Getaway Book Reviews


Springbok Kitchen is as much about the players and their home lives as it is about the food.

Springbok Kitchen compiled by Duane Heath (R180, Struik Lifestyle)

Springbok Kitchen is as much about the players and their home lives as it is about the food. Regardless of whether you’re a rugby fan or not, you’ll find yourself returning to this crowd-pleaser again and again.

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A great read for anyone keen for a road trip to Mozambique.

Travel Guide to Maputo and Southern Mozambique by Bridget Hilton-Barber (R150) Penguin Books

A great read for anyone keen for a road trip to Mozambique, or wanting to escape to its turquoise waters and white sands in the comfort of their favourite armchair.

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David Lemon (Photo by Rob das Neves)

An interview with David Lemon

David Lemon has lived his life as an adventurer. In his forties he rowed the length of lake Kariba in a ten-foot dinghy and in his fifties cycled from Nairobi [...]

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Make the most of your visit to this beautiful region of the Cape.

Getaway Guide Eastern Cape

This authoritative and comprehensive guide contains up-to-date information that will help you to make the most of your visit to this beautiful region of the Cape.

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This book is both motivational and useful when it comes to leading a greener lifestyle.

The Green Line by Michelle and Riaan Garforth-Venter (Lapa Publishers, R245)

This book is both motivational and useful when it comes to leading a greener lifestyle. Interesting (sometimes shocking) facts make this not only a lifestyle guide, but a valuable source of environmental information too.

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This book is bound to bring a little zing into your life, and teach you to fake it in style.

Zhoozsh! Faking it by Jeremy and Jacqui Mansfield (Struik Lifestyle, R190)

The recipes are simple and unpretentious, often uniquely South African and always delicious.

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This book includes 40-odd classic and iconic rock-climbing routes.

Cape Vertical by Jeremy Samson (R160)

Jeremy Samson has drawn on almost a lifetime worth of rock climbing and base-jumping adventures and picked out 40-odd classic and iconic routes, chronicling each route with memorable narrative and plenty of humour.

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This coffee-table book takes you on a photographic journey around the city centre and tourist hotspots.

Cape Town: Up Close and Personal by Mia Feinstein (R295, Random House Struik)

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This coffee-table book takes you on a photographic journey around the city centre and tourist hotspots with several full-spread aerial photographs of the CBD and peninsula coastlines, the architecture of the city centre, and portraits of the at-once ordinary and colourful residents of Cape Town.

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This book will be equally useful to beginners as well as more experienced paddlers.

Surfski with the Pros… by Kevin Brunette (Self published, R299)

This is one of the best guides of its sort (in fact of any sort) that will be equally useful to beginners as well as more experienced paddlers.

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Review by Bruce Dennil for the CITIZEN, Citi Vibe.

Capturing the moment

What started out as a small added-value service for magazine readers has become the platform for some of the finest wildlife and landscape photography South Africa has to offer.

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