The Karoo is a vast semi-desert region that extends across parts of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This environmentally important area is the largest ecosystem in the country and is abundant in wildlife, vegetation, and ancient history. The Plains of Camdeboo is a celebration of this remarkable landscape. At first encounter the Karoo may seem arid, desolate and unforgiving, but to those who know it, it is a land of secret beauty and infinite variety. For generations author Eve Palmer's family have lived on the Karoo farm of Cranemere, situated on the Plains of Camdeboo. This family have battled for decades against this harsh desert; they have had to adapt to it, learning to fear, respect, and ultimately love it. First published in 1966, The Plains of Camdeboo has become a classic in South African literature. Here is a book that is not autobiography, not history, not botanical study, but all of these and more, blending into a uniquely vivid and personal account of life in the Karoo. The animals, the insects, the wealth of fossils, the countless flowers that spring miraculously to life after rain - all are woven into this rich and engaging story.
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Penguin Random House South Africa
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978-0-14-352896-8 (9780143528968)
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The late Eve Palmer was born in the Great Karoo. She graduated from London University and went on to be a reporter for The Rhodesia Herald and Pretoria News before focusing on her specialty as the editor of Veldtrust - a conservation magazine. In 1978, the South African Botanical Society honoured her with the Bolus Medal for her work on indigenous trees. She is the author of The Plains of Camdeboo, Return to Camdeboo, Trees of South Africa (which she later expanded, with Norah Pitman, into Trees of Southern Africa), as well as The South African Herbal, which received the Recht Malan Prize in 1986.
