During the last week of August, the unstoppable team Toast, Lesley and Emily went to the Tankwa Karoo to share the book and make connections with local people in this remarkable place.
Lesley Beake is an award-winning writer and champion of children’s reading, directing the South African non-profit organisation Children’s Book Network. We met when I started my Masters fieldwork in Clanwilliam in 2011 and we have been good friends ever since.
Toast Coetzer is a journalist, photographer and writer that everyone we met on our travels seemed to know! Toast happens to live next door to Lesley. As a seasoned traveller and creative soul, he was an especially welcome member of the team.
I have been studying the archaeology of the Tankwa Karoo since beginning my PhD field research there in 2014. The impression left by this landscape and its people – past and present – was the motivation behind the book and will hopefully lead to future work – both archaeology and outreach – in the area.
In the red Mahidra Scorpio-N (kindly loaned to us by Mahindra South Africa), we took on the Tankwa…
TANKWA 