South Africa Pocket Atlas

£10.50

Pocket-size, spiral bound atlas of South Africa, with numerous street plans and a basic Xhosa phrasebook. The atlas uses the cartography of the publisher’s World Mapping Project, available from our website in a folded map format in its Rough Guides edition. The altitude colouring used in the atlas is bolder when compared with the map version, presenting a more vivid picture the country’s terrain. Selected peak heights and pass heights are marked, and salt lakes, seasonal rivers, hot springs, etc., are shown.
Road information includes dirt tracks, with intermediate driving distances indicated for main roads. Railways and local airfields are marked. Symbols highlight numerous places of interest, including UNESCO sites, museums, national parks, nature reserves, bird sanctuaries, botanical gardens, etc. Latitude and longitude grid is at 1° intervals. Map legend includes English.

The atlas also includes basic street plans highlighting accommodation facilities and places of interest in Bloemfontein, East London, Franschhoek, Hermanus, Knysna, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mossel Bay, Nelspruit, Oudtshoorn, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth, Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Upington, and Worcester. The atlas has an index of place names, and a tri-lingual phrasebook Xhosa to English and German.