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ADVENTURING IN SOUTH AFRICA
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Africa
• Phyllis Martin
• Patrick O'Meara
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1995 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
African history and prehistory, popular culture, art and economics with dozens of maps, photographs and drawings. We especially liked the chapter on the contemporary map of Africa. It's all here. Pick and choose those areas that interest you. It's the most popular introductory text for undergraduate African studies courses in North America -- refreshingly free of cant and completely revised in 1995 to reflect changes in African politics.
(AFR07, $26.00) |
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Africa, A Biography of the Continent
• John Reader
HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 816 PAGES
With the ease of a practiced journalist, Reader weaves a masterful tale of the continent in this lively history of Africa, from ancient cultures to modern times. Both authoritative and informal, this is a splendid introduction to all of Africa.
(AFR49, $20.00) |
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African Wildlife
• James Kavanaugh
FIELD GUIDE •
1999 •
PLASTIC CARD
A laminated foldout guide illustrating almost 150 species of African animals. This pocket guide is designed for quick reference in the field.
(AFR109, $5.95) |
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
• Nadine Gordimer
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
Nobel Prize-winner Gordimer daringly explores racial identity, sexuality and loss in this remarkable collection with skill and heart. Highlights include a parrot who repeats lovers' quarrels and an anti-apartheid activist confrontating his family's dark past.
(SAF221, $14.00) |
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Big Five of Africa
• Gerald Hinde
NATURAL HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 143 PAGES
Hinde's stunning photographs celebrate Africa's lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and buffalos.
(AFR241, $20.00) |
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Bradt City Guide Johannesburg
• Lizzie Williams
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
A guide to the South African city in the authoritative, personal Bradt series. With practical information, annotated suggestions of where to eat, sleep and shop, suggested walking tours and color maps.
(SAF176, $13.95) |
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Cape Town Map
• Globetrotter
2005 •
MAP
A home-grown map of Cape Town, with a detailed city center on one side, and a local regional map, including the Cape Peninsula, on the other.
(SAF105, $8.95) |
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Conversations With Myself
• Nelson Mandela
• Barack Obama
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2011 •
PAPER
• 454 PAGES
Mandela draws on letters, notebooks, taped interviews and an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom for this new account of a remarkable life.
(SAF313, $18.00) |
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Cultures of South Africa, A Celebration
• Peter Joyce
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2011 •
PAPER
• 140 PAGES
In Cultures of South Africa: A Celebration author Peter Joyce and photographer Roger de la Harpe celebrate this extraordinary diversity -- of tradition, custom, history and geography of the land.
(SAF264, $27.00) |
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Don't Look Behind You!
• Peter Allison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Subtitled A Safari Guide's Encounters With Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos, this sequel to Allison's Whatever You Do Don't Run, includes more harrowing, hilarious adventures throughout Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique.
(SAF252, $16.95) |
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Frommer's Cape Town Day by Day
• Lizzie Williams
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 182 PAGES
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food to hotels, neighborhoods and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center.
(SAF278, $12.99) |
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Frommer's South Africa
• Pippa De Bruyn
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
A practical guide to exploring South Africa written by a South African native. With information on attractions, accommodation, shopping and dining.
(SAF197, $23.99) |
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Game Ranger in Your Backpack, All-in-One Interpretative Guide to the Lowveld
• Megan Emmett
NATURAL HISTORY •
2012 •
PAPER
• 325 PAGES
A practical guide with information on the most commonly encountered animals and plants of South Africa's Lowveld. Includes color photos.
(SAF317, $37.95) |
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Getaway Guide Garden Route
• Brent Naude-Moseley
• Steve Moseley
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
Organized by region and replete with colorful maps and photographs, this take-along guide to South Africa's Garden Route gives information on trails, food, accommodations, history and sights.
(SAF286, $23.00) |
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The Healing Land, The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
• Rupert Isaacson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 278 PAGES
This dark contemporary tale of discovery works as an antidote to the nostalgia of Van der Post's classic Lost World of the Kalahari. Isaacson, a journalist and travel writer raised with tales of Southern Africa and the San, documents the poverty, social disruption and struggle of a people who have been displaced from their land. The tale revolves around Dawid Kruiper, a traditional Xhomani Bushmen leader and healer, who introduces the author to ancient notions of power, wisdom, healing and strength. Without losing site of his main goal of reporting on the predicament of the Bushmen across their original lands, Isaacson embarks on his own spiritual quest.
(SAF135, $13.00) |
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Hottentot Venus
• Barbara Chase-Riboud
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
From the bestselling author of Sally Hemings comes an extraordinary novel based on the true story of Sarah Baartman, a South African herdswoman exhibited as a "scientific curiosity" in the capitals of nineteenth-century Europe.
(SAF318, $13.95) |
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Insight Guide Cape Town
• Rachel Lawrence
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
This book guides travelers with maps and helpful advice as they explore popular neighborhoods, such as the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Bo Kaap and the Cape Peninsula. It includes a section on excursions, which covers the Cape Winelands and the famous Garden Route Shore, and also informs readers of Cape Town's history, art, food and drink, and its national passion for sport.
(SAF307, $19.99) |
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Knowledge in the Blood, Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past
• Jonathan D. Jansen
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2009 •
PAPER
• 337 PAGES
A firsthand account, from the first black Dean of a historically white university, of how white South African students learn and confront the Apartheid past, and how this knowledge transforms students and teacher alike.
(SAF304, $21.95) |
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Lonely Planet Cape Town
• Simon Richmond
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 236 PAGES
Geared for independent travelers, this savvy guide features color photographs and dozens of excellent maps.
(SAF27, $19.99) |
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Lonely Planet Southern Africa
• Alan Murphy
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 808 PAGES
This hefty practical guide to the nine nations of southern Africa, including Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique and Lesotho, is ideal for independent travelers on a multicountry tour.
(SAF121, $32.99) |
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The Mirror at Midnight, A South African Journey
• Adam Hochschild
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 308 PAGES
Hochschild provides a new epilogue for this paper edition of his 1990 report from South Africa, a riveting blend of journalism, travel and history.
(SAF190, $14.95) |
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Mother to Mother
• Sindiwe Magona
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
A powerful novel of sorrow and compassion based on the real-life murder of Amy Biehl, a Fulbright scholar organizing democratic elections who was killed by a mob in a black South African township.
(SAF301, $15.00) |
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife
• Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 988 PAGES
A compact introduction to the landforms, wild areas, mammals, birds, reptiles and insects of Africa, featuring contributions by experts and almost 600 color photographs. Most of the book is a field guide to commonly encountered birds, mammals and other creatures of the African continent.
(AFR25, $24.95) |
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A Photographic Guide to Sea Fishes of Southern Africa
• Elst, Rudy
• King,Dennis
FIELD GUIDE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
A shirt pocket guide for anglers and divers to 268 species, each with range map, photographs and description, of sharks, rays and bony fishes.
(SAF192, $13.00) |
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The Power of One
• Bryce Courtenay
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 518 PAGES
This riveting novel tells of the coming-of-age of a six-year-old English boy in South Africa during the darkest days of largely pro-Nazi South Africa. It's an inspirational story with a great sense of time and place, combining strong characters, stunning locales and serious social issues. Based on the author's own experiences as a child.
(SAF26, $15.00) |
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The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean
• Paddy Ryan
NATURAL HISTORY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 184 PAGES
An illustrated overview of coral reefs, coral-reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, this compact book is an excellent resource for anyone thinking of exploring the underwater world. Beginners will appreciate the chapters on learning to snorkel, reef etiquette, photography hints and first aid. With 200 color photographs.
(DIV18, $21.99) |
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South Africa
• Michael Poliza
NATURAL HISTORY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 236 PAGES
The intrepid Michael Poliza (Africa, Eyes Over Africa, AntARCTIC) here works his large-scale magic on the landscapes, people and wildlife of South Africa.
(SAF288, $39.95) |
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Southern African Birds, A Photographic Guide
• Ian Sinclair
FIELD GUIDE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
Lightweight and handy for the field, this pocket guide to the 265 most conspicuous birds south of the Zambezi River includes color photographs, brief descriptions and range maps. We also carry Birds of Namibia (NMB17, $15.95).
(SAF14, $15.95) |
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Southern African Wildflowers
• John Manning
• Colin Patterson-Jones
FIELD GUIDE •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 176 PAGES
This illustrated botanical odyssey, organized geographically, showcases interesting and unusual plants from the Zambezi River, south to the Cape and across to the desert of the west.
(SAF162, $39.95) |
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Southern African Wildlife, A Visitor's Guide
• Mike Unwin
FIELD GUIDE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 234 PAGES
A popular photographic guide to the mammals, birds, reptiles and habitats south of the Zambezi. With 300 color photographs and illuminating text.
(SAF131, $26.99) |
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Top 10 Cape Town and the Winelands
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 128 PAGES
A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions.
(SAF216, $14.00) |
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Trackers
• Deon Meyer
MYSTERY •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 488 PAGES
Lemmer's first rule is: "Don't get involved." A highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, he has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa, where the rural tranquility has helped to calm his explosive temper. But when a wealthy farmer asks for his help in smuggling a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe (where they are murdered for their horns), he has a hard time saying no. Before he knows it, Lemmer is on a small airplane, zipping across the border, an airsickness bag in his hand and a military-grade shotgun at his feet. Soon, he will regret the trip very much.
(SAF311, $24.00) |
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
• Robyn Scott
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2009 •
PAPER
• 464 PAGES
Haphazardly schooled by her free-spirited mother and left to roam the bush, Scott writes with warmth and candor of her unconventional upbringing in Botswana, including her Grandpa Ivor (personal pilot to the first president of Botswana), physician father's work, unfortunate pets, siblings and adventures.
(SAF203, $15.00) |
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