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Travel Guides
Botswana: The Bradt Travel Guide
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
- by Chris McIntyre (Author)
Botswana's Okavango Delta is a wetland paradise and top destination in
Africa for wildlife enthusiasts. The Bradt guide offers thorough coverage of
this unique ecosystem and its multitude of bird and plant life.
Lonely Planet Botswana (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by by Paul Greenway, Deanna
Swaney
This guide is devoted to this safe and increasingly popular African
destination. An in-depth wildlife section gets face-to-face with Botswana's
outstanding fauna and an illustrated section covers Botswana's crafts.
Botswana (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Mike Main
Botswana (Serial) (amazon.com) - USA
by Peter Comley, Salome Meyer,
useful supplement to the Lonely Planet, Rough Guide etc.
Botswana in Pictures (Visual Geography Series)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Thomas O'Toole, Department Of
Geogr Lerner Publications
Black-and-white and color photographs and
providing quick, easy access to facts.
Adventuring in Southern Africa : Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia,
Namibia, South Africa, Malawi, Lesotho, and Swaziland (1st Edition)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
- by Allen Bechky
well
researched book and in-depth book that reviews all the parks, animals, flora,
and areas of Southern Africa containing all the "need to know" information.
Lonely Planet Zimbabwe, Botswana & Namibia
(3rd Ed) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Deanna Swaney
Lonely Planet Zimbabwe Botswana and Namibia Travel Atlas
(Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit) (amazon.com) - USA
by Deanna Swaney
Travel Guide Botswana (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Alan Brough
Pocket sized
guide to Botswana, colourful layout with clear maps and photo's. All the prime
tourism areas are covered with good but easy to read statistics and area
information.
Okavango: A Journey
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by AAdrian Bailey (Photographer),
Robyn Keene-Young (Author)
This engagingly produced photojourney includes
some 100 exquisite full-color photographs with informative captions and text
that covers the diverse habitats of the Okavango Delta.
Zimbabwe and Botswana : The Rough Guide (3rd
Ed) (amazon.com) - USA
by Barbara McCrea, Tony Pinchuck
Maps &
Atlases
Botswana Travel Map (Maps
Worldwide)
2006: published by International Travel Maps
Includes
inset map of Central Gaborone at 1:12,500, plus extensive text on Botswana
wildlife and history.
Botswana Road Map (Maps Worldwide)
Published by: Map Studio
Folded Map,
Scale 1:250 000
Botswana
EaziMap (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Map Studio - Series
Eazimaps
Botswana Globettotter Travel Map
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by: New Holland Publishers
(UK) Ltd
user-friendly travel map has been specifically designed for
visitors as a practical and informative guide to Botswana. More than just a
map, it includes detailed street plans of the major towns and large-scale
projections of popular tourist destinations. Includes Regional climate charts,
full colur photographs and concise place name index. Details include Chobe
National Park, Francistown, Gaborone. Kutse Game Reserve, Mabuasehube,
Makgadikgadi and Nxai Pan National Park, Maun, Moremi Wildlife Reserve,
Okavango Delta and Route to Tuli.
Botswana
Globetrotter Travel Pack (Maps Worldwide)
Published by: New Holland Publishers
(UK) Ltd
offers exceptional value for money by combining Guide and Map in a
convenient and durable plastic wallet. Each pack comprises the relevant Travel
Guide and a full-size Travel Map. The handy Travel Guides are crammed with
useful information, travel tips and recommendations for the traveller.
Favouring essential and practical travel data over extended essays, their
clearly presented, easy-to-carry format is both attractive and practical.
Wildlife & Flora
Bird Atlas of Botswana (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Huw Penry
Hunting With the Moon : The Lions of Savuti
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Dereck Joubert, Beverly Joubert
(Photographer)
Two Emmy Award-winning naturalists and cinematographers who
have lived among the lions of Botswana for thirteen years present a book of
astonishing photographs and text about the wild cats' nocturnal world,
capturing their ferocious nighttime kills
Running Wild : Dispelling the Myths of the African Wild
Dog (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by John McNutt, Helene Heldring
(Photographer), Dave Hamman, Lesley P. Boggs, Leslie P. Boggs (Contributor)
"The narration, divided into six chapters on topics like predation or
play, follows a number of packs of dogs the authors studied for several years
in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana. Intimate details of pack life are
revealed in the stunning photographs, which illustrate the authors' discussions
of pup rearing, the mechanics of the hunt, and the relationships among pack
members." (From Booklist , March 15, 1997)
Wild
About the Okavango Chobe and East Caprivi (amazon.com) - USA
by Duncan Butchart
All-In-One
Guide to Common Animals and Plants of the Okavango Delta,
Wild Africa, vol. 2: Okavango Chobe Makgadikgadi
CD ROM (amazon.com) - USA
by Jerry Borrell (Editor)
"the
video footage and the gorgeous photos are top-notch, and the travel information
is comprehensive". (Mac-Addict, 11/97)
Okavango
: Africa's Last Eden (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Frans Lanting, Christine
Eckstrom (Editor), Alexandra Arrowsmith (Editor)
History & Politics
An African Miracle (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Abdi Ismail Samatar
The
book examines the relationship between the dominant class in Botswana, its
leadership, and the state in understanding why Botswana succeeded where other
African states with more resources and talent failed. Available in hardback and
paperback
Botswana (Heritage Library of
African Peoples. Southern Africa) (amazon.com) - USA
by Maitseo Bolaane, Chudi Uwazurke,
Part Themba Mgadla
Dividing the Commons :
Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Pauline E. Peters
Botswana, 1939-1945 : An African Country at War
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Ashley Jackson
Country Review, Botswana 1999/2000 (amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
an
overview which provides key demographic and geographic information as well as
full color regional and country maps by Magellan Geographix. Government and
political information is provided in a format which enables the Reader to get
an overview of the organization of the various branches of the government, a
brief summary of current political conditions, and a list of current leaders,
including a biography of the head of government/state
People & Culture
The Harmless People (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
account of Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana , whose way of life had
remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of
anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic
grasp of character.
Beyond Inequalities. Women
in Botswana (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Kussum Datta, Elsie Alexander,
Banu Arzamund Khan
Other Books & Novels
Black Papyrus: A Year in the Life of an African Village
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Bret Galloway
"Black Papyrus"
gives the reader an intimate sense of African customs and languages, derived
from many overlapping cultures that interact every day. For those planning
travel to Africa, it is a snapshot of real life in locations that only a
fortunate few will have a chance to experience.
Fieldwork : A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari
(amazon.com) - USA
by Christopher Scholz, C. H. Scholz
This memoir of a three-month-long field expedition to northern Botswana
tracks the adventures of a group of American scientists trying to gather
critical data in some of the wildest and most inhospitable parts of Africa. The
goal of the Scholz expedition was to determine, by recording tiny natural
earthquakes, if a previously unknown arm of the East African Rift system had
propagated into the Kalahari from the north
Botswana (Enchantment of the World) (amazon.com) - USA
by Jason LaureDescribes the
geography, climate, history, economy, culture, and people of Botswana.
Mating (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Norman Rush
Set in the
African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story
collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of
intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic, tackles
the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and women really
want.
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