| Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
| Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
| Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
Condition: Near fine. Clean boards and bright dust jacket with light edge rubbing. Internally immaculate crisp pages, vivid photographic plates, and strong binding. A very attractive copy of a definitive South African outdoor classic.
Bristows approach is both practical and poetic. He captures the geological drama and ecological nuance of each region while providing essential logistical notes: trail length, terrain, difficulty, and seasonal advice. The book serves not only as a hikers guide but as a portrait of South Africas natural variety fynbos-covered mountains, subtropical forests, arid escarpments, and coastal wildernesses.
What distinguishes this volume is Bristows ability to marry physical geography with human experience. His text situates each hike within its cultural and environmental context, making the book equally valuable to the naturalist, the traveller, and the armchair explorer.
