Travelling Rough and Travelling Tough
             a unique brace of travel books by Hendrik Erasmus
​A to I (Book One) and J to Z (Book Two)

The romance and other realities!

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Hendrik was born in South  Africa, but at a young age realised he urgently needed to travel. This is his account, alphabetically split between the twin volumes, of visiting, roughing it in and encountering strange people with diverse cultures, in very varied places. Many of these places have changed subsequently, in some cases radically.

The author greatly admires the travelogues of Theroux; indeed, his detailed and elegantly observed text are at best reminiscent of Thoreux's commentary. Often the seamier underside of a community is revealed, like when he worked compassionately as a taxi driver in Paarl, South Africa, during the apartheid period.