Karoo Lawrence G Green

Karoo 

Author: Lawrence G Green 

Publisher: Howard Timmins, Cape Town, South Africa   

Edition: 1975 Reprint 

ISBN: 0 86978 047 6  

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Scattered foxing   

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket         

Pages: 248. Print with illustrations    

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LAWRENCE G. GREEN tells the story of the Karoo regions of South Africa in this new book the Great Karoo, Little Karoo and the far corners of the North West Cape and Namaqualand.

He describes, vividly as always, those great spaces which exert such a peculiar spell over many who pass through them. Here are impressions which will strike answering chords in the hearts of South Africans.

When, far too early, the steward rattled and snapped on the lights and came in with the strong aroma of railway coffee, it was the Great Karoo, he writes. All through lunch, from groentesop to pumpkin fritters, it was karoo. You might linger over your afternoon tea, your dinner, your night-cap in the dining-car, but the landscape framed in the broad windows was still karoo, karoo, karoo. Even in the darkness it was unmistakable. And when the next dawn came the train had not yet passed out of the Great Karoo.

Lawrence Green brings the empty spaces of the karoo to life in this book. He shows you the karoo of the Bushmen and the baboons, the springbok and jackals and sheep: karoo mountains and rivers: the patriarchs and other great characters living in karoo solitudes. This is undoubtedly Lawrence Greens finest and most moving work.

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Karoo | Lawrence Green