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Welcome to our selection of books. The books listed here are recommended reading for anyone visiting Southern Africa, who would like to know more about the areas they will be visiting, are great coffee table books, as well as those of you who are embarking on one of training courses. Feel free to have a browse, click on the graphic representing the book's cover for on the book title, a new window will subsequently pop up where you will have the option of ordering the book/s on-line through Kalahari.net's extensive nationwide network. Also keep your eyes open throughout our website where you will see various recommended books on their applicable pages. We will also be updating these pages when we find more informative books, so be sure to check back often.

Newman's Birds of Southern AfricaNewman's Birds of Southern Africa
Author: Kenneth Newman
Publisher: C.Struik, S.Africa
ISBN: 1868727351
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Description: A field guide to birds, this title illustrates and describes fully all the birds recorded from southern Africa, updated to incorporate information obtained since the previous edition relating to the birds of the region as well as those of the southern seas.

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Stars of the Southern Skies:  An Astronomy Field GuideStars of the Southern Skies:
An Astronomy Field Guide

Frogs and Frogging in Southern Africa
Author: Vincent Carruthers
Publisher: C.Struik,S.Africa
ISBN: 186872607X
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days

Detail: Southern Africa has almost 130 frog species that occur throughout the region. This book offers tips on when and how to find frogs and shows that frogging is about exploring wetlands, listening to the African night, and observing the natural world. An accompanying audio CD features 50 frog calls.

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Frogs and Frogging in Southern AfricaFrogs and Frogging in Southern Africa
Author: Vincent Carruthers
Publisher: C.Struik,S.Africa
ISBN: 186872607X
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: Southern Africa has almost 130 frog species that occur throughout the region. This book offers tips on when and how to find frogs and shows that frogging is about exploring wetlands, listening to the African night, and observing the natural world. An accompanying audio CD features 50 frog calls.

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Field Guide to Insects of South Africa

Field Guide to Insects of South Africa
Author: M PICKER
Publisher: Struik
ISBN: 1868727130
Pages: 440
Format: Trade paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days

 

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Trees of Southern AfricaTrees of Southern Africa
Author: Keith Coates Palgrave
Publisher: C.Struik,S.Africa
ISBN: 1868723895
Pages: 1000
Format: Hard cover
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: Fully updated and revised, this third edition features new, simplified keys based on leaf characteristics and incorporates updated names, reclassifications and new species. All known indigenous trees and many naturalized aliens ocurring south of the Zambezi-Cunene rivers are included.

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Field Guide to the Mammals of the Kruger National ParkField Guide to the Mammals of the Kruger National Park
Author: Heike Schutze
Publisher: Struik Publrs.,S.Africa
ISBN: 1868725944
Publishing Date: 2002
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: The Kruger National Park in Southern Africa boasts a huge variety of mammals, ranging from bush babies to elephants. This text describes all the mammalian species known to occur in the park.

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Game Ranch ManagementGame Ranch Management
Author: J Bothma
Publisher: Van Schalk
ISBN: 0627024718
Pages: 709
Format: Hard Cover
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: This book is one of the most important reference works on southern African wildlife.

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Frogs of Southern Africa

Frogs of Southern Africa
Author: Vincent Carruthers
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 1868725952
Pages: 56
Format: Unknown
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: This series of natural history field guides has been developed in the hope that young people and anyone with a budding ineterst in natural history will take up the challenge to learn the secrets of southern Africa's fascinating fauna and flora. These little guides are an invaluable resource for the beginner, providing information at a glance through superb photographs, maps, and easy-to-read text.

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ROBERTS BIRDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 6TH EDRobert's Birds of Southern Africa
Author: L Maclean
Publisher: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund
ISBN: 0620175834
Format: Hard cover
Delivery Time: Usually within 5 working days

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The Art of Tracking: The Origin of ScienceThe Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science
Author: Louis Liebenberg
Publisher: David Philip
ISBN: 0864862938
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days

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Signs of the Wild: Field Guide to the Spoor and Signs of the Mammals of Southern Africa
Author: Clive Walker
Publisher: C.Struik,S.Africa
ISBN: 1868258963
Pages: 213
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: This compact field guide to the identification of Southern African mammals based on their spoor, droppings and skulls has been accepted as the standard work on the subject.

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Photographic Guides: A Photographic Guide to Wild Flowers of South AfricaA Photographic Guide to Wild Flowers of South Africa
Author: Braam Van Wyk
Photographer: Colin paterson-Jones
Publisher: C.Struik,S.Africa
ISBN: 1868723909
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Description: The flowers are grouped according to floral colouring (sections are therefore colour coded), and concise information on the flowers is focused on identification in the field. The authoritative text, by a leading expert, also features interesting historical, medicinal and cultural facts about the flowers described. A distribution map of each flower is featured in conjunction with the textual entries and two pages of diagrams are further aids to easy identification of flowers by leaf and flower types and parts.

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Scorpions of Southern AfricaScorpions of Southern Africa
Author: Jonathan Leeming
Publisher: C.Struik,S.Africa
ISBN: 1868728048
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: "Scorpions of Southern Africa" is both a field guide to the identification of the more common and visible of Southern Africa's rich fauna of 130 scorpion species and a description of the physiology and ecology of scorpions.

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Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National ParkTrees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park
Author: Ernst Schmidt, Warren McCleland and Mervyn Lotter
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 191977730X
Publishing Date: 2002
Pages: 702
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 5 working days
Details: This is a complete guide to every tree and woody shrub indigenous to the province of Mpumalanga, as well as the whole of Kruger National Park.
Designed for use by beginner tree enthusiasts and seasoned botanists, this book is unique in that it illustrates many woody plants that have previously been considered too small for inclusion in other tree guides but which are, in reality, dwarf trees. More than 950 species of trees and shrubs are covered, each accompanied by one or more clear colour photographs, a line drawing of the leaf, and a distribution map that indicates where the plant occurs within Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park. This is the definitive tree guide for the Lowveld, the Escarpment and the eastern Highveld. You can’t afford to be without it!

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Creatures of Habit: Understanding African animal behaviourCreatures of Habit: Understanding African animal behaviour
Author: Richard du Toit and Peter Apps
Photographer: Richard du Toit
Publisher: C.Struik,S.Africa
ISBN: 1868724336
Publishing Date: 2003
Pages: 160
Format: Hard cover
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: Southern Africa has one of the richest and most accessible mammal faunas in the world. This book offers an illustrated guide to behavioural characteristics such as feeding, communication, social living, courtship and many more, and examines how and why animals do what they do.

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Field Guide Series: Butterflies of southern AfricaField Guide Series: Butterflies of southern Africa
Author: Ivor Migdoll
Publisher: Struik New Holland Publishing
ISBN: 1868256243
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Delivery Time: Usually within 10 working days
Details: Over 600 colour photographs, Distribution maps,
Informative text Did you know that there are more than 200 species of butterflies in the southern African region? This handy book tells you all you want to know about those beautiful, colourful creatures.

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