Jonathan Laverick, Kalahari Killings

Abstract

Kalahari Killings is a nonfi ction historical book by Jonathan Laverick published by the United Kingdom (UK) based publisher, The History Press. Laverick lives in Botswana and has done for many years. He is currently a teacher at Maruapula Secondary School in Gaborone. The book is about the killing of two British pilots, Gordon Edwards and Walter Adamson, who were training to become pilots in military camps in Zimbabwe (then called Southern Rhodesia) during the Second World War. On a routine exercise in October 1943, they got off track, ran out of fuel, and landed in the bush some distance away from Nata in the then Bechuanaland. They leave a note explaining that the plane needs oil and fuel, and that they are going to walk to get help. They were never seen again.