Synopsis

Across all of Africa, few enigmas are as striking as the flowering of Namaqualand. These bushmen were the first to witness their desert land erupt into an astonishing display of color. Yet, this paradise proved fleeting; a spectacular bloom that swiftly faded, vanishing for years afterward. Rodney Borland captured the most recent of these remarkable and bewildering spectacles. To a landscape already unusual with towering *Euphorbia* plants, elephant ears, and baboons' fingers, appeared vast fiel