220 Days and Counting...: There Is Always a Reason to Go Back
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A delayed return. A country waiting on the other side of the ocean. A journey measured not in kilometres, but in the accumulated weight of absence.
In 220 Days and Counting... There Is Always a Reason to Go Back, Oloi Shorua returns to South Africa after months away and discovers, once again, that the country never truly allows itself to become memory. From the first sight of the highveld beyond Johannesburg to the predator-rich valleys of the Eastern Cape, from mist-covered mornings in the Sabi Sand to the long roads of the Garden Route, this is a journey through landscapes that reveal themselves slowly and through the people who remain inseparable from them.
Lions call in the dark beyond campfires. Rhino emerge from the bush at impossible proximity. Elephant move through Addo dust with the authority of animals that have nowhere to be except exactly where they are. Along the way are old friends, lodge owners, guides, bartenders, conservationists and hosts whose lives are tied to the places they protect and inhabit.
But this is not simply a safari book.
It is a memoir of return - of revisiting landscapes over decades and discovering that familiarity deepens wonder rather than diminishing it. Through mountain passes, coastal towns, forests, reserves and long afternoons that refuse to end on schedule, South Africa becomes not a destination but a continuing relationship.
Written in a restrained, deeply observational voice shaped by thirty years of travel through East and Southern Africa, 220 Days and Counting... There Is Always a Reason to Go Back is literary travel writing about wilderness, memory, friendship, hospitality and the enduring pull of a road that is never entirely finished.
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