Recommended Reading

There is a great variety of reference books available that are very informative. These are some of our recommendations:

Fauna, Flora and General Reference

General Reference
A good introduction to South Africa is The Covenant by James Mitchener 
For a fascinating history of the early days of South Africa, shipwrecks and diamonds etc, you cannot beat the books by Lawrence Green. For example:

• I Heard the Old Men Say
• Tavern of the Seas
• Grow Lovely Growing Old
• South African Beachcomber
• Something Rich and Strange
• Eight Bells at Salamander

Similar in content, history and information are those by T.V. Bulpin :

• Storm Over the Transvaal
• Shaka's Country
• The Ivory Trail
• Lost trails of the Lowveld
• To the Shores of Natal

For fabulous empathy with Afrikaans stories and sheer story-telling ability, an anthology of the short stories by Charles Herman Bosman :

• Under the Withaak's Shade
• Mafeking Road

Pauline Smith is another notable short-story writer, for example The Pain.
For sheer ability to describe the feeling of how Africa gets your soul, Kuki Gallman's book  I Dreamed of Africa