This UK to South Africa Travel Adaptor enables you to use your electrical equipment in South Africa by converting your 3-pin UK plugs into a South African socket for instant use.

"My Family and Other Animals" is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.

An exhilarating and terrifying account of the historic first source-to-sea descent of the Congo. At 2,922 miles, the Congo is the eighth longest river and the deepest in the world, with a flow rate second only to the Amazon. Ex-Marine Phil Harwood embarked on an epic solo journey from the river's true source in the highlands of Zambia through war-torn Central Africa. With no outside help whatsoever he faced...

The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa. Written and illustrated by astrono...

The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2023. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa. Written and illustrated by astrono...

It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically hilarious dispatch from El Valero we find Chris, now a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner find work on a raucous road trip; cooking a TV lunch for visit...

In 1969 Peter Matthiessen set out with the expedition led by Peter Gimbel, whose aim was to find and film underwater for the first time the most dangerous of all sea creatures - the great white shark. Acting as the expedition's chronicler and spare hand (both on the surface and below), Matthiessen accompanied the crew from the Carribean to the whaling grounds off the Durban coast, to various islands in the ...

The "Community Tourism Guide" will lead you to a new type of holiday. Tribal people and rural villagers in Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America and the Pacific islands are setting up their own tours: tours from which they, and not the international hotel chains, derive some income. For the traveller, they offer uniquely exciting opportunities, far from the usual tourist ghettos, and they are bas...

Stay with indigenous tribes in the Amazon. Dog-sled with the Inuit in the Arctic. Walk the Songlines of central Australia with Aboriginal guides. Learn African drumming in Ghana or how to dance salsa in Cuba Bored with the same old package tours and identikit resorts. Then this book is your key to a whole new world of inspirational holidays. Throughout Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, tribal peop...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime.

Double-sided map of South Africa printed on waterproof and tear-resistant synthetic paper, with plans of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. The map divides the country east/west with a small overlap between the two sides. Elevation tinting in feet shows the general relief. Mountain passes are marked, but there are no spot heights.

In Tropic of Capricorn, Simon Reeve sets out on his greatest challenge yet - a unique journey to track the Tropic of Capricorn around the globe.

Street plan of Accra on a double-sided map from ITMB which also offers on the reverse a road map of southern Ghana and small street plans of Kumasi and Cape Coast. On one side is street plan showing Accra at 1:23,000 with coverage extending east to the Mallam district, north to the West Legon Botanical Gardens and the University of Ghana, and west beyond the international airport to the Light Industry Area....

Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans, on a tiny budget of hoarded student loans, Alastair Humphreys’ 46,000 mile ride took four years to complete.

Whether you want to follow the Great Migration in Kenya and Tanzania, explore Botswana's Okavango Delta, or experience Victoria Falls, the local Fodor's travel experts in Africa are here to help! Fodor's The Complete Guide to Africa Safaris guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. Thi...

The Rough Guide to Game Parks of South Africa Make the most of your time on Earth with the ultimate travel guides. World-renowned 'tell it like it is' travel guide, now with free eBook. Discover the Game Parks of South Africa with this comprehensive and entertaining travel guide, packed with practical information and honest recommendations by our independent experts. Whether you plan to take a jeep safari...

Tourist map with street plans

Travel Map South Africa is an indexed map at 1: 1.5million. It includes city plans of Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria, plus detailed maps of Cape Peninsula and Robben Island. Places of interest are listed and accompanied by a wide range of pictorial symbols for instant recognition. These symbols have been colour-coded by category.

Could you ski to the South Pole? That was the challenge that British Adventurer, Felicity Aston put to women from around the Commonwealth as she set out to create the most international all-female expedition ever to the South Pole. The team would not be experienced explorers but 'ordinary' women who wanted inspire others to follow their dreams or make a change for the better in their lives. She received mor...

The Cairo to Cape Town Route presented by ITMB in a handy-size A5 paperback atlas with extracts from the publishers’ mapping of the continent at 1:3,400,000, plus 50 additional pages of large city centre street plans of main cities and/or popular locations such as Victoria Falls. Coverage of the countries along the route is indicated on our coverage image.