Hidden Karoo

Hidden Karoo offers a glimpse into towns and villages, farms and churches, public buildings and private homes, all against a backdrop of awe-inspiring landscapes.
Proust, Alain; Kramer, Patricia
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Title: Hidden Karoo
Author: Patricia Kramer
Photographer: Alain Proust
Genre: photo book
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Lifestyle
Cape Town, South Africa 2021
ISBN 9781432310042 / ISBN 978-1-43-231004-2
Hardcover, 26 x 27 cm, 304 pages, throughout colour photographs, 1 map

About: Hidden Karoo

The Karoo provides a highly variegated landscape over the vast geographic area it occupies in central South Africa, and its history is written in the farms, villages and towns with their diverse domestic and public buildings. It is, above all else, big sky country As Olive Schreiner observed, lowering one's gaze from the wonderful sky and the distant horizon equally richly rewards the visitor. Although a few towns are better known - Matjiesfontein and Graaff-Reinet spring to mind - there are many that are less known; some hardly at all. Like its companion titles (featuring Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria), Hidden Karoo aims to uncover the hidden architectural treasures of the Karoo against the backdrop of a photographic portrait of the region's awe-inspiring landscapes and the buildings that occupy them. One of the central themes of the 'Hidden' series of books is that, amidst the constant change the country is experiencing, our built heritage remains under threat and in need of preservation. Documenting the state of our heritage is one of the ways in which concerned South Africans can raise awareness of what might be lost and, perhaps, persuade a few dedicated individuals to challenge the authorities to pay more attention to the relevance of conservation and the importance of preserving all aspects of our national cultural identity Fortunately the Karoo has no shortage of pioneers who understand this.

Content: Hidden Karoo

INTRODUCTION
Map
ROAD AND RAILWAY INTERTWINED
IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWARTBERG
Prince Albert, a town of gables
CAMDEBOO TO SNEEUBERG
THE EASTERN KAROO
Forts and blockhouses
HEART OF THE KAROO
Nagmaalhuise
A LAND OF WIDE OPEN SPACES
Golden fleece of the Karoo
Corrugated-iron veranda roofs
Corbelled buildings
LAND OF FLOWERS AND STARS
Dutch Reformed Churches
Modern DRC architecture
LITTLE KAROO
Ostrich feather palaces
Down the Buff els drift Valley
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES

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