The roof of Africa

By David Coulson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030717663
• ISBN13: 9780030717666
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great taste of far country most of us will never see.

The Drakensberg, "Dragon Range", is the highest continuous range of peaks in southern Africa, reaching over 10,000 feet elevation in at least one summit. It contains the world's second highest waterfall,(Tugela), and is home to such alien things as ice and snow in the Southern winter. The Drakensberg is essentially a series of interrupted basalt plateaus, in layers laid down millions of years ago, and contains spectacular cliffs, gorges, and formations. It runs through southern and eastern South Africa and Lesotho for several hundred miles, and is the home of much novel wildlife and flora. It contains both rain forest and desert and, were it in Europe or America, the Drakensberg would be far more widely regarded for what it is, a true natural wonder. This book brings all these facts, and many more, into focus about this marvelous feature, and in a well-written, excellently organized text makes one pine to be there. The photographs are in color and large enough so that the reader enjoys a sense of detail not found in many travel books. There is also fine discussion about the wildlife and human history of the region. I recommend this book most highly for any armchair traveler who enjoys reading about far-off, exotic places.