This superbly presented, square-format book is (you can’t help it – you have to use the cliché) a brilliant visual feast.

Sean Fraser uses a well-practiced eye and obvious technical mastery to create a perfect coffee-table book (published by Struik Travel & Heritage) that showcases this country’s great beauty and amazing variety.

Of course it’s a mostly a polished view of South Africa – a look at nothing but the magnificence of the country and its most beautiful people – but that’s exactly what you want in a book like this.

It’s a bit short on text, but this isn’t a book you read: it’s made for staring, dreaming, and travelling. And it’s the ideal thing to stimulate anyone who pages through it to get out and explore our landscape, our wildlife, our history, and our culture – so you’ll want to display it in your reception, and you’ll want a copy or two for your quest lounge.

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