The Eastern Cape is a country of great natural beauty and tourist potential, and has produced a wealth of writers and writings that have responded to the landscape in a variety of interesting and enjoyable ways. One thinks here of Athol Fugard and Port Elizabeth, Olive Schreiner and Cradock, Thomas Pringle and the Baviaans River valley, and the praise poets of the Transkei. Drawing on material from both imaginative and personal writing, this guide presents more than 80 writers and close to 100 sites - from the 18th century to the present - arranged by region, so that one can travel, by car or in the mind, across the Eastern Cape and discover its beauties through the eyes of local writers and poets.