Translation of haven in German

So it tipped excessively. I mean, she was around sixty or seventy years old. Anyway, we left the boat and embarked on a larger one which took us to a hidden community in the middle of the delta.
The books had cost only two or three dollars, cheap even for second hand books and after buying them I discovered that these were actually copied books and not used books. It was too late.
The drive to these lagoons was not easy. The jeep did not have air conditioning, so that in the sun it would get extremely hot and in the shade extremely cold. The jeeps were around 15 years old.