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Upington, South Africa, the present dayAfter breakfast at Libby’s guesthouse Nick used his phone’s GPS to find the Kalahari Mall, where he stocked up on provisions for his road trip and bought a paper map of Namibia and a road atlas of Southern Africa at the Bargain Books shop.
Electronic devices were good for getting from point A to point B, but useless for situational awareness. He wanted to take a soldier’s – or perhaps a rebel commander’s – look at the distances he would have to cover in the next few days, and where everything was in relation to everything else.
He had his second cup of coffee for the day at the Mugg & Bean in the mall while he studied his map. The first thing that hit him was the vastness of the distances that Blake had travelled in the course of his
