Photography

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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This book will allow you to take far more compelling images, whether you’re a professional or just starting out.

Insider’s guide: Top Wildlife Photography Spots in Botswana and Namibia by Shem Compion

Shem Compion’s Insider’s Guide is not only a book about wildlife photography. It’s a book about place and subject, and how best to capture them.

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A a fabulous book that will find a happy home with people who celebrate different photographic approaches to familiar subjects.

Water and Dust by Caroline Gibello

Those people who are familiar with Caroline Gibello will recognise her style and touch immediately in this work. Each spread is special and captures the African landscape and its wildlife with finesse.

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Origins – Song of Nooitgedacht is a coffee-table treasure.

Origins – Song of Nooitgedacht by Jennifer Gough-Cooper

A coffee-table treasure that seamlessly binds together photography as an art form and the ability of images to reveal the creation of a landscape.

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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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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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Review of the Best of Getaway Gallery by the Weekend Post.

A book of photos you will be proud to own

Review of Getaway Gallery by Ivor Markman for the Weekend Post in December 2011.

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The Best of Getaway Gallery is a must-have photographic book for any collector.

Best of Getaway Gallery book a must-have for collectors

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Best of Getaway Gallery reviewed by Sabata-Mpho Mokae for Diamond Fields Advertiser in January 2012.

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Best of Getaway Gallery

Best of Getaway Gallery

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The Best of Getaway Gallery is a coffee-table book which won’t collect dust.

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Halfaampieskraal Celebrates

Halfaampieskraal Celebrates by Maia du Plessis and Simon Scarbo

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This is the perfect gift for anyone who loves South Africa, our unique traditional dishes and our magnificent landscapes.

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Insider’s Guide: Top Wildlife Photography Spots in South Africa

Insider’s Guide: Top Wildlife Photography Spots in South Africa by Shem Compion

This book will help you prepare for your travels and should find a place on any enthusiastic wildlife photographer’s shelf.

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