Whitaker has observed, is everywhere motivated by the same "country road" that "runs across a bare stage from nowhere to nowhere": The South African road through the
great Karroo, that "awesome Landscape of nothing" in which Fugard was born, became an insistent motif in his work as early as 1961 with The Blood Knot.
Located at latitude 33[degree sign] south at an altitude of 720 meters, the observatory sits on a farm 400 km east of Cape Town in the
Great Karroo, a dry, sparsely populated region.
IN 1925, Sauer, a Doberman trained by Detective Sergeant Herbert Kruger, tracked a stock thief 100 miles across the
Great Karroo, South Africa, by scent alone.