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by Amy on Dec 7th, 2011
Jacana Media, Getaway magazine and Wordsworth are delighted to invite you to the launch of Best of Getaway Gallery, compiled by Cameron Ewart-Smith.
The launch will take place tonight, 7 December, at Wordsworth’s V&A Waterfront store.
See you there!
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by Amy on Nov 18th, 2011
The Best of Getaway Gallery is a celebration of the photographers who constantly brave hot and cold, rain and shine, early mornings and late nights to capture the unbelievable pictures that are submitted to Getaway magazine every month. It is their dedication to their art, and their determination to capture these fleeting moments of beauty, that has produced the fantastic images that appear in this showcase of the best wildlife and travel photography that South Africa has to offer.
If you ask any of the staff photographers who have worked at Getaway over the past 22 years they will all agree that judging Getaway Gallery is the highlight of the month. The seemingly simple task of choosing the most beautiful, or most intriguing, or most amazing of the submitted photographs is given some perspective when considering that more than 500 images are received every month, and that this collection is a showcase of the past seven years of Gallery winners. What started in 1989 as a simple idea – a space for readers to share their best images – has developed over the years to become the foremost African travel and wildlife photography competition in South Africa – if not the world.
The images collected together in the pages of The Best of Getaway Gallery represent the work of almost 100 photographers, and are a true reflection of the incredible talent we have in South Africa.
“One would normally say that a book of this quality is a page turner, but this one is not. The wonderful images make you linger…” – Roger de la Harpe
About the editor
Cameron Ewart-Smith, the current editor of Getaway magazine, has been a travel journalist and photographer since he can remember and has worked on and off for Getaway for the past 12 years.
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by Amy on Sep 8th, 2011
Andie Miller‘s book, Slow Motion, is a collection of stories written over a period of six years about walking the streets of South Africa. In a non-fiction piece in the latest issue of Itch magazine, Miller meets an elderly gentleman called Gordon Bruce, who enjoys walking the streets of Yeoville in Johannesburg.
Says Gordon, “I think that walking gives you a different experience of your environment…because if you’re car-borne the whole time you almost have a blind eye to certain social realities. If you walk you have decidedly closer contact with others, if only because you’re moving at a much slower rate than you would do in a car, and you absorb the atmosphere around you.”
Gordon Bruce was born in 1922 in Bath, in the west of England, about twelve miles from Bristol. In those days, as he puts it, ‘cars were never even thought of in my family’. His father was a schoolmaster, and he recalls the ‘picture in my mind of him walking home with the headmaster, walking side by side – I’ve never forgotten this, I don’t know why – and they were deep in serious conversation, and for the whole of their lives the idea of getting into a car, and doing this by car, would never have entered their minds.’
By the end of the Second World War, Gordon had joined an organisation called Federal Union ‘which was trying to create a world federal government, during and after the war. All this was very interesting, but suddenly I realised that world government wasn’t something you could just fish out of your hat, by working hard for it and all that sort of thing. There were certain obstacles in the way and one was of course racism, and one or two black people pointed out to me that I might see world government as a thing oriented on the Western, predominantly white, countries – America and the European countries.’ And this is what brought him to South Africa.
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by Amy on Aug 26th, 2011
On a recent “Best of Jenny” show, Jenny Crwys-Williams spoke to Alexandre and Sonia Poussin, authors of Africa Trek 2, about the 14 000 kilometre journey they took across Africa, travelling from Mount Kilimanjaro to the Sea of Galilee. It took the intrepid French couple three and a half years to make the journey and they met 1200-odd families along the way – their story is a record of the overall “friendship, generosity and hospitality” of the African people:
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by Amy on Aug 3rd, 2011
Join the intrepid couple Alexandre and Sonia Poussin for the launch of their travel tome, Africa Trek 2: In the Footsteps of Mankind From Mount Kilimanjaro to the Sea of Galilee at Cape Storm in Wynberg tonight, 3 August 2011.
See you there!
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- Date: Wednesday, 3 August 2011
- Time: 05:30 PM for 06:00 PM
- Venue: Cape Storm,
45 Lester Road, Wynberg
Cape Town | Map
- RSVP: 021 421 1301
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by Amy on Jul 25th, 2011
Jacana Media and Exclusive Books are pleased to invite you to the launches of Africa Trek 2: In the Footsteps of Mankind by Alexandre and Sonia Poussin. The couple will be at Melrose Arch Piazza in Johannesburg on the 27th of July, and at Midlands Mall in Pietermaritzbug on the 30th of July. They conclude their nationwide book tour at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town on the 2nd of August.
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by Amy on Jul 25th, 2011
According to Alexandre Poussin, a pair of hiking boots lasts approximately 2000km, and he would know, since he and his wife Sonia have hiked over 14 000km from Cape Town to Jerusalem, following in the footsteps of mankind. At the launch of their second book, Africa Trek 2, the gregarious couple recounted their unusual African honeymoon that lasted for three years.
At an intimate gathering at Love Books in Melville, the couple spoke about the magic of walking and how it had broken down barriers and allowed them to experience first hand the diversity of people who live on the African continent. “Our plan was to follow in the footsteps of the first hominids, but our principle was to share each night as guests of Africans,” said Alexandre.
Alexandre recalled that he received a lot of flak for taking his fragile ‘blonde’ wife on the trek, but he said she was definitely not fragile and, smiling, Sonia broke into the conversation and adding that their marriage proved to be a valuable status as “marriage is something that African society values.”
Before embarking upon their phenomenal journey, the couple made a decision to decline all offers of lifts. “We knew that if we took one lift, we would set a precedent, and we didn’t want that,” said Alexandre. Instead, the Poussin’s walked through dangerous terrain where lion attacks were frequent and trudged past dried rivers when their water had run out.
The couple also declined to undertake research before their trip. “We didn’t want our experience to be coloured by preconceptions; instead we relied on the advice of the people we came across on our travels. We felt their advice was more relevant and useful,” says Alexandre. “Africa comes across as a war-ravaged continent, but in our travels we didn’t encounter any signs of warring factions and the trip really challenged those perceptions that are promulgated in the media.”
The couple said that they found Africans resilient, that most Africans rely on themselves, their communities and their faith. Throughout their trip the couple journalled, meditated and were mindful about remembering the special people who made their travels possible. “Our African trek made us realise that the impossible is possible.”
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by Amy on Jul 22nd, 2011
The Origins Centre is hosting a screening of the film Africa Trek: The Movie, a documentary of the three-year epic journey of Alexandre and Sonia Poussin, who toured 11 African countries by foot. The film is based on the couple’s successful book, Africa Trek 2. Tickest for the screening cost R50 and booking is essential.
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- Date: Sunday, 24 July 2011
- Time: 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM
- Venue: The Origins Centre, Wits University
Corner of Yale Road and Enoch Sontonga Avenue,
Braamfontein,
Johannesburg | Map
- Cost: R50
- RSVP: 011 717 4700
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by Amy on Jul 14th, 2011
Jacana and Love Books invite you to the launch of Africa Trek 2: From Mount Kilimanjaro to the Sea of Galilee by the charming French couple Sonia and Alexandre Poussin.
Join us at Love Books on Saturday, 23 July 2011 at 12:00 PM.
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- Date: Saturday, 23 July 2011
- Time: 12:00 PM
- Venue: Love Books,
The Bamboo Centre
53 Rustenburg road
Melville
Johannesburg
- RSVP: info@lovebooks.co.za, 011 726 7408
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by Amy on Jul 6th, 2011
Introducing the second instalment in Alexandre and Sonia Poussin’s Africa adventure, Africa Trek 2: In the Footsteps of Mankind from Mount Kilimanjaro to the Sea of Galilee:
Three years, eleven countries, 1,200 families, 14,000 kilometers of adventures while walking in the footsteps of mankind through the Cradle of Life.
The charming French couple Alexandre and Sonia Poussin are back with the second instalment of their incredible and groundbreaking journey through Africa.
With the first seven thousand kilometres under their belt, Alexandre and Sonia continue their trek to walk the length of Africa entirely on foot. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Sea of Galilee, along the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, their goal was to symbolically retrace the passage of early Man, from Australopithecus to Modern Man. Starting where volume I leaves off, this volume entrances readers with new, unexpected events both heart-warming and horrifying.
About the authors
Alexandre Poussin is a travel-writer, journalist and TV presenter. He graduated in Political Sciences and mastered in Geopolitics.
Sonia Poussin graduated in Social Studies at the Sorbonne, and mastered in Educational Practices of Developing Countries.
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