Adventure

Getaway offers an excellent range of travel guides, maps and travel journalism books at competitive prices. Passes & Poorts, 21 Years of African Travel Writing, the Getaway Guide to the Garden Route, Natural Selections as well as many other guides and travel books are all available for purchase online.

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Whether you’re a dreamer or seriously contemplating your own escape this book is for you.

Thinking up a Hurricane by Martinique Stilwell

Beware those of you with serious wanderlust – you’ll find yourself looking longingly at sailing magazines after reading Thinking up a Hurricane.

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Dana Snyman of his reflective journey through South Africa.

The long way home by Dana Snyman

Dana Snyman’s incredible knack for telling stories and observing the world as it is doesn’t just create an honest book filled with sad truths, but one that also gives the reader a positive outlook on South Africa.

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Searching Africa, is a hefty collection that charts David Robbins' progress through 22 countries in sub-Saharan, East, Central and Northwest Africa.

Searching Africa: Classic African travel from Windhoek to Tangier 
by David Robbins


Award-winning South African writer
 David Robbins has been producing 
investigative journalism, fiction and 
travel writing for 30 years. This novel speaks to Robbins’ wonderfully polished style and measured, clear-eyed approach that the material is as readable and insightful as ever.

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Inspiration to other adventurers to find their own path and explore this remarkable region of South Africa.

Circling the Great Karoo by Nicholas Yell

Nicholas Yell's story about going off the beaten track alone on a small motorbike is inspiration to other adventurers to find their own path and explore this remarkable region of South Africa.

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

Cape Vertical by Jeremy Samson (R160)

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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 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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A nicely written, first-hand account that is greater than the sum of its nail-biting and heart-warming parts.

Facing the Frozen Ocean by Bear Grylls (Pan Macmillan, R105)

Facing the Frozen Ocean is Grylls’s account of his team’s harrowing 2003 crossing of the treacherous North Atlantic in an open rigid inflatable boat.

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Table Mountain Classics

Table Mountain Classics: A guide to walks, scrambles and moderate rock climbs by Tony Lourens

The latest edition of Table Mountain Classics has been improved and extended to include 45 new routes, making it one of the must-have guides to walking and scrambling on Table Mountain.

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Overland Guide

Overlanders’ Handbook by Chris Scott

Whether you’re one of the lucky few able to just hit the road indefinitely or a couch traveller, the bulky hardcover Overlanders’ Handbook: worldwide route and planning guide is a dream maker.

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Blue Ice: Travels in Antarctica

Blue Ice: Travels in Antarctica by Don Pinnock

Don Pinnock tells of the fulfilment of his lifelong dream: a personal journey to the planet’s antipodes, Antarctica.

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