th century—and a 34-year-old “Veterinary Lieutenant (i.e., “horse doctor’) identified as Gottschalk arrives.
# 3.The Sheltering Desert by Henno Martin
n 1935 [Henno Martin] left Germany together with his friend and colleague, Hermann Korn, to do geological research in South-West-Africa. At the outbreak of World War Two they fled into the Namib desert, where they lived for two and half years. The undescribable physical and mental hardship they had to [bear] is described in this book."
# 4.Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip by Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers and wife, Paige Parker set off in 1999 for a 3 year road trip around the word. 152,000 miles and 116 countries later, Jim sat down to write his thoughts and experiences in Adventure Capitalist. The book has massive appeal. It goes into the history, economics, and culture of each region.
# 5.V. by Thomas Pynchon
V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V." It was nominated for a National Book Award.
# 6.The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs by Damon Galgut
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991) has the undertones of brilliance that becomes prominent in Damon Galgut's later works – the poignant, serious notes and the underlying love affair with South Africa and men, but fails to go somewhere.
# 7.The Life and Work of Thomas Baines by Jane Carruthers
Jane Carruthers, Marion Arnold The Life and Work of Thomas Baines tells of one man's remarkable visual record of the expanding British Empire. Thomas Baines, well known as a Victorian artist and traveller in southern Africa, was able to straddle the fields of art and science with a flair that is lost to us today.
# 8.The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
About The Double Comfort Safari Club Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi head to a safari camp to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest who has left one of the guides a large sum of money. But once they find their man, Precious begins to sense that something is not right.
# 9.An Empty Coast by Tony Park
Sonja Kurtz - former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary - is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission when her daughter sends a call for help. Emma is on a dig at the edge of Namibia's Etosha National Park studying archaeology and she's
# 10.The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
About The Harmless People “A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review. In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa.
That's it for this weeks top 10 click The link below to E-mail the editor if there's something you'd like to share or want to clarify pertaining to this particular article thanks for reading and kind regards:-).
A little Honourable mention for the Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H. Knoll that didn't make the list, this time round but still loved by many in this part of the world.
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