Author of: Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa, Time Trials & The Firstborn of God.
Rebecca :
In your Preface, you welcome your Readers home from wandering across deserts, oceans & plains, home to Southern Africa, where you live. Tell us about how you came to write a travel book about your favorite places, as well as offering meditations at the end of each chapter.
Gail :
One lazy Sunday afternoon in February last year, I was lying on the sofa waiting for the great Muse to fill me with some ideas, some sort of inspiration for a new book. I knew that I wanted to write something, but the question was what?
We had just got back from a hike in the Drakensburg Mountains, & I was filled with the joy & wonder of nature. My husband & I travel a lot. So, from the word Drakensburg evolved the word travel, from the word travel, the word book. But I decided I did not want to write a travel guide with a list of maps, hotels & restaurants. I wanted to give the reader something of the essence that I had felt in those beautiful mountains with the clean, clear air, the eagles wafting on the breeze & the absolute stillness & peace that I had experienced. & so it began. The 1% inspiration from the Muse & the 99% perspiration from me.
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