Circling the Great Karoo
Subtitle: a back-roads journey though history on an old scrambler
By: Nicholas Yell.
Publisher: WritingInc
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Botriver, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780620420235
Subjects: Yell, Nicholas, -- 1961- -- Travels -- South Africa -- Great Karoo; Motorcycle touring -- South Africa -- Great Karoo; Great Karoo (South Africa) -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: No turning back (Aberdeen to Cradock: 275 kilometres); title: From Schreiner's tomb to a mineral spa bath (Cradock to Aliwal North: 260 kilometres); title: Across the Gariep into the highveld Karoo (Aliwal North to Trompsburg: 197 kilometres); title: Battlefields and diamonds (Trompsburg to Witput, between Belmont and Hopetown: 250 kilometres); title: Railways, river ways and a well full of laxatives (Witput via Belmont to Prieska: 221 kilometres); title: From the place of the lost goat to a dam of peace (Prieska to Boegoeberg Dam: 150 kilometres); title: From cool and rested to hot and bothered (Boegoeberg to Kenhardt via Groblershoop: 160 kilometres); title: Across the land of begin again (Kenhardt via Brandvlei to Loeriesfontein: 295 kilometres); title: More of the unexpected (Loeriesfontein to Calvinia: 89 kilometres); title: Over the hills and up to the stars (Calvinia to Sutherland, with an excursion to Fraserburg: 404 kilometres); title: Passes, poorts and pausing (Sutherland to Kruisrivier: 270 kilometres); title: Taking the long road home (rest day in Kruisrivier then the return trip home via Willowmore: 369 kilometres)