Wildlife & environment

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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Learn how the world works and the fragile diversity of life in water, on land and in the many communities of living creatures.

The Story Of Life & The Environment: An African Perspective by Jo van As, Johann du Preez, Leslie Brown and Nico Smit

To make the complex simple takes an exceptional scientist and to communicate well you need to know much more than you tell. This book is an example.

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People still really have a lot to learn about these majestic predators.

Demon Fish by Juliet Eilperin

In this book, Juliet Eilperin takes readers along on her travels through the hidden world of sharks, revealing that people still really have a lot to learn about these majestic predators.

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A magnificent book written in easily accessible language.

EARTH IN 100 GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERIES by Douglas Palmer

In this incredibly beautifully illustrated work Douglas Palmer has put together a 400-page compendium of everything you need to know to fly Spaceship Earth and, mercifully, in easily accessible language.

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This book is Sharon Pincott’s second and continues the story of her time with the presidential elephants of Zimbabwe.

Battle for the President’s Elephants by Sharon Pincott

This book is Sharon Pincott’s second and continues the story of her time with the presidential elephants of Zimbabwe and is entertaining, informative and brutally honest.

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This book is a cry from the heart to save one of the world’s most extraordinary creatures.

The Rhino Keepers by Clive and Anton Walker

The authors are among Africa’s most dedicated wildlife keepers and this book is a cry from the heart to save one of the world’s most extraordinary creatures.

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This is the fifth in Sappi’s popular tree-spotting series.

Sappi Tree Spotting: Highlands by Val Thomas and Rina Grant

Sappi’s guide to the trees of the Highveld, Drakensberg and Eastern Cape mountains aims to teach readers how to identify them in five simple steps, starting with distinguishing features and looking for the right trees in the right places.

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This is no coffee-table book, but a guide with the field spotter in mind.

Pooley’s Trees of Eastern South Africa by Richard Boon

This fantastic guide is an updated version of Elsa Pooley’s original 1993 book, Trees of Natal, Zululand and the Transkei, which was reprinted several times. This is no coffee-table book, but a guide with the field spotter in mind.

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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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The clean, open layout of this book illustrates the absolute vastness of this icy landscape.

Frozen Planet by Alastair Fothergill and Vanessa Berlowitz (R360, BBC Books)

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From the cover page, Frozen Planet draws the reader into the masterfully depicted story of life at the polar ice caps.

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Many animals which have settled under the African sun actually originate from overseas.

Alien & Invasive Animals – a South African Perspective by Mike Picker and Charles Griffiths (R220, Struik Nature)

When contemplating South Africa’s animal kingdom, you probably think of the Big Five first, but many animals which have settled under the African sun actually originate from overseas.

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