Reading a good book is like
taking a long exhale
Relax into one of our favorite African-centric books and armchair travel to fascinating destinations, many of which might just inspire your next trip. Whether you’re looking for a good laugh, for inspiring human stories and cultural insights, or you want to expand your wildlife knowledge, we’ve got you covered.
Reading a good book is like
taking a long exhale
Relax into one of our favorite African-centric books and armchair travel to fascinating destinations, many of which might just inspire your next trip. Whether you’re looking for a good laugh, for inspiring human stories and cultural insights, or you want to expand your wildlife knowledge, we’ve got you covered.
This month’s
Must read
The Elephants of Thula Thula
Françoise Malby-Anthony is the owner of a game reserve in South Africa with a remarkable family of elephants whose adventures have touched hearts around the world. The joys and challenges of a life dedicated to conservation are vividly described in The Elephants of Thula Thula, the author’s second book after An Elephant in My Kitchen. The author’s first book detailed her personal road to conservation and her efforts to keep Thula Thula flourishing following the death of her husband Lawrence. She returns now to bring us another very special slice of elephant wisdom and more of the fascinating life of this spectacular game reserve.
With honesty and humor this book tells the rags to riches story of a very determined young man. For the very first time, Siya Kolisi shares his story in an extraordinarily intimate memoir, charting his journey from being born into the impoverished Zwide township, to leading his proud nation to an astonishing victory at the Rugby World Cup in 2019.
Damon Galgut’s latest novel, The Promise, was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for 2021. The many voices of The Promise tell a story in four snapshots, each one centered on a family funeral. Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept...over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria.
An international bestseller, Cry of the Kalahari is the story of the Owens' life with lions, brown hyenas, jackals, giraffes, and the many other creatures they came to know. It is also a gripping account of how they survived the dangers of living in one of the last and largest pristine areas on Earth.
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a safari guide? Peter Allison takes us behind the scenes, one short story at a time.
Very few of our travelers go through Nairobi, Kenya without visiting the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Daphne’s book tells the story of how this well-known conservation project came to be.
An American couple moves to Rwanda to find greater meaning and purpose. Part human story, part history with stories of the genocide woven throughout.
A short, easy read to awaken your senses and reveal the magic that unfolds when you tune in to your surroundings. The author, Boyd Varty, was raised on a game reserve in South Africa.
Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by the South African comedian Trevor Noah, published in 2016.
My Early Years, Scatterling of Africa, tells the story of musician Johnny Clegg’s formative years,and how his passage to fame started. In this memoir he paints and shares the portrait of a deeply divided society in apartheid South Africa. With this chronicle, he shares how he felt drawn to and more at home among the Zulu tradition, the ‘other’ side, than his own familiar background.