3 Quotes by Michael Parfitt

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    The locals appropriately named it "Death Island". Some historians even refer to this period as the Herero and Nama genocide. Knowing the history gives this place an eerie, almost host-like aura. Not sure, in fact, if want to be sleeping here tonight.

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  • Author Michael Parfitt
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    He stops about 30 m away in a cloud of dust, turns and goes off, trumpeting loudly. Seconds later he comes rushing back back again, throwing a full-on elephant teenage-tantrum, even ripping up vegetation and throwing it into the air with his trunk.

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