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Karen
Aug 10, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Henno Martin and his friend and colleague Hermann Korn were geologists in South-West Africa, (in current day Namibia) during the first years of WWII. They were threatened with Internment by the South African Administration, so they had said to each other that if the war caught up with them they would spend the war in the desert. They decided to do just that and take their dog Otto. After 4 days preparation, they moved into an area of the desert that would be hard to track.

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