Extract from Skeleton Coast: Africa’s Last Wilderness by Thorsten Milse

Namibiana Buchdepot invites you to read the introduction and foreword to Thorsten Milse’s photographic collection, Skeleton Coast: Africa’s Last Wilderness. The foreword is written by Rod Braby, former manager of the Skeleton Coast Park and coordinator of the Namibian Coast Conservation and Management Project (NACOMA):

I worked as a park ranger along the Namibian coastline for over 20 years, and I regard it as a special honour, and of the utmost importance, to contribute the foreword to this truly exceptional book. I hope that these photographs will enable those indigenous to the region, as well as visitors to Namibia, to realise the true value of the Namib Desert. Hopefully, it will not only shake up the Namibians themselves, but also draw global attention to Africa’s rugged paradise – the Skeleton Coast. Generally speaking, the Skeleton Coast refers to the stretch of coastal land, approximately 600 kilometres in length, that extends from Cape Cross to the mouth of the Kunene River. It forms the northwestern section of the proposed Namib-Skeleton Coast National Park. To the east of this proposed park lies the Etosha National Park, and in the south and north it adjoins national park areas in both South Africa and Angola: the Richtersveld National Park and Parque Nacional do lona, respectively. This vast area represents the largest contiguous, transfrontier nature-conservation area in Africa, and the sixth largest worldwide. Another distinctive feature is that Namibia is the only country in the world whose entire coastline – with the exception of its coastal settlements – is protected. Before Western civilisation reached this coast, it was populated by nomadic peoples who lived off seafood, stranded sea mammals and fresh water from the mouths of rivers that supply water intermittently. These nomads followed the transient courses of rivers and dared to venture inland in search of a more diversified food supply and to escape the raw coastal winds.

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