Essence of a Land
South Africa and its World Heritage Sites
Photography by Tim Hauf • Introduced by Max du Preez
Photographer Tim Hauf and writer Max du Preez blend their superb talents to capture the Essence of a Land, a book on South Africa and its World Heritage Sites with contributing authors who are specialists on the sites.
Essence of a Land tells the previously untold stories with astounding photos of Vredefort Dome, Cradle of Humankind, the Cape Floral Kingdom, the uKhahlamba/Drakensberg National Park, Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Greater St.Lucia Wetland Park and Robben Island. This book is a highly readable and informative, yet visually very attractive book - the first on South Africa's seven World Heritage Sites.
Essence of a Land is not only ideal reading for visitors and tourists to South Africa, but indeed for all South Africans, young and old, as it tells a stroy of the South African Heritage as never told before.
232 pages (includes free screensaver CD)
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