Who is Papa Heinrick from Skeleton Coast and what is their importance? Skeleton_Coast_(novel) English & Literature Papa Heinrick | Skeleton Coast

Namibian fisherman, Heinrick is at least part bushman and lives in a cabin isolated at the far side of Sandwich Bay and concealed by an overgrowth of reeds. He is a wizened old man with bandy legs that is so thin that each rib across his chest shows and there are hollows on both sides of his collarbone. Horn earrings pierce his large jug sized ears and he has a flat, broad nose. His eyes are bright though yellow, and his hair is white. His tiny stature is at odds with his self image, and he lays claim to having lost enough fishing line to stretch from his home to Cape Cross Bay and back, eighty miles to the north. He has no use for money, and though reluctant, he shares some of his experience with Sloane.