South African Passage
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South African Passage contains excerpts from the diaries of teenagers who have gone into the wilderness of South Africa with Ian Player and the trail leaders of the Wilderness Leadership School. Since 1958, Ian Player, the man responsible for saving the white rhino from extinction and brother of international golfer Gary Player, has been taking mixed groups of teenagers— 13 to 18-years old, black, white, Indian and Asian — on Outward Bound-type experiences into the South African bush.
The selections are profound, humorous, enlightening, wise and full of wonder at the world. The story is one of personal transition for these teenagers — as it is for the reader — as they look within and without, recognizing what Sir Laurens van der Post calls the “sacred atmosphere” and sense of home we all can find in the wilderness. Come and join these young people on a passage through the bushveld of southern Africa to a new understanding of the vitalness of wilderness to us all.
