South Africa: A visual tour through its regions

"South Africa: A visual tour through its regions" is a nicely made coffee-table book of a middle-sized scale.
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Title: South Africa
Subtitle: A visual tour through its regions
Author: Toast Coetzer; Samantha Reinders
Genre: Illustrated book
Imprint: Sunbird Publishers
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Johannesburg, South Africa 2010
ISBN 9781920289119 / ISBN 978-1-920289-11-9
Hardcover, 20 x 20 cm, 160 pages, 200 colour photos

Description:

For all the diversity of the African continent, no other African country comes close to South Africa's engaging mix of interesting people, varied landscape, pleasant climate and abundant wildlife. Close on 50 million people are spread throughout the country's nine provinces and though English is widely spoken, ten other official languages, and many more unofficial ones, can be heard in the cities, towns and rural areas. This means there are diverse cultures to explore, a tantalising array of dishes to sample and many a traveller's tale to be borne from the fascinating people you will meet along the way. And its people have come from everywhere. From the First People, the Bushmen and their descendants, the once pastoral Khoi, the Nguni-speaking groups such as the Xhosa and the Zulu, the Bantu-speaking groups such as the Sotho and the Tswana and the European settlers, primarily Dutch, Germans, French and British, who followed in the wake of Portuguese explorers such as Diaz and Da Gama, South Africans have moulded a complex national identity within which all the different groups have found a home. The landscape is almost as hard to pin down, for it may all be contained within the same borders, but in appearance it is wildly different. "South Africa: A visual tour through its regions" is a nicely made coffee-table book that will introduce this part of Africa to you by concise texts and wonderful photography.