Wild Karoo: A journey through history, change and revival in an ancient land (Mitch Reardon)

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Wild Karoo: A journey through history, change and revival in an ancient land

Mitch Reardon
ISBN 10: 1775843254 / ISBN 13: 9781775843252
After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo South Africas parched heartland is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction is rapidly gaining popularity with visitors who now make the Karoo their destination, keen to partake of its legendary charm, its extraordinary flora and the resurgence of wildlife that once again populates its plains. 
 
Wild Karoo documents Mitch Reardons 4,000-kilometre journey of discovery through the region. The book focuses on:
local nature conservation in all its facets
the game, large and small some recently reintroduced plus birds, reptiles and invertebrates
the unique, arid-adapted flora
the landscape and geology
the history and lifestyle of the people who have made a home here
plans to combine public and private protected land to create wildlife corridors between isolated parks, re-establishing old migration routes and so reversing some of the effects of human settlement
Beautifully written, and illustrated with evocative photographs, this book is a must read for anyone interested in travel, wildlife and the environment.
 
'One of the best written, informative and just plain enjoyable of all the South African natural history books Ive read in the past 60 years of reviewing such books. ' - James Clarke (author, journalist & co-founder of EWT)

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