Capricorn - Following the Invisible Line By Kingsley Holgate
Capricorn - Following the Invisible Line By Kingsley Holgate
Hardcover
ISBN 1868727815
Publisher: Struik Publishers 2003
Condition: Very Good. The original printed boards without a DJ are slightly shelf rubbed and edge worn/bumped. This book was read and enjoyed but is still overall very good. The book has no inscriptions and the binding is excellent.
"Capricorn -- Following the invisible line is legendary adventurer Kingsley Holgate's record of his journey around the world along the tropic of Capricorn. Kingsley, his wife, Gill, and their son, Ross - with different expedition members on each continent they crossed -- tackled everything the ten Capricorn countries could throw at them. Heading forever west along 23 27'S in their trusty Land Rovers Chuma and Susi, the hardy Capricorn expedition team braved unexploded landmines left over from the Mozambican civil war, the man-eating lions of the Kruger National Park as they crossed the reserve on foot, and the great Namib Desert. In South America they had the Andes to overcome and then the Atacama desert - driest place on planet earth. Australia's greatest obstacle was the endless parallel ridges of the vast Simpson desert, never before crossed by vehicle along the tropic. Madagascar, the final Capricorn country, was far from being the easiest. The team found themselves almost unable to continue, after days trekking on foot through the island's dense mountain forests."
"On 16 May 2001, Kingsley Holgate, intrepid adventurer, along with his wife, son and expedition team set off from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to follow the invisible line, the Tropic of Capricorn, which runs through ten countries on three continents and the island of Madagascar. The terrain covers bush, desert, mountain and some of the most inhospitable areas found on earth. Follow the expeditioners as they dodge landmines in Mozambique, face man-eating lions in South Africa's Kruger National Park, traverse the Kalahari desert in Botswana, before reaching the Atlantic where Namibia's red dune."
