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Over the last 30 years, a fascinating variety of new place names have been given in South Africa. Falling into place provides detailed accounts of how towns, cities, suburbs, provinces, airports and even holiday resorts have been named – and, in some cases, renamed. Covering everything from names in the Kruger Park and the controversy over Pretoria/Tshwane to the natural features of Marion Island, the title is a useful reference and an entertaining companion to the … More >>

Falling Into Place: The Story of Modern South African Place Names

admin | Africa | 09 3rd, 2010 | No Comments »

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From 1973 to 1994, anthropologist Edwin Wilmsen lived and worked among the Zhu, Mbanduru, and Tswana people of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Thousands of miles from his home, immersed in what first seemed a radically different place, and operating in languages he initially did not understand, he began a record of his impressions and reflections as a complement to his scientific fieldwork. Journeys with Flies weaves together the multilayered experiences of … More >>

Journeys with Flies

admin | Africa | 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »

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The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength? Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of universal but le… More >>

Parisians in the Country The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department

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The semi-desert inland area of Route 62 (including the Winelands, Little Karoo and the Langkloof) and the coastal Overberg offer a mosaic of holiday possibilities. From a tourist’s point of view, Route 62 provides an alternative means of getting between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, taking the traveller through towns and scenery very different to that seen on the usual N2 coastal highway. The Overberg, on the other hand, is a compact region of small rural and coasta… More >>

Getaway Guide to Route 62 & The Overberg

admin | Africa | 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments »

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A field guide devoid of jargon, this expansive and educational tool documents the integration of vegetation regions and the distribution of woody plants in the highly diverse Cape region of South Africa. Developed for the general public, this extensively researched manual identifies the most striking features in trees and shrubs so that a complex system for keying the landscape is unnecessary. From the rocky and dry Richtersveld in the west to the Kalahari sands a… More >>

Sappi Tree Spotting Cape: From Coast to Kalahari

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Full-colour photographs illustrate this beautiful region. They portray the stunning beaches at Plettenberg Bay, Wilderness, Knysna and all along the coastline; the lushly vegetated indigenous forests between the Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma mountains and the sea; and, further inland, Oudtshoorn with its Cango Caves and ostrich farms in the arid Little Karoo…. More >>

Garden Route: Coastal Splendour

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In the summer of 1795 a 24-year-old Scot with an optimistic heart and an unforgettable name docked on the Gambia River. So began one of the most extraordinary journeys of exploration in West Africa. Tackling fever, starvation, wild beasts and curious natives, Mungo Park soldiered on to his prize, the mysterious Niger, finally proving that the great river flowed to the east. The young explorer returned home a hero, his journal an instant bestseller. Over 200 years af… More >>

The Road to Timbuktu

admin | Africa | 08 30th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

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A visual representation of one of Africa’s great wildernesses and most-visited national parks. Nigel Dennis’s photographs of Kruger and its many inhabitants are prefaced by a textual introduction to the conservation and natural history of the park. Michael Brett describes the diverse habitats of the Southern, Central, Northern and Far Northern regions of the park, and offers insight into the diversity of wildlife characteristic of each of them…. More >>

Kruger: Images of a Great African Park

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This practical guide highlights what Johannesburg has to offer the visitor. It describes the major tourist venues and their principal attractions, and offers suggestions on where to stay, what to see and do, where to eat and where to shop. Also recommended are popular entertainment venues, pick of the museums and art galleries, parks and gardens worth visiting, special interest tours, and selected excursions – for example, to Magaliesberg, Sun City, and its adjacen… More >>

Handy Guide Johannesburg

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This is Prorok’s tale of his archeological expedition into Abyssinia (now called Ethiopia) in 1933-34. Hardly the patient scientist, Prorok tells about raiding tombs, flirting with native women, outrunning murderous warlords, spying on magical cults, and getting hip-deep in political intrigue in one of the wildest places on Earth. This fellow is the real Indiana Jones…. More >>

Dead Men Do Tell Tales: A 1933 Archeological Expedition into Abyssinia

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