Everyone's Guide to Trailing & Mountaineering in Southern Africa, by Jaynee Levy (Used)

By (author): Jaynee Levy. Maps by: Peter Slingsby.

A big, practical guide to hiking, backpacking and mountaineering across southern Africa, illustrated throughout with Levy's own colour photographs. The first part covers the basics: the trail and hiking-way systems, how hard different routes are, and what to know about packs, clothing and emergencies before setting out. The second part describes the trails themselves, grouped by the kind of country they run through, from the fynbos of the Cape to semi-desert, bushveld and forest, each with a route map by the cartographer Peter Slingsby.

Levy went on to write the long-running Complete Guide to Walks and Trails in Southern Africa. This earlier book is also a document of its moment: the publisher's note advises hikers to check whether a given trail was open to them, a reminder of how South Africa's outdoors was still divided in the early 1980s.

Condition: Good.

Author: Jaynee Levy
Edition: First edition, 1982 (second impression, 1983)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Publisher: C. Struik, Cape Town