READING GUIDE NAMIBIA ere is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail- Horder book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to reading.longitudebooks.com/D9693. ESSENTIAL ALSO RECOMMENDED Item EXNMB03A. Buy these 4 items as a set for $92 The Africa Adventure Company including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free Safari Planning Map, East & Southern shipping on anything else you order. Africa Vincent Carruthers (Editor), Kenneth Newman 2014, MAP, PAGES, $11.95 (Illustrator) This large-scale, colorful map covers the top safari countries and important wildlife The Wildlife of Southern Africa reserves of East and Southern Africa. With 2008 PAPER 320 PAGES, $28.00 , , enlargements of key regions like Northern With 1,200 color illustrations by a range of Tanzania, Southern Kenya and Northern experts, this compact field guide includes Botswana to Victoria Falls, the map includes all the birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, information on planning your safari and insects, fish and plants that a traveler is likely to climate graphs. (Item SAF340) encounter in southern Africa. (Item SAF59) Sharri Whiting Richard Estes The Safari Companion Culture Smart! Namibia 2008, PAPER, PAGES, $9.95 1999 PAPER 459 PAGES, $30.00 , , A concise and practical guide to local customs, An invaluable encyclopedic guide to Africa’s etiquette and culture with a short overview of mammals by a noted scientist, this perennial the land and people along with practical travel bestseller includes black-and-white drawings, advice. (Item NMB22) an overview of each animal group and in- depth information. Written with the typical John Reader safari-goer in mind. (Item AFR06) Africa, a Biography of the Continent Chris McIntyre 1999, PAPER, 816 PAGES, $20.00 With the ease of a practiced journalist, Reader Bradt Guide Namibia weaves a masterful and lively tale of the 2015 PAPER 544 PAGES, $27.99 , , continent, from ancient cultures to modern From the desolate Skeleton Coast to the lush times. Both authoritative and informal, this is Kavango and Caprivi Strip to the picturesque a splendid introduction to all of Africa. (Item capital of Windhoek, Bradt has it covered. AFR49) (Item NMB06) Thomas Pakenham Reise Know How Namibia Map The Scramble for Africa 1992, PAPER, 738 PAGES, $23.99 2015 MAP PAGES, $14.95 , , Absorbing and meticulously researched, this A folded, indexed road map of Namibia, in-depth history of the Victorian land grab in showing all major and many minor roads, cities 19th century Africa includes excellent portraits and towns, at a scale of 1:1,200,000. (Item of the egomaniacal personalities who overran SAF06) the continent. (Item AFR26) Peter Allison Amy Schoeman Don’t Look Behind You! Skeleton Coast 2009, PAPER, 256 PAGES, $16.95 2012, HARD COVER, 208 PAGES, $54.00 Subtitled A Safari Guide’s Encounters with This revised edition of Shoenman’s classic, Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and first published in 1971, shows the magnificent Lovesick Rhinos, this harrowing and hilarious landscapes, wildlife and nature of the Namib travel narrative makes you feel like you’re right desert, Skeleton Coast and northwest Namibia there on safari. (Item SAF252) in 160 color essays and accompanying essays on geology, climate, nature and history. (Item Rupert Isaacson NMB08) The Healing Land, The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert Rick Bass 2003, PAPER, 278 PAGES, $13.00 The Black Rhinos of Namibia A powerful account of the ancient traditions 2013, PAPER, 272 PAGES, $14.95 of the Kalahari Bushmen and the very Bass’ lifelong search for rare and iconic animals contemporary struggle of a people who have takes him into the harsh terrain of the Namib been displaced from their land. (Item SAF135) desert on the trail of the rare black rhino. Bass tells the story of the rhinos -- brought back Paul Theroux from near-extinction thanks to cutting edge The Last Train to Zona Verde, My conservation. (Item EXP98) Ultimate African Safari Caitlin O’Connell 2014, PAPER, 368 PAGES, $15.95 Paul Theroux’s challenging, thought-provoking The Elephant’s Secret Sense travelogue that chronicles his trek from 2008, PAPER, 240 PAGES, $15.00 the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa O’Connell chronicles the extraordinary social northward to Namibia and the ‘Zona Verde’ in lives of elephants in Etosha National Park with Angola. (Item WAF172) this powerful account of a 14-year study. (Item NMB20) Fran Sandham Traversa, A Solo Walk Across Africa Jonathan Kingdon from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Ocean Mammals 2008, HARD COVER, 320 PAGES, $25.00 2004, PAPER, 272 PAGES, $28.95 Sandham writes with down-to-earth glee of the A compact edition of Kingdon’s gloriously personalities, hardships, pleasures and idiocy of illustrated Field Guide to African Mammals. a 3,000-mile trek (sometimes in the company The guide includes abbreviated information of a donkey or mule) through tough terrain. on identification, distribution, ecology and (Item AFR212) conservation status and 480 outstanding color illustrations and maps. (Item EAF128) Peter Orner The Second Coming of Mavala TO ORDER Shikongo 2007, PAPER, 311 PAGES, $14.99 Set in 1991 at a school in the middle of a Namibian desert, soon after independence from South Africa, Orner’s hypnotic debut 2838 Vicksburg Lane novel revolves around a young American Plymouth, MN 55447 teacher’s captivating and beautiful co-worker, [email protected] Mavala Shikongo. (Item NMB15) www.longitudebooks.com Peter Joyce Shipping charges via UPS or Priority Mail: $4.95 for first book, $1 per This Is Namibia additional book up to a maximum of $9.95. 2014, PAPER, 144 PAGES, $21.00 A useful primer to Namibia, this visual essay Book prices and availability subject to change. on the up-and-coming African country surveys Checks, Visa, MasterCard, AmEx and Discover accepted. its cultures, wildlife and diverse landscapes. (Item NMB24) Call (+1) 800 342 2164 or go to reading.longitudebooks.com/D9693 © 2015 Longitude Rev 4/16.