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...First of the new mergers was that of South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana's Gemsbok National Park to create the Kgalagadi - meaning "land of thirst" - a 38,000-sq-km wilderness in which tourists and animals can move freely across the two countries' borders. Since the park's formal opening last May, tourist traffic has increased threefold to around 150,000 visitors a year. A Peace Parks Club offers tours that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced San, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...
...Hold on!" yells Rhonda Stelmach as she guns her four-wheeler up a hill on her 300-acre ranch near Boerne, Texas. Limestone rocks fly as the ATV chews up the steep slope. Ahead of her, a pair of African gemsbok antelope are running. At the summit, she pauses to drink in the view--and the silence--while the gemsboks peer at her from behind a live oak. "It was their hill before, but now we all share," she says, pointing out the sable and red lechwe antelope hiding nearby...
...which marks its centennial this year, Chief Joao Makuleke and his tribe have reclaimed ancestral land on which they will be allowed to operate tourist lodges in cooperation with the private sector and the park's board. In a similar land-restitution deal in the northwestern Cape's Kalahari Gemsbok Park, descendants of the San, or bushmen, will soon be offering visitors the chance to accompany them on a game trail and learn the secrets of their legendary tracking skills...
...named after the Namib Desert, a broiling blanket of sand where almost nothing can live but the gemsbok, an antelope-like creature that gets its moisture from desert grass...
...from heat and starvation seems remote when Susannah lazes by a fresh-water pool while Whitman strides forth fully armed, bagging big and small game with reassuring regularity. Kalahari is most effective when it shows men pushed to the last extremity, as in the brutal spectacle of a wounded gemsbok being slaughtered for food, or in Whitman's climactic hand-to-hand combat with the baboons' snarling leader. Though ferociously exciting in itself, this bout between man and beast in the wilderness only points up the failings of a movie that hasn't yet gone primitive when...
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