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Boots in the Baviaans
In this his seventh book of journeys past and present in South Africa, Eastern Cape author Bartle Logie, accompanied by his wife Caryl, dons hiking boots to explore one of the Eastern Cape’s hidden gems: the Baviaanskloof, a recently designated World Heritage Site, with its rugged scenic and natural beauty.
In his easy and sympathetic manner and with consummate story-telling skill, Bart regales the reader with tales of people and events that over the centuries have helped shape and been shaped by the Kloof and its bordering mountains and rivers.
Bart and Caryl’s love for and appreciation of the complexities of this unique wilderness, now a World Heritage Site, shines from the pages.
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Guardian of the Crash
Guardian of the Crash is a remarkable and very personal journey between man and these magnificent beasts, both vulnerable to the circumstances of our time. It’s a story about the voiceless finding a platform to speak out and a growing confidence to be bold when the opportunity presents.
Dr William Fowlds – wildlife veterinarian & conservationistA heart-warming story of the relationship that developed between a group of threatened rhinos and an apparent drop-out, who found his feet while caring for these vast creatures.
Bart Logie – retired headmaster, writer, and nature-loverA story that excites so much inner human emotion and passion to want to contribute and aid in the efforts to protect the rhino species from extinction.
Mark Ralph, environmental ecologist, & Nicola Ralph, veterinary nurseThis story is a message of hope and redemption that inspired me to keep seeking purpose in life. I believe that Justin is one of God’s gifts placed into the world of the rhinos to be a guardian of creation and a voice for the voiceless.
Ilonka Esterhuyse – post-editor of the documentary, ‘Guardian of the Crash’ -
Okavango Memoirs
Mauled by a lion, charged by buffaloes, frightening encounters with crocodiles, bitten by snakes, alone in a deep, dark cave
with a wounded leopard, victim of bubonic plague…
These are just some of the experiences of stock farmer-turned-Tsetse Fly Control (T. F. C.) Officer and Ranger, E Cronje Wilmot, in the Okavango Delta in north-western Botswana, then the Bechuanaland Protectorate, in the mid-1940s.
These experiences were documented in Wilmot’s 1956 best-seller “Always Lightly Tread”, which has now been re-released as “Okavango Memoirs”.
It was not all high adventure though. Mr Wilmot was a born naturalist and a keen observer of nature – his descriptions of the Okavango Swamps – its myriad inhabitants, both animal and botanical, its moods and seasons – give us a wonderful insight into this vast and mysterious wilderness area that is still valid today.
E Cronje Wilmot was the first of the “Okavango Wilmot Dynasty”. His son Bobby was a well-known crocodile hunter in the Okavango in the 1950s and 60s, before turning to photographic safaris. Cronje’s grandson Lloyd, hunter turned conservationist and professional safari guide, has delighted hundreds of visitors to the Okavango over a period of 46 years.
Mr. Wilmot casts a spell. Despite being badly mauled by a lion, contracting bubonic plague, experiencing many frightening encounters with crocodiles, buffaloes, and deadly reptiles, his love and respect for nature is clear. The numerous graphic descriptions of wildlife in the book will entertain all outdoors lovers.
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Sundays: Tales from a Winding River
Bartle Logie, together with his wife Caryl, in this the sixth book in his series of historical travelogues through the Eastern Cape region of South Africa, undertakes a fascinating and informative journey along the course of the Sundays River, from its sources in the mountains north of Graaff-Reinet to the sea.
Their journey takes them from the top of the Lootsberg to the town of Graaff-Reinet, across the vast and arid plains to Jansenville, over the Zuurberg mountains into Kirkwood and The Valley, famous for its citrus orchards and mighty elephants, to the sand dunes of Algoa Bay. -
Tales from an Unmapped Country
This latest offering from Bartle Logie, his eighth, follows, to a large extent, the pattern established in his previous books: meticulous research, both on the ground and from reference material, and an easy, personal, story-telling style.
But there is a difference with “Tales”. It is a book of two journeys: one through the Border area of the Eastern Cape and the eastern fringes of the Karoo, and the other a personal one through memories of the author’s eventful and fascinating youth.
Inspired by his friend Kain Sisusa, Bartle and his wife Caryl set out to spend a year visiting familiar places to see how, if at all, they had changed. And then, “trolling through our memories, we would take a parallel journey, returning to the unmapped country of yesteryear”.“I have an idea,” said Kain. “You must go and visit my old village. Because why? Because you are always travelling and talking to people. When you come back you will be able to tell me the truth, but not to hurt my heart. You will tell me and I will be pleased to hear, but I don’t want to go there again myself, it will make my heart too sore.”
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The Sea Shells of Jeffreys Bay
This highly technical little book provides a comprehensive listing of all the seashells found in Jeffreys Bay and its environs. More than 90 pages of full-colour plates showing the shells, as well as a complete listing of the scientific and local names of the shells, make this an invaluable source of reference for the shell enthusiast.
This edition is the second special reprint and update of the original book by Douw and Elise Steyn and was commissioned by the Humansdorp Museum Association, curators of the Jeffreys Bay Shell Museum. Third Edition Revisions by Tana Kruger and Philip Steenkamp in 2022. -
Travellers’ Tales
R109,00
Adventurer, historian and raconteur Bartle Logie explores the byways of the beautiful Eastern Cape in this his 11th Eastern/Western Cape travel book.
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Travels with 20/20 Vision
St Francis Bay author Bartle Logie’s long-awaited new book about the Garden Route (including Kouga) and the Langkloof!
Adventurer, historian and raconteur Bartle Logie’s normal research pattern involves intensive deskbound research, accompanied by meticulously following the route of the planned narrative in the trusty Isuzu. However, this was not to be for this his 10th book – those plans hit a major snag in 2020: the Coronavirus Pandemic.
As he puts it: “Making plans is all very well, but we were no sooner on our way than we were faced with the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown. This resulted in enforced ‘virtual’ travel while seated at home in a comfortable chair. Ultimately, in dribs and drabs, the journey was completed in reality, but unlike any other that we have undertaken.”
However, this has not in any way detracted from this eminently readable story of the history, people, flora and fauna of the Garden Route and the Langkloof – among South Africa’s most beautiful and fascinating regions – told in Bartle Logie’s easy, highly personal fireside style. -
“Firty-free Helephants, Oom!”
Mike Nunan has combined his skills as a keen observer, both of his natural surroundings and his fellow man, and as a fireside raconteur of note to produce this wonderful collection of reflections, stories (both humorous and tragic) and reminiscences of his life in the bush, both as a child and later as a Lodge manager and safari guide.
Mike Nunan, former maths teacher, bank manager, athletics administrator and Green Number Comrades runner (11 runs completed), has spent the past 20 years of his life managing game lodges throughout Southern Africa – as far afield as Tanzania and Botswana.
He grew up in the frontier bush environment of Northern Botswana, which instilled in him a deep love and respect for nature, wildlife and conservation.
He has combined his skills as a keen observer, both of his natural surroundings and his fellow man, and as a fireside raconteur of note to produce this wonderful collection of reflections, stories (both humorous and tragic) and reminiscences of his life in the bush, both as a child and later as a Lodge manager and safari guide.
He is obviously a deep thinker, and many of his stories reflect the philosophising that must have taken place at dawn, while sipping on his gallon mug of tea, on many a lodge and cottage veranda across the southern part of our continent.
As you read the book, you can picture Mike holding forth to guests from all over the world around the fire in the boma.
A worthy read, indeed!
