A Dodge in the Desert

Roger Gaisford unpicks the mystery of a World War Two-era truck found abandoned in a Namibian desert

‘Jan buried him in the sand close to the rock wall, heaping rocks over his grave to keep hyenas at bay’

The Entendeka mountains were a wild and forbidding place

Namibia is a desert country of about two million people, the majority living in the principal town, Windhoek (Windy Corner). The county covers around 800km2 in the south west of Africa. Its boundary in the west is the dry and barren Atlantic Ocean coastline, while the northern boundary with Angola consists partly of the lower reaches of the Kunene River which flows through rugged desert to the sea.

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