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PUBLISHED. Jonathan Ball Publishers SA,
Overall Condition: Fine
Original laminated pictorial boards that have the same design as the dust jacket. Unpaginated.
Boards are a little edge worn on top and bottom edges, otherwise in a very good condition. DJ with protective Brodart book jacket cover. DJ in Very Good condition but for discolouration.
The contents are clean and neat. Binding is tight and secure. A near fine copy. End papers are a mauve pink colour.
The circle is the most perfect of all things
With the words of his old maths teacher echoing through his memory, Obie Oberholzer, compass in hand, planned a new pictorial journey (having caught his breath after his recent trip from Ariesfontein to Zuurfontein) and traced a circular route around Southern Africa.
Departing from Grahamstown on 1 May 1989 to the cheering of children and the barking of dogs, he began his 64 days journey covering a distance of 14 800 km.
With camera at the ready, he worked his way along a circle of contrasts traversing terrains of startling diversity and capturing the essence of each place in a series of vibrant photographic images. From the loneliest longdrop in Africa to Durbs by the Sea, from the sweeping vineyards of Stellenbosch to the Love Station brothel near Caprivi these are just some of the pit-stops along the circumference of a Southern Circle.
I look up or down and around, without a person for miles around. Makes you think being so close to all this vastness the sadness and gladness, the dust, the driving, warm elephant turds on the roadThings small and things big. I looked up into the stars and saw a passing satellite
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