The Kalahari Desert in Popular Culture
- Sands of the Kalahari, 1965 film
- KALAHARI - Magnificent Desert, coffee-table book by Erwin Niemand and Nicoleen Niemand, spending 2 years photographing this magnificent desert.
- A Far Off Place, film, starring Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Randall, based on the books A Story Like the Wind and A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post
- The Gods Must Be Crazy, film
- Lost in the Desert, film
- The Lion King, film
- Animals are Beautiful People, film released in 1974
- Meerkat Manor, television series documenting the Kalahari Meerkat Project
- Survivorman, survival television series
- Top Gear, British television series, featuring an episode following a desert challenge in which Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May attempt to drive three old cars across Botswana, including the Kalahari Desert
- The Power of the Sword, novel by Wilbur Smith
- Lions of the Kalahari, song by Sam Roberts
- The Lost World of The Kalahari, novel by Laurens van der Post
- Mario Kart 64, a video game for the Nintendo 64 features a racetrack called Kalimari Desert
- Lead the Meerkats, a video game available on Nintendo WiiWare
- Kalahari Resorts, indoor waterpark (largest in America) in Sandusky, OH and Wisconsin Dells, WI
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, fiction novel series about a ladies' detective agency in Botswana. Mentions the Kalahari Desert frequently throughout the series.
- Tornado and the Kalahari Horse Whisperer, film released in 2009
- Skeleton Coast, novel by Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul copyright 2006
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Famous quotes containing the words desert, popular and/or culture:
“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air- conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)