Gateway to Adventure

Gateway to Adventure: Policeman Pat Honeyborne's adventures and travels in then South West Africa.
Honeyborne, Pat
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Title: Gateway to Adventure
Author: Pat Honeyborne
Publisher: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers (Pty) Ltd
Reprint. Windhoek, Namibia 2022
ISBN 9789991604244 / ISBN 978-99916-0-424-4
Softcover, 15 x 21 cm, 231 pages, numerous b/w photographs

About: Gateway to Adventure

Over the years, Pat Honeyborne, who has served in the South West African Police from 1926 to 1945 and in the security staff of the Consolidated Diamond Mines in Oranjemund until his retirement in 1964, published a number of articles and contributions on a wide range of subjects in publications such as the SWA Annual and the Windhoek Advertiser. It would appear that it was always his intention to have these published in one volume, as this book is based on a collection of typescripts which he compiled. After his death in 1973, the file containing these typescripts and the first attempts at sourcing relevant photographic material was acquired by John Bester and submitted for publication with the consent and assistance of Pat Honeyborne's children. Had it not been for this twist of events, a considerable part of Pat Honeyborne's writings would have been lost to posterity. Every effort was made to illustrate this volume with contemporary photographs, in parts from Pat Honeyborne himself.

Content: Gateway to Adventure

Preface
Foreword
Gateway to Adventure
Window on a Past
Keetmanshoop's Two Famous Sons
The Fish River Canyon
Bloodbath at Swartmodder
At War with the Bushmen
More about the Bushmen
Walvis Bay
The British Secret Service
A Brush with Illegal Diamond Prospectors
Floods
Sandwich Harbour and Conception Bay
Swakopmund
Oranjemund and the Sperrgebiet
Thirst
Animals of the Sperrgebiet
Diamond Fever
Lüderitz
Ichaboe and Mercury Islands
An Old Man's Vision
Safari
The "White Lady" of the Brandberg
Twyfelfontein - Footprints on the Sands of Time
The Petrified Forest
Elephants
To the Skeleton Coast
Wreck and Rescue on the Skeleton Coast
Skeleton Coast to the Kunene River
The Dorslandtrek
Etosha
Namutoni
Glossary
Bibliography
Table of Illustrations

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