This guide offers spectacular and diverse diving in South Africa and Mozambique.

Dive with sharks, squid and sardines, exploring cold-water kelp forests, pristine tropical reefs and poignant shipwrecks. This guide features 180 of the best dives, with first-hand descriptions and site maps. Key dive information and contact details and a comprehensive marine species identification guide.

Book chapters include

• Cape Peninsula and False Bay
• Southern Cape Coast – Gansbaai & the Garden Route
• Port Elizabeth, Port Alfred & East London
• South Coast – Aliwal Shoal, Landers & Protea Banks
• Durban & North Coast
• Sodwana Bay
• Northern Maputaland – Mabibi & Kosi Bay
• Southern Mozambique
• The Manta Coast
• Vilanculos & the Bazaruto Archipelago
• Nampula – Nacala Bay, Baixo do Pinda, Memba Bay and Ilha de Mozambique
• Northern Mozambique – Pemba & the Quirmbas Archipelago
• Inland dive sites
• Marine species Identification Guide
• Contacts

This guide will give you the information you need to be a responsible diver. Learn to care for the marine environment as well diving culture and gear you would need. This book is a must-have for any diving enthusiast.

Join the world’s biggest bike race on its 40-year journey from the Argus Tour to the Cape Town Cycle Tour.

312 pages with over 1000 iconic images, astonishing facts, all the winners, personal memories and the in-depth tale of each of the 39 tours to date.

Each year, from 1978, is featured as a separate chapter with:

• Highlights & facts over the years
• Factoid boxes throughout
• A graphic (for each year) showing the finish line comparisons of record holders & finishing times
• Overall finishing statistics comparison graphs since 1978
• The date, the distance & main category winners listed for each year since 1978
• Location map of the route (showing changes since 1978)
• Key stats for each year
• Overview of sponsors
• Key rider personalities
• Winner’s photos
• Images reflecting riders & supporters since 1978
• Bike, clothing, gear & technology changes over the years
• Images of the medals, logos & awards
• Key celebrities, personalities & organisers over the years
• Race number graphics & badges
• Over 1000 photographs from the archives featuring:
• Spectators
• Personalities
• Historic moments
• Interviews with iconic personalities & their personal memories
• Historic newspaper clippings
• “The year that was” box with non-cycling events for each year

Discover the beauty of South Africa’s beaches with MapStudio's newly released Life's A Beach.

This guide explores 9,500kms of the best beaches in the world, from Alexander Bay along the coast to Sodwana, visiting hundreds of beaches and exploring a magnificent coastline. The author, Ann Gadd, has tramped up dunes, scrambled over rocky cliffs, swam as often as time would allow, hung off numerous piers and took over 6,000 photos. She sums up her experience as being aware that people are never as happy as on a beach, soaking up the sun, doing a radical off the lip or holding a rod.

The guide gives the reader activities to do on land as well as on water with great sundowner spots and unique experiences. Find the best swimming beaches and national parks with overview maps indicating sites and handy tips for the best meal, best-kept secrets, child-friendly activities, star-rated activities and blue flag beaches. If you want to do activities besides soaking up magnificent scenery, the guide explores hiking, walking, fishing, surfing, swimming, boat launches, bodyboarding, kayaking, kiteboarding, boardsailing, canoeing and SUP. This guide is a fantastic keepsake for locals as well as anyone who enjoys water sports, and is light-weight for tourists to take back home as their travel memento.

So, get off couch and explore the wealth of fantastic options along South Africa’s shores.

South Africa’s scenic mountain routes offer travellers easy passages into the rugged splendour of wild and remote areas where nature reigns supreme. Many still follow ancient animal migration routes; others are modern engineering masterpieces that challenge gravity.

South Africa’s Favourite Passes & Poorts provides a detailed guide to more than 80 of the best-loved ones and is packed with information to enrich readers’ driving experience, from fauna and flora to the personalities behind the passes.

Activities highlighted in each area include hiking trails, mountain-biking tracks and 4×4 routes. Each chapter ends with tips on where to eat and stay, from bush camps and self-catering cottages to luxury lodges and hospitable guesthouses.

Many passes can be done as drives or weekend trips en route to some of South Africa’s most popular holiday destinations; driving others is an adventure in itself. Full-colour maps assist in travel planning, and the routes and points of interest are well illustrated with colour photographs.

Marion Whitehead became a passionate pass chaser when she worked as a tour guide in the Garden Route and Little Karoo. An author and travel photojournalist now based in the Eastern Cape, she loves roaming the countryside, driven by a nagging curiosity to see what’s around the next bend.

My First South Africa Atlas is a detailed child-friendly atlas, suitable for ages 6-12 years and older.

This educational atlas is filled with 120 maps along with colour-coded content boxes covering information on the following:

• Natural landmarks
• Buildings/sites of significance
• Geography/geology
• Climate
• Vegetation
• Parks and wildlife (incl. World Heritage Sites)
• Science (incl. astronomy, agriculture etc.)
• Towns (names, origins etc.)

There is a graphic timeline across the bottom of each pages including full-colour photographs. The little assistant ‘Lily’ introduces the reader to ‘did you know’ facts about South Africa and neighbouring countries, helping to make learning fun! There is a great overview map, including South Africa’s national anthem, as well as the symbols for each province. Included in the back of the book are educational pages, ‘our planet and showing it on paper, the features of a map, the compass, and finding locations’.

This book is a must-have for any learner in South Africa, as well as a great educational tool to assist teachers and schools.

The fully updated 5th edition of the touring atlas covers Southern Africa and is designed for all road users - from the regular commercial traveller to the casual tourist.

The atlas consists of a main map section covering South Africa, where main touring areas are shown in larger scale and greater detail, as well as city maps, where the main city centres and significant surrounding areas are also shown in detail. Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe have a full spread for each country, together with the main tourist areas and city plans.

The atlas also includes a comprehensive index of place names and, where appropriate, an index of city plans. The touring sections show places of interest in specific locales, such as the battlefields of KwaZulu-Natal and the wineries of the Western Cape. Lastly, photographs of scenic areas accompany the maps where appropriate.

A newly updated edition of this single-sided folded sheet map of the Isle of Wight, giving everything you need for a holiday or day trip.

Whether you want to enjoy the extraordinary coastal walks or be regal at Osbourne House, the map features all the key camping and caravan sites, castles, craft centres, historic houses, marinas and slipways, museums, gardens, sports venues, theme parks, walking and cycling routes, and wildlife parks.

With wineries and ancient churches, amazing sailing and exceptional landscapes, the Isle of Wight has much to offer. Charles I was imprisoned on the island during the Civil War at Carisbrooke Castle and there are botanical gardens to wander at your leisure. The famous Needles are must-visit and welcoming seaside towns are clearly marked for easy navigation.

There are six clear town centre street maps: Cowes, Newport, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor to ensure you never get lost.

With a clear, user-friendly mapping style, this map provides all the information that visitors and locals need to find their way around the island.

Philip's latest super-clear road map of Spain and Portugal has been fully updated with the latest tourist, heritage and driving information. 'THE CLEAREST AND MOST DETAILED MAPS OF EUROPE' - David Williams MBE, former CEO Gem Motoring Assist The bestselling fold-out road map for navigating in Spain and Portugal has been updated for all travellers wanting to go places in the Iberian peninsula. Whether driving through the most spectacular scenic routes the countries have to offer or tracking your city-to-city travel, this handy map has all you need. - Super-clear scale 1:1,110,000 (17.5 miles to 1 inch) - Key driving information: motorways (toll, pre-pay and free), mountain passes, railways, road numbers (European and local), plus distances between towns - Fully revised and up-to-date with the latest tourist and leisure information - Scenic routes clearly highlighted - Places of interest added: from castles, historic houses, beaches and national parks to theme parks, places of worship and ancient monuments - Includes the islands of Majorca, Minorca and Ibiza - Double-sided maps - more for your money and easier to use - Detailed city plans: Alicante, Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid and Seville - Full index of place names - Major city location maps In fact, everything you need for your trip to Spain and Portugal.

From historic gabled manor houses to contemporary wineries, quirky family-run farms to iconic estates, country picnics to world-class fine dining restaurants, this 3rd edition of Wineries Of The Cape profiles 58 of the very best visitor experiences in the winelands.

All are within easy reach of Cape Town, and a top-notch wine selection is at the core of each of the wineries chosen for inclusion in the book.

High quality, specially created strip map of this unique 117 mile coastal path from the Kincardine Bridge to Newburgh on the Firth of Tay. This new edition contains maps of the whole route, at 1:40,000 and based on OS data. Compact and concise, the map is printed on waterproof paper and is supplied in a durable slipcase. For every copy of this map sold, a donation goes towards the practical management of the Fife Costal Path.

The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by colour photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that Cape Town has to offer. The fold-out map of Cape Town is ideal for tourists and visitors. The highly successful Globetrotter Travel Series, which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover version of the fold-out Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed plastic wallet.

Discover 100 must-do activities in Durban, with MapStudio’s newly released Visitor’s Guide to Durban. This “kif” guide will not only give you interesting facts and figures, but also important information like transport options and “dossing” (accommodation) options. Keep the laaities happy and tour the city visiting the beaches, surfbreaks, learn about fishing, the arts, theatre, dance and festivals, bookshops, movies, music, art galleries, museums and nightlife. Of course your visit would not be complete without savouring delicious Indian food and not trying a Durban “bunny”,, is like going to the UK and not eating fish ‘n chips. There are of course lovely restaurants, coffee shops, markets as well as food shops to suit the entire family. The guide also gives a great section on the parks and game reserves and local is lekker so shop around for locally produced goods and support cultural diversity, by supporting local artists, crafters and small businesses. This guide is a must-have for anyone wanting to visit Durban and the surrounding areas. So be kwaai bru, and discover the best of Durban!

What with the rising cost of travel, the scary exchange rate, the cost of visas, traffic congestion on the roads to the coast, the environmental cost of air travel and – generally – a lack of time, perhaps we should revisit the concept of holidays. Do we really have to travel halfway across the world or halfway across the country for a holiday to ‘count’? After all, what makes a holiday a holiday anyway? What makes it special? Two days of genuine relaxation within 100km of your home is worth more than a week in a glamorous resort if you’re stressing out about work, are in semi-constant contact with the office, or are trying to figure out how you are going to resuscitate your credit card when you get back. A holiday is a state of mind.

It’s a series of special moments that you will treasure forever. And that’s what’s so great about staycations. No long queuing and interviews for visas, no long queues at the airport, no long flights, and no long, thousand-yard-stare, endless drives through the Karoo. By choosing a staycation, you minimise the boring, long bits of holidays, and maximize the fun, interesting bits that make for treasured memories. And, hey, you save money, save fuel, and pile up carbon credits at the same time. What’s not to love? And you would be amazed at how much there is to do so close to the city – stunning hikes and country stays, big five safaris, awesome golf, amazing adventures, romantic retreats, and genuinely fun family-friendly resorts where your kids can act their age, and so can you.

So, check it out – you’ll find amazing golf staycations, adventure staycations, safari staycations and a range of fabulous one-tank-cations spreading out from the city like the petals of a daisy. North, south, east, west – close to home is best.

The A-Z Adventure Series of maps combines the best of OS and A-Z, creating the perfect companion for walkers, off-road cyclists, horse riders and anyone wishing to explore the great outdoors. Glyndwr's Way is a 135 mile (217 km) National Trail in mid-Wales from Knighton to Welshpool via Machynlleth. Linking locations connected with Owain Glyndwr, the trail passes through the tranquil Radnorshire Hills and across open moorland and rolling farmland with views over Cadair Idris and Lake Vyrnwy. The route on the map is clearly highlighted in yellow with mileage markers to gauge distances when planning sections of the walk to enjoy. This official National Trail Map* of Glyndwr's Way features 43 pages of continuous Ordnance Survey 1:25000 mapping providing complete coverage of Glyndwr's Way. The atlas includes a route planner showing distances between places and the amenities available, featuring: *Information Centres *Hotels/B&Bs *Youth Hostels *Campsites (seasonal opening) *Public Houses *Shops *Restaurants *Cafes (seasonal opening) *Petrol Stations Also featured is advice on safety and security when walking and a selection of QR codes linked to useful websites, including temporary route updates from the National Trails, regional information, map reading advice and weather reports. Unlike the original OS sheets, this A-Z Adventure Atlas includes a comprehensive index to towns, villages, hamlets and locations, natural features, nature reserves, car parks and youth hostels, making it easy to find the required location quickly. Each index entry has a page reference and a six figure National Grid Reference. With a book size of 240mm x 134mm it is the same size as the standard OS folded map. Other National Trails available within the A-Z Adventure series include: Cotswold Way, Hadrian's Wall Path, Norfolk Coast Path & Peddars Way, North Downs Way, Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Offa's Dyke Path, Pennine Way, South Downs Way, SW Coast Path, Thames Path, The Ridgeway and Yorkshire Wolds Way. *A-Z is the official mapping partner of the National Trails.

The perfect companion for those who love the great outdoors, the A-Z Adventure Series features OS 1:25000 scale mapping in a convenient book, complete with index. The South West Coast Path is a National Trail along the Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset coasts. This stunning walk from Minehead, Somerset covers 630 miles to South Haven Point in Poole Harbour, passing through two World Heritage Sites (the Jurassic Coast and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape), Exmoor National Park, Land's End and many areas of outstanding natural beauty. A series of five A-Z Adventure Atlases together cover the South West Coast Path: *SW Coast Path North Devon and Somerset *SW Coast Path North Cornwall *SW Coast Path South Cornwall *SW Coast Path South Devon *SW Coast Path Dorset This A-Z Adventure Atlas of the SW Coast Path North Cornwall features 41 pages of continuous OS mapping covering the route from the Devon/Cornwall border to Land's End. The trail is easy to follow, highlighted in yellow to stand out from other footpaths, with mileage markers to gauge distances when planning your own sections of the walk to enjoy. The book includes a route planner showing distances between places and indicates available amenities, including: *Information Centres *Visitor Centres *Hotels/B&Bs *Youth Hostels *Campsites (seasonal opening) *Public Houses *Shops *Restaurants *Cafes (seasonal opening) *Petrol stations Also featured is a selection of QR codes to access useful websites with your smartphone. Unlike original OS Explorer sheets, this A-Z Adventure Atlas includes a comprehensive index to towns, villages, hamlets and locations, natural features, nature reserves, car parks and youth hostels. Each index entry has a simple page reference and a six figure National Grid reference. OS 1:25000 is Ordnance Survey's most detailed leisure mapping, showing public rights of way, open access land, national parks, tourist information, car parks, public houses and camping and caravan sites. With a book size of 240mm x 134mm Adventure Atlases are the same size as a folded OS map, ideal for map pockets etc. Other National Trails available within the A-Z Adventure Series include: Coast to Coast, Cotswold Way, North Downs Way, Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Pennine Way, South Downs Way, The Ridgeway and Thames Pat

The West Highland Way waterproof map from Footprint is a map-guide to the 95 mile (153km) route between Milngavie and Fort William. The mapping is based on Ordnance Survey data at a scale of 1:40,000, with compact and concise information for walkers.

Our brand new and up to date whisky map shows over 150 distilleries on our exceptionally clear road mapping, allowing you to navigate to your chosen destination. Enlarged inset map of Speyside & clearly defined production regions allows you to plan your distilleries tour according to your taste buds! Distilleries are indexed with addresses and full contact details and clearly defined as those with and without visitor facilities. The best thing to go with your dram apart from a splash of water. Foreword by Blair Bowman, whisky consultant Over 150 whisky distilleries shown with & without visitor facilities Clearly defined whisky producing regions Exceptionally clear road mapping with mileage markers Index to distilleries with full address & contact details Fun facts & information on the reverse Index to place names

The A-Z Adventure series features the accuracy and quality of the 1:25000 OS mapping in a convenient book, complete with index. The A-Z Adventure series is an innovative concept that utilises Ordnance Survey 1:25000 mapping in a book, therefore eliminating the need to fold and re-fold a large sheet map to the desired area. OS 1:25000 is Ordnance Survey's most detailed mapping, showing public rights of way, open access land, national parks, tourist information, car parks, public houses and camping and caravan sites. Unlike the original OS sheets, this A-Z Adventure Atlas includes a comprehensive index to towns, villages, hamlets and locations, natural features, nature reserves, car parks and youth hostels, making it quick and easy to use. Each index entry has a page reference and a six figure National Grid Reference. At a book size of 240mm x 134mm it is the same size as the standard folded OS map. This A-Z Adventure Atlas of Exmoor covers the whole 267 square miles of Exmoor National Park. From high coastal heaths in the north to open moorland and wooded valleys to the south, this uniquely diverse landscape is just waiting to be explored. This A-Z Adventure Atlas of Exmoor features 64 pages of continuous Ordnance Survey mapping covering: *Coombe Martin *Dunster *Dulverton *Exmoor National Park *Lynton *Minehead *Porlock Also featured is advice about safety and security when walking or mountain biking and a selection of QR codes linked to useful websites. This A-Z Adventure Atlas has the accuracy and quality of OS 1:25000 mapping indexed within a book, making it the perfect companion for walkers, off-road cyclists, horse riders and anyone wishing to explore the great outdoors.