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Frommer's South Africa

Frommer's South Africa


by Pippa De Bruyn

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

A practical guide to exploring South Africa with information on attractions, accommodation, shopping and dining. (SAF197, $23.99)

Insight Guide Cape Town


by Rachel Lawrence

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

This lavishly illustrated Insight guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions. (SAF307, $19.99)

Eyewitness Guide South Africa

Eyewitness Guide South Africa


by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 408 PAGES

This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. (SAF138, $27.00)

National Geographic South Africa

National Geographic South Africa


by David Lambkin

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Profusely illustrated and compact, this guide includes excellent information on history, nature and culture, with maps and color photography. (SAF224, $25.95)

Tomorrow is Another Country, The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Tomorrow is Another Country, The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change


by Allister Sparks

  • HISTORY
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 254 PAGES

Sparks explores the extraordinary developments that led to multiracial democracy in South Africa, an essential key to understanding the country today, (SAF31, $25.00)

Scenes from Provincial Life: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime

Scenes from Provincial Life: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime


by J.M. Coetzee

  • LITERATURE
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 484 PAGES

The Nobel Prize-winning author's brilliant trilogy of fictionalized memoirs -- here in one volume -- offers a tender, often very funny, vision of a young writer's beginnings. (SAF149, $20.00)

Disgrace

Disgrace


by J.M. Coetzee

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

Set in Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape, Coetzee's searing novel explores the devastating realities of racial politics in post-apartheid South Africa. (SAF89, $15.00)

South Africa

South Africa


by Michael Poliza

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 236 PAGES

Poliza (Africa, Eyes Over Africa, AntARCTIC) reeled in several South African photographer friends for this vivid portrait of a nation, its people, cities and villages, landscapes and wildlife. (SAF288, $39.95)

Birds of Southern Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklists

Birds of Southern Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklists


by Ber Van Perlo

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

An admirably compact guide, featuring small illustrations of 1,250 species, brief descriptions and black-and-white range maps. (SAF79, $30.95)

Agaat

Agaat


by Marlene Van Niekerk

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 581 PAGES

Van Kiekerk's novel portrays the relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and Agaat, her black maid turned caretaker, in apartheid-era South Africa. (SAF303, $19.95)

 

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