Timeless Beauty 2024

Zimbabwe’s Timeless Beauty: The 2024 Collection

Cathy’s fourth annual collection of photographs and evocative stories from wild and beautiful places around Zimbabwe. From remote dry wildernesses to mountains and escarpments, cold clear rivers and ancient rock paintings. Come adventuring with Cathy, sit around the campfire at night, listen to the stories and watch for shooting stars as you look up at the Southern Cross. Join Cathy off the beaten track and find solace, serenity and comfort in Zimbabwe’s wild and beautiful places.

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Timeless Beauty 2023

Zimbabwe’s Timeless Beauty: The 2023 Collection

When solace and silence are needed. When wild and beautiful places soothe. When a new adventure is just the medicine.
After an intense period of loss and grief Cathy Buckle sought solace in the wild and beautiful places she loves. Sitting on a rock on the edge of a woodland she looked out at a valley of golden grass, the warm sun on her back, a breeze on her face, an eagle circling overhead, she knew the pain was healing.
With her girlfriends by her side she found that laughter was the tonic she needed and she went adventuring again, discovering more of Zimbabwe’s wild and beautiful places.
Join Cathy in finding peace in wild and beautiful places. 

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Zimbabwe's Timeless Beauty 2022

Zimbabwe’s Timeless Beauty: The 2022 Collection

If you long for the quiet beauty of wild places. If you love Zimbabwe and part of you still misses Africa. This book of photos and short stories from Cathy’s times in wild and beautiful Zimbabwe should soothe your soul. Sit with Cathy at the riverbank and watch the sun drop into the horizon, while elephants splash and flop in the water in front of you. Close your eyes, imagine the hot sun on your face and listen to the stories of Zimbabwe’s enduring beauty whispering in the wind. Let this little book tempt you to have your own wonderful adventures in Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwes Timeless Collection 2021 Collection

Zimbabwe’s Timeless Beauty: The 2021 Collection

If you have ever lived in Zimbabwe. If you still remember the blue of the sky. This little book of stunning photographs and evocative short stories will probably leave you yearning for those moments, when the beauty of the natural world overwhelms and restores you; like they do for Cathy Buckle. Kopjes and mountains, waterfalls and rivers, wild places and beautiful creatures, red and orange sunsets, pink and apricot sunrises. You can almost hear eagles screeching overhead or hippos grunting in the river at sunset. You will almost feel the warmth of the sun on your face as you look at the golden grass swaying in a warm breeze.
Walk with Cathy in Zimbabwe’s golden grass.

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Wild and Beautiful Zimbabwe

Imire. The Life and Times of Norman Travers

A lifetime of remarkable adventures in Zimbabwe.
A three legged leopard, a hippo and a lion in the garden.
A crocodile in the swimming pool.
Norman was a visionary conservationist who also hunted, fished and farmed. He lived a life full of adventure and built Imire into a significant wildlife park. Norman and Gilly’s family life included lions, elephants, leopards, hippo and ‘…a stream of naughty, smelly little animals…’  
Norman is a man of those times; often a glass of whisky, always a pipe and a twinkle in his eye as he remembers these wonderful stories.
A warm hearted tribute to a life of adventures and excitement in Zimbabwe.

Rundi: Walking with Elephants

Their mothers have been killed.
They have been in a noisy truck for hours.
They are not even weaned and they are very scared.
Slowly, gently and patiently Cathy and Simon coax the baby elephants to risk a taste of milky porridge. The male is more confident, the little female is much more wary. They have wounds which must be treated if they are to survive.
Will these little orphaned elephants, now known as Rundi and Muku, ever learn to trust humans? Will they survive in this new place and without their herd?
A book filled with love, laughter, and adventures of two baby elephants in their first years. This beautiful story is interspersed with  black and white photographs. Walk with Cathy and these two baby elephants as they start out in life. 


Life During Political Crises in Zimbabwe

Cathy’s personal story and the stories of life for other ordinary Zimbabweans.

  1. African Tears
    Home alone when they came to the gate, this is the story of the invasion of Cathy’s farm and the events that unfolded throughout Zimbabwe in 2000.
  2. Beyond Tears
    Widespread political violence, terror, torture, rape and murder, during the years 2000 – 2002 in Zimbabwe.
  3. Surviving Zimbabwe
    Anecdotes, memories, hints and tips on how to survive a country in crisis where nothing is guaranteed.
  4. Sleeping Like a Hare
    Encounters in the Diaspora. A journey to the unknown made from necessity not choice to save his family from the collapse of Zimbabwe.

Eyewitness History – Zimbabwe

The last 20 years of Robert Mugabe’s rule: eye witness accounts and media reports.

1. Can you Hear the Drums
Eye witness letters from Zimbabwe documenting the country’s journey into lawlessness and economic mayhem. 2000-2004 in Zimbabwe.

2. Millions, Billions, Trillions
Trillion dollar bank notes, super hyper inflation, no food to buy, a third of the population flee to survive. 2005-2009 in Zimbabwe.

3. When Winners are Losers
Refusing to give up power and with violence out of control the opposition are forced into a Unity Government. Electoral winners are forced to be the losers. 2009-2013 in Zimbabwe.

4. Finding our Voices
A coup forces the resignation of Robert Mugabe. People march in their thousands.For a brief moment there is hope. 2013-2017 in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe Orders

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In Zimbabwe my books are available from:
INNOV8 BOOKSHOP: Avondale, Arundel and Kamfinsa branches
FOLIO BOOKSHOP: Borrowdale Village Harare
THE BOOKLIST: 14 Hindhead Ave, Chisipite
THE ORANGE ELEPHANT: 12th Avenue, Bulawayo and 258 Adam Stander Drive, Victoria Falls

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