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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $100, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSAF24)		  
My Traitor's Heart  •  Rian Malan
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2000 •  PAPER  • 425 PAGES • FAVORITE
The Afrikaner and journalist recounts his return to his homeland just before the collapse of Apartheid. Malan grapples with the black and white heart of South Africa, drawing on the 300-year history of his family in Africa, legends of the Zulu nation and some brutally honest reporting. Candid, beautifully written and impossible to put down. (SAF19, $15.00)		   My Traitor's Heart
The Safari Companion  •  Richard Estes
FIELD GUIDE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 459 PAGES • BEST SELLER
An invaluable encyclopedic guide to Africa's mammals by a noted scientist. Written with the typical safari-goer in mind, this perennial bestseller includes black-and-white drawings, an overview of each group and in-depth information. (AFR06, $30.00)		   The Safari Companion
Insight Guide South Africa  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES
South Africa is brought to life in hundreds of color photographs and vividly written essays by a team of experts. Panoramic in scope, the guide takes us from Johannesburg out into the veldt, providing genuine insight into the history, nature and modern politics of this complex land. (SAF21, $24.99)		   Insight Guide South Africa
The Wildlife of Southern Africa, A Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of the Region  •  Vincent Carruthers  •  Kenneth Newman
FIELD GUIDE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES • BEST SELLER
This handsome field guide includes the birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, fish and plants of Southern Africa, all in one compact volume. With 1,200 illustrations by a range of experts. (SAF59, $29.95)		   The Wildlife of Southern Africa, A Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of the Region
South Africa Travel Map  •  Globetrotter
2008 •  MAP • BEST SELLER
A clear, double-sided map of South Africa at a scale of 1:2,400,000. It features inset maps of Cape Town, Durban, the Garden Route, Johannesburg, Kruger National Park, KwaZulu-Natal Arrea and Pretoria on the reverse. With an index of place names, Two Sides. 28x39 inches. (SAF09, $8.95)		   South Africa Travel Map



Also Recommended

Cape Town and Region Map  •  National Geographic    •  This double-sided map includes Cape Town, Table Mountain National Park and other reserves south to Cape of Good Hope. (SAF161, $11.95)
 		  
Cape Winelands, A Touring Guide  •  Theresa Morrison  •  Lanz von Horsten   • GUIDEBOOK • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  An informative, visual tour of 40 favorite wineries, all close to Cape Town. With fold-out maps, color photographs and information on restaurants, picnic spots and lodging. (SAF128, $20.00)
 		  
Culture Smart! South Africa  •  David Holt-Biddle   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handy guide will help you navigate local customs, etiquette and culture. (SAF169, $9.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide South Africa  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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  •  David Lambkin   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Profusely illustrated and compact, this guide includes excellent information on history, nature and culture, with maps and color photography. (SAF224, $25.95)
 		  
Time Out Cape Town  •  Time Out   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Compact, informative and lively, this outstanding guide covers where to go and what to do in Cape Town and surroundings. (SAF164, $19.95)
 		  
A History of South Africa  •  Leonard Thompson   • HISTORY  •  A succinct history of South Africa, especially strong on early Africans and European colonization. (SAF101, $17.95)
 		  
Beyond the Miracle, Inside the New South Africa  •  Allister Sparks   • HISTORY  •  The South African journalist (Tomorrow is Another Country), continues the tale of the transformation of South Africa and its accomplishments, failures and challenges in the decade following the collapse of Apartheid. (SAF166, $20.00)
 		  
Cultures of South Africa, A Celebration  •  Peter Joyce   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Photographers Roger and Pat de la Harpe collaborated with Peter Joyce for this illustrated celebration of the custom, history, traditions and people of South Africa. (SAF264, $27.00)
 		  
Playing the Enemy, Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation  •  John Carlin   • HISTORY  •  Carlin vividly documents how Mandala used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to unite South Africa. (SAF240, $16.00)
 		  
The Fate of Africa  •  Martin Meredith   • HISTORY  •  Ambitious in scope, immensely readable -- and as big as a doorstop -- Martin Meredith's blockbuster country-by-country overview of the tumult in Africa since independence is now revised and updated to reflect recent events. (AFR154, $21.99)
 		  
The Making of Modern South Africa, Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy  •  Nigel Worden   • HISTORY  •  This well-researched, readable primer covers South African history from colonial conquest to the end of apartheid and beyond, with an updated chapter focusing on 1994 to 2007. Worden is a history professor at the University of Cape Town. (SAF222, $36.95)
 		  
The Scramble for Africa  •  Thomas Pakenham   • HISTORY  •  Absorbing and meticulously researched, this in-depth history of the Victorian land grab in Africa includes excellent portraits of the egomaniacal personalities who overran the continent. (AFR26, $23.99)
 		  
Tomorrow is Another Country, The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change  •  Allister Sparks   • HISTORY  •  Sparks explores the extraordinary developments that led to multiracial democracy in South Africa, an essential key to understanding South Africa today, (SAF31, $25.00)
 		  
Conversations With Myself  •  Nelson Mandela  •  Barack Obama   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
 		  
In Bushveld and Desert, A Game Ranger's Life  •  Christiaan Bakkes   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A collection of autobiographical stories based on Bakkes's adventures working for the WWF in the Kaokoveld, leading safaris, traveling through Africa and working as a game ranger in Kruger National Park, where he lost his left arm in a crocodile attack. (AFR266, $28.95)
 		  
Long Walk to Freedom  •  Nelson Mandela   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An unpretentious tale of an extraordinary life, Mandela's autobiography is essential reading for an understanding of South Africa. His grace and his love for his country shine throughout. (SAF15, $17.99)
 		  
The Mirror at Midnight, A South African Journey  •  Adam Hochschild   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
 		  
Blood Safari  •  Deon Meyer   • MYSTERY  •  In this suspenseful tale of murder, set in and around the game preserves of South Africa, bodyguard Martin Lemmer helps to uncover the truth in the murder of four poachers. (SAF255, $7.99)
 		  
Cry, The Beloved Country  •  Alan Paton   • LITERATURE  •  The deeply moving story of Reverend Kumalo's quest for justice. First published in 1948, it is a striking, poetic tribute to the power of the individual and a trenchant indictment of Apartheid. (SAF30, $15.00)
 		  
Disgrace  •  J.M. Coetzee   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 		  
Life & Times of Michael K  •  J.M. Coetzee   • LITERATURE  •  Coetzee sets this short, hallucinatory novel, the powerful tale of a troubled boy, in South Africa in the midst of civil war. (SAF17, $14.00)
 		  
My Mother's Lovers  •  Christopher Hope   • LITERATURE  •  Set mostly in South Africa, from the 1800s to the present, Hope dramatizes the European encounter in 20th-century Africa with this outsized tale of Kathleen Healey -- aviator, big game hunter, knitting devotee and all-around adventurer. "Kick off your shoes, pour yourself a stiff drink and take your hat off to the elder statesman of southern African words--he's done it again," says Alexandra Fuller. (SAF239, $15.00)
 		  
Rage  •  Wilbur A. Smith   • LITERATURE  •  Smith mixes romance, politics and history in this page-turner set in Apartheid-era South Africa. (SAF225, $8.99)
 		  
South Africa, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Isabel Balseiro  •  Tobias Hecht   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This diverse collection of short stories reveals South Africa through the eyes of its writers, including numerous renowned names such as Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Alan Paton. (SAF236, $14.95)
 		  
The Conservationist  •  Nadine Gordimer   • LITERATURE  •  Gordimer's subtle Booker-prize winning novel portrays a wealthy South African industrialist who makes moves to preserve his way of life, his power, and his possessions in the face of massive injustice. (SAF218, $16.00)
 		  
The Power of One  •  Bryce Courtenay   • LITERATURE  •  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, based on the author's childhood. (SAF26, $15.00)
 		  
Trackers  •  Deon Meyer   • MYSTERY  •  Meyer mixes much about the people, land and local issues into this latest thriller, bringing the story of a mission to save a pair of black rhinos in Zimbabwe (starring the taciturn Afrikaner bodyguard Lemmer, last seen in Blood Safari), shenanigans at a high level intelligence agency and other seemingly unrelated crimes to a dramatic and surprising conclusion. (SAF311, $24.00)
 		  
Africa's Big Five  •  Gerald Hinde   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Bestseller. Gerald Hinde teamed up with colleagues William Taylor and Richard du Toit for this portrait of the lion, elephant, leopard, rhino and buffalo, featuring hundreds of color photographs by the accomplished trio. (AFR178, $39.95)
 		  
Game Ranger in Your Backpack, All-in-One Interpretative Guide to the Lowveld  •  Megan Emmett   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A practical guide with information on the most commonly encountered animals and plants of South Africa's Lowveld. Includes color photos. (SAF317, $37.95)
 		  
South Africa  •  Michael Poliza   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
South Africa Safari Companion  •  Alain Pons   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  From Cape Town and Fynbos, Kruger National Park and private reserves, this slim photographic survey introduces the parks, wildlife and habitats of South Africa. (SAF189, $14.95)
 		  
Birds of Southern Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklists  •  Ber Van Perlo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An admirably compact guide, featuring small illustrations of 1,250 species, brief descriptions and black-and-white range maps. (SAF79, $29.95)
 		  
Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals  •  Jonathan Kingdon   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An artist and biologist, Kingdon provides both delightful full-color illustrations and informative text. (EAF128, $24.95)
 		  
Newman's Birds of Southern Africa  •  Kenneth Newman   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This commemorative tenth edition celebrates the contribution of the late author, Kenneth Newman, fully revised and updated by his daughter, Vanessa Newman, to reflect the latest research, taxonomy and common names. (SAF29, $26.00)
 		  
Southern African Wildflowers  •  John Manning  •  Colin Patterson-Jones   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This illustrated botanical odyssey, organized geographically, showcases interesting and unusual plants from the Zambezi, south to the Cape and across to the desert of the west. (SAF162, $39.95)
 		  
Wildlife of South Africa, A Photographic Guide  •  Duncan Butchart   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy photographic guide to the mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs and common trees and shrubs. (SAF269, $23.95)
 		  
 
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