Lake Turkana - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The lake is featured in Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John le CarrĂ©, although some of the footage was actually filmed at Lake Magadi.
  • In his book A Lifetime with Lions, George Adamson describes various adventures along Lake Turkana.
  • The travel writer John Hillaby describes a camel safari undertaken along the shore of the lake in his 1964 book Journey to the Jade Sea.
  • Eyelids of the Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men by Alistair Graham and Peter Hill Beard, originally published in 1973
  • In Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, the Zohar is located in the lake.
  • In Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel In Desert and Wilderness, the protagonists pass through the settlements on Lake Turkana and befriend the natives.

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