Romance of Cape Mountain Passes
- ISBN-10
- 0864866631
- ISBN-13
- 9780864866639
- Category
- Highway engineering
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-07
- Publisher
- New Africa Books
- Author
- Graham Ross
Description
There are more than 490 mountain passes in the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape, many of them more than a century old and the product of considerable engineering feats.
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