AN EPIC COASTAL TRIP
In the early summer of 2005, travel writers Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit set out on an extended trip that would span the 3,200 km coastline from Alexander Bay on the southern edge of Namibia to Kosi Bay on the Mozambican border.
On their three-month journey, they met the weird and the wonderful, the criminal and the crazy elements of seaside South Africa.
Shorelines is all about diamond divers, surfers, skippers home from the sea, fishermen, smart baboons, dodgy developers, Rastafarians, Cadillac collectors, forest adventurers, Xhosa nannies, sushi chefs, Zulu shield-makers, abalone poachers and a modern-day Robinson Crusoe.
It’s a generous slice of South African life, with all its foibles, squabbles and the occasional homicidal oyster. Come in, the water’s fine – for now…
Coast to Coast is an illustrated coffee table book that celebrates beach life in South Africa.
From the misty western Diamond Coast of Alexander Bay, Port Nolloth and Kleinzee down to the Cape Peninsula, across the Agulhas Plains, along the Garden Route, up into the Sunshine Coast to the Wild Coast, the South Coast and the North Coast where the road ends at Kosi Bay, this book is a meandering journey through all our seasides.
Travelling with the well-known lifestyle authors Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit in the spring of 2005, you experience places familiar and strange and meet the people who make their living by the sea. You might well have to fight that urge to go hunting for a bucket, a spade and an umbrella.
Coast to Coast is the kind of gift you hand over to someone who has just bought a beach cottage, who’s thinking of moving to a seaside village or, simply, a person with a yen for hanging about at the ocean’s edge.
As a Two-Book Special, Coast to Coast is perfect for your coffee table, while Shorelines is a great bedside reader. The authors are offering Coast to Coast and Shorelines for only R560, including courier costs in South Africa. Enquiries: julie@karoospace.co.za
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