Journey Through South Africa

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South Africa is a country facing great challenges, and opinions as to its course into the future are widely divergent and often the source of heated debate at home and abroad. It is a land of people of many different cultures and diverse, often conflicting, values - a mix which is at once the root of its great dilemma and the bud of its great potential. But on one thing there is generál accord - South Africa is a beautiful land and the much-heard marketing claim is no empty boast, for it is truly 'a world in one country'. The traveller is faced with an almost unlimited choice of whatto see and do: mountains of breathtaking grandeur, somé snow-capped in winter; deserts of sand and scrub and heathazed horizons; the great treeless plains of the interior; bushveld and woodland and lush wineland valley; the cliffs and hills and sun-drenched shores of a coastline of countless splendours and, above all, a wildlife and floral abundance that is unparalleled anywhere in the world. It is this... Tovább

Fülszöveg

South Africa is a country facing great challenges, and opinions as to its course into the future are widely divergent and often the source of heated debate at home and abroad. It is a land of people of many different cultures and diverse, often conflicting, values - a mix which is at once the root of its great dilemma and the bud of its great potential. But on one thing there is generál accord - South Africa is a beautiful land and the much-heard marketing claim is no empty boast, for it is truly 'a world in one country'. The traveller is faced with an almost unlimited choice of whatto see and do: mountains of breathtaking grandeur, somé snow-capped in winter; deserts of sand and scrub and heathazed horizons; the great treeless plains of the interior; bushveld and woodland and lush wineland valley; the cliffs and hills and sun-drenched shores of a coastline of countless splendours and, above all, a wildlife and floral abundance that is unparalleled anywhere in the world. It is this visual wonder that Gerald Cubitt has captured on film. Few photographers can have travelled as widely throughout South Africa as he has, photographing the land and its people. His work is acclaimed internationally, and from his extensive collection of pictures somé 500 of the best have been selected for Journey through South Africa, which takes the reader on a tour which not only reveals the expected highlights but alsó reaches into many seldomvisited byways. Peter joyce's text and captions are an ideál companion to Cubitt's splendid photographs, providing a wealth of information about South Africa, presented in a relaxed and eminently readable style. It is this combination of beautiful photographs and factual writing that makes Journey through South Africa a book for the home, an ideál gift to family and friends overseas, and a wonderful mementó for those who have made their own journey through the land. Vissza