PRIVATE GAME | WILDLIFE RANCHING

WILD KAROO

Author: Mitch Reardon

Published by: Penguin Random House South Africa/Struik Nature

Format: A3 soft cover with full-colour photos and maps

Pages: 224

ISBN: 9781775843252

Recommended retail price: R270

Mitch Reardon has written a richly illustrated account of his journey through the Karoo, investigating its human history, natural history, and the nature reserves created to preserve biodiversity and endangered species. It is part tour guide, part historical account of the Karoo’s ancient and modern history – a celebration of its uniqueness as a wilderness and its hopeful future with the rise of ecotourism.

In an introductory chapter, Reardon explains that the term ‘Karoo’ designates the vast, high-lying, mostly arid inland plateau of South Africa. Two

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