The Strange Land is a 1954 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was released in the United States by Knopf under the alternative title The Naked Land.Vinson & Kirkpatrick p.455
It is set in the far south of French Morocco, where a mission station is awaiting the arrival of a new Czech Doctor.
References
Bibliography James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press, 1986.