South Africa Handbook: With Lesotho and Swaziland (Footprint South Africa Handbook) [Hardcover]

Rupert Linton (Author), Sebastian Ballard (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Series: Footprint South Africa Handbook | Publication Date: February 1998

This travel guide to South Africa includes coverage of Swaziland and Lesotho. Fully revised and updated, it contains listings for all budgets from back-packer hostels, guest farms and guest houses, to luxury safari camps. A colour section on wildlife with an animal location chart is included with comprehensive coverage of national parks (access, activities and accommodation). There is a special feature on how to plan a trip with suggested itineraries, including newly accessible areas. Detailed and indexed information is provided on hiking and hiking trails, and all aspects of the outdoor life.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Dear Fellow Traveller

Thank you for checking out the South Africa Handbook 2001. Footprint are an independent British publisher (based in Bath). We specialise in providing travellers with guidebooks that are second to none in terms of accuracy, recency and especially coverage. You will find that most of our guides are simply the most comprehensive available with in-depth information on history, culture and customs as well as practical travel information. Our major titles are updated ANNUALLY to ensure you have the best information to hand. If there are no reviews for this particular title we recommend you check out the reader reviews for the Peru and South American Handbooks which give a good flavour of how useful our guides are. You might like to know that we also publish East Africa and Namibia Handbooks and an extremely useful general guide to travelling: The Traveller's Handbook. Finally, whichever guidebook you choose, we would like to wish you an exciting, illuminating and above all enjoyable trip.

Best wishes
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About the Author

After living in Africa for eleven years Sebastian went on to take a degree in African and Asian Geography at the London School of Oriental and African Studies.

He has visited Africa 35 times and travelled in all the countries between Nairobi and Cape Town. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 864 pages
• Publisher: Passport Books; 2 edition (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844247863
• ISBN-13: 978-0844247861
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,404,980 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #52 in Books > Travel > Africa > Swaziland
  • #53 in Books > Travel > Africa > Lesotho

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best guide to South Africa, April 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: South Africa Handbook (Footprint South Africa Handbook) (Hardcover)

This is by far the best guide to South Africa. The information is very comprehensive, accurate and informative. The format is a sturdy hardback that's small enough to be easy to pop into your bag but won't get battered easily.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A five star travel companion: full of stories..., May 15, 2001

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stuandbat (Pretoria, South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Footprint South Africa Handbook 2001: The Travel Guide (Paperback)

we just came back from our south africa tour using the footprint handbook to zig zag more than 10 000 kilometres through the country. this book is a five star travel companion: very much up to date in sections like accommodation addresses, price categories, timetables - and the footprint kept us entertained as well. With little personality stories and well researched history background. the best thing for us: footprint calls it a handbook and not a guide book and that is what you need if you are self sufficient travellers like us in our vw kombi. look up the little sleepy karoo towns you are passing through on your way to major tourist destinations and even there you will find interesting details about the country. also well researched are the route descriptions if you are tending to go off the beaten track and for instance go off exploring some of the winding roads, that thomas baines designed more than 100 years ago along the garden route. if you use this book as a reference book while having your own ideas what to see and where to go, you won't get lost. instead you will get an idea what living in the rainbow nation is all about. one regret: a pity that the cool story about johnnie, the cave man, who explored big parts of the oudshoorn cango caves, got shortened in the new edition.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Footprint leaving all others behind..., April 27, 2001

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"womsa" (South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Footprint South Africa Handbook 2001: The Travel Guide (Paperback)

It is rare to find such a well written, comprehensive and detailed guide. The maps are excellent and cover more than just the essential. Information is as up to date as you can get it - this guide gets reprinted yearly. I also understand that from the time editing is finished it appears on the shelves within 3 months. The print is smallish and the paper is thin. However, the information is absolutely incredible - about 8 times more comprehensive than its nearest rival! From hiking trails to detail on less frequented places. This is deservedly the no. 1 selling book for South Africa - probably as timetables of trains, busses and Baz Bus is published and it makes trip planning really easy. It is also not written only for budget travellers - it is a book for everyone. Highly recommended.