Okavango River: the flow of a lifeline

John Mendelsohn and Selma el Obeid
Struik Publishers (A division of New Holland Publishing (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd)

Okavango River: the flow of a lifeline describes the birth, passage and ending of the Okavango river system. It is a river that begins in remote, high-rainfall areas of war-torn south-eastern Angola, so clearly portrayed by the old Portuguese expression as terras do fim do Mundo – the place at the end of the Earth. The river then runs south, meandering across an increasingly dry environment, out of Angola, along and through Namibia, and then into Botswana...