Filled with activities and interesting facts about Cape Town, this book covers the city’s six most popular destinations: Table Mountain, Boulders Beach, Cape Point, Robben Island, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and the V&A Waterfront.

With vibrant, full-colour illustrations throughout, this guidebook brings each destination to life with child-focused trivia and educational activities, such as puzzles, mazes, crosswords, secret codes and spot-the-difference. It also advises parents and children about what to pack and what to expect at each location.

Make the most of day trips in Cape Town with this fun, activity-packed companion

The Karoo is big sky country; a land of vast plains punctuated by flat-topped mountains, conical hills and secluded valleys, a land of scrubby bushes and hardy trees, where pioneers carved roads out of rock to set down roots in an unforgiving environment.

Here dreams are born, legends are made, and outcasts find sanctuary. It is also an ancient place, whose story is revealed through geology, fossils and artefacts, and whose human lineage predates any written history. Today, the people who inhabit it must manifest the same fortitude that sustained those who left their footprints in the primieval mud.

In Hidden Karoo you will find all this, and more. Through a series of superb photo-essays, this majestic place is revealed as a land where conservation and neglect are seldom far apart, where one town boasts splendidly restored buildings, while along a dusty road lie forgotten villages waiting for... something. Could it be a renewal, or a slow death? There’s nothing novel about the movement of people from country to city, and the Karoo mimics other parts of the world where rural areas become derelict as they are depopulated.

Hidden Karoo presents a snapshot of the region, offering a glimpse into towns and villages, farms and churches, public buildings and private homes, all against a backdrop of awe-inspiring landscapes. Through words and pictures, it prompts us to consider what was, what is and, perhaps, what might be. One constant about the Karoo is change. A book can do no more than capture a moment in time or depict fragments of a place, but in doing so, it bears witness to the past and offers the hope that there may yet be a future for this unparalleled part of our country.

Based on OS data and fully revised for 2017 the new Dumfries & Galloway Street Atlas is your essential guide to the towns and villages throughout Dumfries & Galloway. Exceptionally clear mapping and full index to street names. Don't leave home without it! Featuring: Exceptionally clear street mapping Index to street names Tourist attractions highlighted Shows schools, post offices, parking, petrol stations, hospitals, religious buildings, recreation areas, cemeteries and more.

Ondanks sy juweel van 'n Afrikaanse naam verkeer Fanie van der Merwe reeds vir twee dekades in selfopgelegde ballingskap. Danksy sy nering as geskiedenisonderwyser aan internasionale skole kry hy klokslag geleentheid om internasionaal te reis, wat hy met oorgawe doen. In die proses het hy reeds meer as vyftig lande besoek. In 2017 skep Fanie sy "Fanie Os Oppie Jas"-blad op Facebook - 'n hoekie in die kuberruim waar hy dagboek van sy reise hou, en vandag volg meer as 11,000 intekenare sy avonture. Met "Die reisstories van 'n nomadiese geskiedenisonderwyser" neem Fanie die leser op 'n warrelwindreis na ses lande wat nie gereeld op die gemiddelde reisiger se radar verskyn nie - Noord-Korea, Mianmar, Kambodja, Tibet, Belgie, en die uithoeke van die VSA. Danksy 'n kombinasie van pittige anekdotes in die suiwerste Afrikaans, asemrowende foto's en lighartige, dog boeiende geskiedenisverwante vertelllings, beloof die boek om 'n reisbundel te wees soos wat nog selde in Afrikaans gesien is. Die geskiedkundige feite sal verbluf, die foto's sal betower, maar dis Fanie se unieke, tong-in-die-kies-waarnemings wat selfs die mees huisvaste Jan Tuisblyer sal laat jeuk vir 'n internasionale reis.

Cape May began as Cape May Island, where families journeyed to enjoy wide white beaches and gentle surf during the early nineteenth century. With the advent of steamships and railroads, the quiet village soon became America's first seaside resort town. Despite its charm and elegance, visitors slowed in the 1880s, as a series of mysterious fires claimed some of its most beloved structures. As the twentieth century dawned, Cape May's failure to modernize ultimately became its salvation. By the 1960s, visitors were once again flocking to this seaside destination to enjoy its quaint Victorian charm. Experience the elegant Chalfonte Hotel, stately Congress Hall and the classic Cape May Boardwalk with local historian Emil Salvini.