Journey Through South Africa

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South Africa is a country facing great challenges, and opin-
ions 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, of-
ten 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 general 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 what to
see and do: mountains of breathtaking grandeur, some
snow-capped in winter; deserts of sand and scrub and heat-
hazed 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 count-
less splendours and, above all, a wildlife and floral abun-
dance 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 some 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 also reaches into many seldom-
visited byways. Peter Joyce's text and captions are an ideal
companion to Cubitt's splendid photographs, providing a
wealth of information about South Africa, presented in a re-
laxed 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 ideal gift to family and friends overseas, and a
wonderful memento for those who have made their own
journey through the land. Vissza