Guide to South Africa, 3rd (Bradt Travel Guide South Africa) [Paperback]

Philip Briggs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1998 | Series: Bradt Travel Guide South Africa

With an engaging style and a selective approach, this guide shows the way through South Africa's almost bewildering array of attractions -- from Kruger National Park, which protects more species than any other reserve on the continent, to the Drakensberg mountain range, which offers unlimited opportunities for climbing and hiking, to the resort towns and unspoiled isolated beaches of the country's vast coastline. This thorough update reflects the widespread political changes that have occurred in the last three years and includes several new itineraries.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The Bradt Guide to South Africa was the first to be published after the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, and this edition reflects the widespread changes that have occurred in the last two years while retaining its emphasis on game reserves and wilderness areas. Renowned Africa expert Philip Briggs's guide is selective in its approach, with the author in the role of informed and personal companion. Suggested itineraries guide the visitor through the country's almost bewildering array of attractions, and realistic advice on areas to avoid is included. The author's engaging style and selective approach, plus emphasis on wildlife and nature are the hallmarks of this guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; 3rd edition (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1898323526
• ISBN-13: 978-1898323525
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,005,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

African travel specialist Philip Briggs has been exploring the highways, byways and backwaters of the world's most challenging and exciting continent since 1986, when he spent several months backpacking on a shoestring from Nairobi to Cape Town. In 1991, he wrote the Bradt Guide to South Africa, the first such guidebook to be published internationally after the release of Nelson Mandela.

Over the rest of the 1990s, Philip wrote a series of pioneering Bradt Guides to destinations that were then - and in some cases still are - otherwise practically uncharted by the travel publishing industry. These included the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana and Rwanda (co-authored with Janice Booth), all of which are now in their 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th edition.

Philip has visited more than two dozen African countries, and written about most of them, whether it be for guidebook publishers such as AA, APA-Insight, Berlitz, Camerapix, Dorling Kindersley, Frommers, Struik-New Holland and 30 Degrees South, or for specialist travel and wildlife magazines including Africa Birds & Birding, Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa and Wanderlust.

He still spends at least four months on the road every year, and spends his rest of the time battering away at a keyboard in the sleepy dorp of Bergville, in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg region of South Africa. He is married to the travel photographer Ariadne Van Zandbergen and lives with three dogs and a cat. When not obssessing over some or other aspect of African history, culture, wildlife or travel, Philip's interests include music, reading and walking.