Cape Town, The Mother City Kindle Edition

CAPE TOWN, THE MOTHER CITY a Photographic Guide by JULIAN BOUNDA photographic journey through South Africa’s founding city of Cape Town from National Geographic contributing photographer Julian Bound.Featuring the vast ranging landscapes of Table Mountain, the Atlantic coastline and the Cape of Good Hope, to the cityscape of Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, ‘Cape Town, The Mother City’ also presents an insight into the city’s history with documentary footage of District Six and the Langa Township.With a section on Cape Town’s famous wine lands, this photographic guide also offers an insight into the wildlife within the Cape Town region, where African Penguins feed within the secluded bays of Boulders Beach and lions roam the semi-desert areas of Cape Town’s surrounding landscape.A pictorial guide for those wishing to travel to Cape Town, or a souvenir for those who have already visited ‘The Mother City’ of South Africa.ABOUT THE AUTHORBorn in England, Julian Bound is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. With photographic work featured on the BBC news, his photographs have been published in National Geographic, New Scientist and in the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions.Living in Asia and South East Asia for over a decade, Julian travelled extensively throughout Tibet between the years of 2004 and 2014. Having lived in Dharamsala, India, Kathmandu, Nepal, and Tokyo, Japan, he studied meditation under the tuition of the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and with spiritual teachers of India’s Himalaya region.With portraiture work of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has photographed the Tibetan refugee camps of Nepal and India. His other projects include Kyoto and Tokyo’s geishas, the gypsies of Rajasthan, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia.Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015 he documented the disaster whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations.Julian is also the author of the novels ‘By Way of The Sea’, ‘The Geisha and The Monk’, ‘Of Futures Past’, ‘The Soul Within’ and ‘Subway of Light’. Read more