So High the Road – Jose Burman

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So High the Road – Jose Burman

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This is a saga of the pioneers, told from a new angle—the mountain passes that strangled the early development of South Africa. Once again Jose Burman takes us on a personal tour of exploration, across high passes and low, new passes and old, passes whose very names have been forgotten—for, as always, he travels the road himself.

The story of our highways is traced from Van Riebeeck’s mud tracks to the wide tarred ribbon of the National Roads. You will share the trials and tribulations of the early pioneers, meet the men of vision and foresight who made progress possible; and know the hardships, the hopes and the triumphs of the giants who built the passes.

Like Jose Burman’s other works, So High the Road fills a gap in the story of South Africa. It is a story of real people, faced with gigantic difficulties, and of the way they overcame them. A book of interest alike to the discriminating tourist, the explorer of old trails, the historian, and those who merely enjoy reading a good travel book.

PART I : The Pass Builders
CHAPTER
I. The Early Roads
2. Charles Michell
John Montagu
Andrew Geddes Bain
Thomas Bain
3. The National Roads

PART 2: The Mountain Passes
The Old Passes 23
4- Hottentots Holland Kloof 25
5. The Crossing of Houw Hoek 31
6. Fransch Hoek Pass 37
7. Hels Hoogte Pass 43
8. Roodezand Pass 49
9. Bain’s Kloof 56
10. Du Toits Kloof 62
11. Kardouws Kloof 68
12. Piekeniers Kloof 73
13. Passes of the Langeberg Cogmans Kloof 78
Platte Kloof 82
Tradouw Pass 87
Garcia’s Pass 90
14. Attaqua Kloof 93
Robinson Pass 99
15. Outeniqua Pass 102
Montagu Pass 104
Cradock Kloof 109
Duivels Kop 113
16. Prince Alfred’s Pass
17. Bokkeveld Passes
Elands Kloof 124
Witzenberg Pass 127
Michell’s Pass 132
Gydo Pass 138
18. Hex River Pass 140
19. Passes of the Zwartberg Mountains
Meiring’s Poort 145
Seven Weeks Poort 147
Zwartberg Pass 149