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Placenames: Places, Images and Information.Travelling around Southern Africa, discovering great places to visit and finding out about their history. Toponomy (the names of places), is a good way to start learning about any places that we visit. Taking pictures of people and their places follows naturally on from that interest.
Mills and milling in Southern Africa Follow my BLOG on this link Great Places in Southern Africa (and elsewhere) Click on the MILL WHEEL for more Click on the RED DOOR for more Click on the SANDSTONE CAVE for more Images of Lesotho, South Africa
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great variety of place names in Names can have all sorts of origins. Often they are given by the discoverer or
founder of a place: e.g.: - Fouriesburg takes it
Placenames - what are we doing?Collecting information about place names in Southern Africa, travelling to places of interest, talking to people who live there.Opening the discussion on names and the history and the culture of place names. What do you know? What did your parents tell you? Do you have information or anecdotes to share about place names or local history? Throw in your bit, contribute. Tell us a story, criticise and advise the webmaster. Do you have placenames for Lesotho and Swaziland?
Contact InformationThe webmaster Paul Gosselin is sometimes at home where you can contact him by telephone. However, it is far better to send an e-mail to the address indicated below. Thank you. e-mail : webmaster@placenamesa.com Map of Southern AfricaClick on the map for a high res. file of this vintage map
For more Great Places, Placenames and Images of Lesotho, try these pages
NEW BOOK LAUNCH NOVEMBER 2009 - Basotho: people at work - a photographic essay on Lesotho Publishing now by Highveld Press, Johannesburg. ISBN No. 780620 453 899 Contact webmaster for more information and see many of the images from the book on the website below.
For the best part of a decade, businessman turned photographer René Paul Gosselin has been drawn to the remote mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Gradually, he has learnt that, rather than chasing people and scenes, he should wait quietly by the roadside, and his subjects will eventually arrive by themselves. This approach has resulted in a stunning set of photographs depicting the lives of a people who, while fundamentally at peace with themselves and their environment, are constantly at work: ploughing, reaping, threshing, winnowing, milling, weaving, and tending their livestock. They include images of a gathering of hundreds of Basotho horsemen in the remote central highlands, held under the auspices of their paramount chief, to discuss grazing rights and other vital land use issues the first ever taken of this spectacular annual event. René Paul Gosselin presents a marvellous portfolio of photographs which testify to the hard work and skill of the rural Basotho at surviving in a harsh landscape, where little is achieved without major effort. from a foreword by David Ambrose
René Paul Gosselins empathy with and love for Lesotho and its people are clearly reflected in these photographs.
from a foreword by Mike Feldman |
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