Ariesfontein to Zuurfontein - a Pictorial Journey by Obie Oberholzer

Book Condition:  Very Good.
Published by Designed and produced by Graphicor (Pty) Ltd (1988). First Edition, first impression 1988.

Book protected by a protective Brodart book cover. Dust jacket in very good condition, has a 2cm tear on top edge near the top right corner and general scuff marks, and colouring from age. Binding tight and secure. Boards and corners are intact. Original laminated pictorial boards that have the same design as the dust jacket. Unpaginated. A near fine copy. End papers are a slate colour.

The car was still parked in the middle of the road, vaguely pointing towards Bitterfontein. Not far away a fat lizard was sunning himself and I was sure he was checking me out. Just the occasional doringdraad fence cut the loneliness ..!

South Africa has some 60 communities and railway sidings with names ending in fontein.
Most are remote, situated in the drier areas (and most of the actual springs have long since dried up). This collection of Obie Oberholzers photographs represents two major journeys to those places.

Transportation was a battered red Fiat with all seats but the drivers removed to make way for camera gear and basic living utensils. He covered 14 000 hot kilometres between fonteins in 1985 and 1986.

I love to travel and look to look at people and places and things. To journey somewhere, to watch big things get smaller, mingle, change hue and disappear. To look so far that it hurts . . . and smell Africa.

Theres freedom in not knowing quite where youre going I mean, whats another 100 kilometres if youre making your way towards Swartwitpensbokfonteinberg?

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