On Route in South Africa (Sunbird)

Title: On Route in South Africa
Author: B.P.J. Erasmus;
Type: Travel Guide/Atlas
Imprint: Sunbird Publishers
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
3rd. edition. Johannesburg, South Africa 2014
ISBN 9781920289645 / ISBN 978-1-920289-64-5
Softcover, 22 x 30 cm, 368 pages, throughout colour photos and maps

Description:

This new edition of On Route in South Africa takes an in-depth look at the myriad villages, towns and cities that combine to make South Africa such a fascinating country in which to travel. The focus is on the informative and often intriguing tales these places have to tell. Described in detail, toor are the origins of the localities and their names, their growth over the decades - and their present-day character and attractions. The book ignores political boundaries andr instead, divides the country into established and coherent geographic or demographic areas. Included are detailed regional maps, complemented by route directions within the text; the 37 chapters are arranged in logical sequence, beginning with Cape Town and radiating outwards.

Collectively, these divisions portray a land of immense diversity, one that ranges from the green and pleasant valleys of the Cape hinterland through the wind-blown western sandveld to the subtropical lushness of the east, from the great bushveld spaces of the northeast to the arid wildernesses of the northwest, from big and busy metropolises to tiny hamlets that sleep soundly in the sun. The canvas is broad, the picture illuminating. With its expanded text, its more than 500 photographs and 37 detailed maps, On Route in South Africa contains a remarkable wealth of information, whether it be for the dedicated or the armchair traveller, the tourist or the ardent historian.

Content: On Route in South Africa

The Fairest Cape
The Boland
The Warm Bokkeveld
Swartland
The Sandveld
The West Coast
Olifants River Valley
The Overberg
Little Karoo
The Garden Route
The Langkloof and beyond
Namaqualand
Bushmanland
Orange River Valley
The Great Northwest
Central Karoo
The Koup
The Camdeboo
The Cape Midlands
Into the Land of the Dragon
Settler Country
The Transkei Region
Southern KwaZulu-Natal
The Eastern Seaboard
The Green Midlands
Land of Remembrance
Northeastern KwaZulu-Natal
The Lowveld
The Great Escarpment
The Highveld
The Bushveld
The Western Maizelands
The Heartland
The Riemland
Eastern Free State
Free State Goldfields
Western Free State
Photographic credits
Index