Skeleton Coast

Through her captivating photographs and absorbing text, Amy Schoeman shares with the reader the strange beauties of the Skeleton Coast. The 160 photographs capture the life of the desert, its forms and colours, and the moods of its ever-changing landscapes, while the text details the geology, climate, richly diverse plant and animal life, the pattern of its history - from the early Portuguese explorers to the many mining ventures of the previous century -and the proclamation of the area as a park in 1971.