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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