By John Edwin Mason Have you had the luck and been in central Cape Town on January 2nd – any year? It’s madness. Roads throughout the city are closed, the pavement’s packed excited crowds, their blankets, camping chairs and cooling boxes surround them. Getting anywhere fast is a schlep – but no one seems to [...]

Photographer Claudio Velasquez Rojas Foreword by George Branch I think this book is awesome. Anyone who has enjoyed the dramatic beauty of South Africa’s many faceted coastline will appreciate the stunning photographs and tremendous depth of scientific and environmental information that you’ll find in ‘Shoreline’ Shoreline – Discovering South Africa’s Coast evolved out of the [...]

  Derryn Campbell’s new book is funny and inspiring, and could be tourism’s best sales tool ever. I’d love to go to a country that was presented like this. The book is richly illustrated, filled with fast facts and word pictures, and its big, and square (24×24 cm), and solid (224 pages) – and it [...]