The Lost City of the Kalahari
work by Paton
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"The Lost City of the Kalahari" is a chronicle by Alan Paton detailing his participation in an unsuccessful 1956 expedition to find a mythical ruin in the Kalahari Desert. This work was published posthumously in 2005 and expanded with images and maps. The Kalahari Desert itself is a vast, sand-covered plain in Southern Africa, occupying much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is characterized by sand sheets, dunes, and dry lake beds called pans, with a climate that ranges from arid to semi-arid.123
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