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Kalahari Desert

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  • noun a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana

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  • It includes the great plain called the Kalahari Desert, which is remarkable for little water and very considerable vegetation.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Towards the north and east, this mountainous district passes over into the undulating plain of the Omaheke and the Kalahari Desert, which is crossed by dry river-beds and is sparsely inhabited.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • In the film, their life is turned upside-down when a Coca-Cola bottle is thrown out the window of a light airplane flying over the Kalahari Desert.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • The beginning spiritual landscape is the Kalahari Desert, which has one tree, sometimes depicted as a camelthorn tree and at other times a baobab tree, like the one on the cover of the book.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • All this is orchestrated far above the Kalahari Desert, far above the great southern sky, far above the ever-turning Earth, far above the twinkling stars where the Bushmen believe all great dancers eventually find their original home.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • The Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is one of the most remote wilderness areas in the world.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Group helped Bushmen of Kalahari Desert go to court to regain rights

    Survival International Spotlights Tribal Rights Abuses 2011

  • The Bushmen, whose unique spoken language includes a variety of tongue clicks, today number between 50,000 and 100,000 people, most of who live on the flat, dry and scrubby edge of the Kalahari Desert, on the fringes of human society.

    Modern Humans Traced to Southern African Bushmen 2011

  • The Kalahari Desert comprises much of its land area.

    Africa Hungers for Good Governance 2011

  • The San of the Kalahari Desert, considered by some anthropologists to be the world's oldest ethnic group, still hunt in a way devised long, long ago on the grasslands of Africa: Choose your prey, follow it, harass it, don't let it rest.

    Michael Boblett: Dogs Make Great Running Coaches! Michael Boblett 2010

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