SOUTH AFRICAN-BOOK
Discovering the Great Karoo
Published: 20-JAN-05
Karoo Moons � A Photographic Journey, by Richard Dobson and
Ruben Mowszowski. Published by Struik
Those who have driven through South Africa, from
the Money City of Johannesburg to the Mother
City of Cape Town, will know all too well the Great
Karoo, a vast arid region in the middle of the
country.
But those impatient holidaymakers who speed through the
tumbleweed-fl anked roads of the Karoo in air-conditioned comfort
are doing themselves a disservice, as this book points out in
beautifully rendered detail.
Far better to take several days and �drive its dusty roads, to
wander its hills and valleys, and to talk to its wonderful inhabitants�,
as Dobson puts it. Explore towns with names like Hopetown,
Three Sisters, Prince Albert and Richmond, and areas like
the Valley of Desolation and Die Hel (The Hell).
You will share this dramatic remoteness with landless wanderers
and miscreants, numerous windmills which hint at water
below
the surface, giant prehistoric animals embedded in stone,
5000 year old rock engravings and lichens growing on rocks
where years can pass with not a drop or rain � and finally realize
that people have carved a living out of this seeming emptiness
for years.
This is a book which is every bit as compelling as the landscape
it seeks to explore.
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