by Gordon | May 21, 2011 | Exploration
Gerhard Rohlfs was born near Bremen in 1831. His career was blundering and calamitous but a dogged determination won him some remarkable achievements: he was the first to discover the Great Sand Sea though he failed to breach it; the first to visit the remote oasis of...
by Gordon | Apr 20, 2011 | Exploration
When a tragic love story is woven around the lives of real people and a film is made of it with powerful performances acted out in a landscape of haunting beauty, fiction trumps fact, artistic licence prevails and a landscape becomes part of our...
