Letters from the Skeleton Coast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781483468242)

It is 1942 when the Dunedin Star runs aground on the desolate Skeleton Coast of Southwest Africa while carrying supplies and ammunition to Egypt. Among the passengers is Alison Habib, a young Scottish woman traveling from England to Cairo with her Egyptian doctor husband and their eighteen-month-old daughter, Caroline. A convoy of South African Army trucks and twenty-eight men are sent across seven hundred miles of uncharted barren mountains and hot desert sands to rescue the survivors. Finally twenty-six days after the shipwreck, the exhausted passengers and stranded pilot arrive at the military outpost in Windhoek. But as sixty years pass, no one realizes that Alison is harboring a secret of what really happened on that beach. Through the pages of her diary and heartfelt letters, a poignant story of love, perseverance, and courage unfolds that reflects the commitment and values of another time

Author: Ken Jones
ISBN-10: 1483468240
ISBN-13: 9781483468242
Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2017
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.26d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001