Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.