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The Rift is a geological trough of diverging continental plates, which runs from the Lebanon/Syria border in the north, through Ethiopia* Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambique in the south — a distance of over 3,700 miles. Along its course are some of the deepest and hottest places an the planet passing through hostile environments, past wars, bandits wad the aaati** sionai lust Frenchman.
It is the birthplace of man, and contains the deepest and hottest places cm the Earth. and cultures untouched until recently by modernization, Johns h«r> read about these places as a youth — Hemingway and British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger — and had always dreamed of going there.
"That camel picture.'* as he called it was one of the first pictures he took in Africa, in a tiny country an the Gulf of Aden wedged between Ethiopia and Somalia called Djibouti.
Johns met his wife there - who winked for the USIAin Ethiopia - and both she ami her boss (the late John Burns of the US. Embassy in Addis Abbaba) were instrumental in getting him access to places like the Dunakil Depression. and the Rift Valiev
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