Place

A place to be!

”Landscapes shape our personalities. The different geographies of South Africa have helped make the inhabitants who they are. There’s the Cape with its fickleness – one minute a Mediterranean idyll, the next a storm-lashed Atlantic crag; the Drakensberg with its moods, drama and churchliness; the lowveld is steamy, sultry and fanged; the Karoo is an expression of heat, dust and vastness. I am a product of Cape Town, of a western seaboard, a place of sunsets, mountains, beaches and an ocean deeply blue and capricious. I have a visceral response to the fynbos and strandveld, granite and sandstone, vineyards and shorelines of this place, my place. How could it be otherwise? How could I be otherwise?”

Said Justin Fox in this incredible book of travels through South Africa!

There are many travelogues set in South Africa BUT this book is something unique. That’s why we decided to ask our friends from the Cape Town publishing agency Lennon Ritchie Agency for a permission to publish it in the UAE. In South Africa this literary journey is already sold out so they are preparing a second edition.

This is an incredible journey through the poetic landscapes, peoples’ souls, literature and ideas.

A must-read for anyone who enjoys traveling and lyrical style.

Contents:

1. Spirits of Place
2. Moonlight Serenade: Olive Schreiner’s Eastern Karoo
3. Jock Befok: Sir Percy FitzPatrick’s Lowveld
4. Band of Broers: The Long Ride of Deneys Reitz
5. The Soul of the White Baboon: Eugène Marais’s Waterberg
6. Fireside Englikaans: Herman Charles Bosman’s Marico
7. Alone in All that Vastness: JM Coetzee’s Moordenaars Karoo
8. Like Wings Without Bodies: Dalene Matthee’s Knysna Forest
9. Red in Truth and Lore: Zakes Mda’s Wild Coast
10. Rock, Paper, Pen: Stephen Watson’s Cederberg
11. Praesidio

Collection Intimate guides

• A5 format
• Paperback

Read and excerpt below!