Tracks Across The Veld

Boon Boonzaaier’s Tracks Across the Veld is a captivating journey through the South African landscape — both physical and emotional. Self-published in 2008, this evocative volume blends travel writing, memoir, and natural observation to create a vivid portrait of life in the veld. Boonzaaier’s prose captures the raw beauty, stillness, and spirit of the land, inviting readers to share in his encounters with wildlife, rural communities, and the quiet rhythms of the bush.

More than a travelogue, Tracks Across the Veld reflects a deep personal connection to place. Each story or reflection resonates with authenticity, shaped by firsthand experience and a genuine love for the South African outdoors. The author’s sketches and anecdotes reveal both the timelessness and fragility of the veld, offering a reminder of the harmony between humans and nature that modern life often obscures.

Beautifully written and richly atmospheric, this independently published work appeals to readers who appreciate nature writing, South African heritage, and the enduring call of the open landscape. Tracks Across the Veld is both a celebration and a preservation of a vanishing way of seeing the world.

Tracks Across the Veld is a richly detailed photographic and historical journey through the railway lines of South Africa and its neighbouring regions. Written by renowned rail enthusiast and excursion organiser Boon Boonzaaier, this sought-after volume documents the routes, branch lines and hidden stretches of track that shaped transport, trade and travel across Southern Africa.

Featuring maps, rare photographs, historical notes and first-hand insights, the book captures both the heritage and romance of rail travel. From remote branch lines to iconic main routes, Boonzaaier offers an engaging narrative that blends geography, history and personal experience from years spent accompanying rail safari tours across the subcontinent.

This is an essential title for railway historians, collectors, photographers, model-rail enthusiasts, and anyone passionate about Southern African transport history. Now increasingly scarce, Tracks Across the Veld has become one of the most desirable modern works on the region’s railway heritage.