Penguin Random House South Africa: 694 books
by Mike Picker
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
This is the first comprehensive field guide to the insect fauna of South Africa, with detailed descriptions of over 1 200 of the most common, most economically and ecologically important, and most interesting and attractive insects in the region. The easy-to-read text is matched with superb photography....
The Man Who Founded the ANC
A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
In 1912, just over a year after returning from his studies at Columbia and Oxford, the thirty-year-old Pixley ka Isaka Seme succeeded where others had failed in forming a political organisation that represented all black South Africans. Seme also established a national newspaper, became one of the...
by David O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
The Extraordinary Book of South African Cricket is the perfect gift for any cricket fanatic. Following up on their tremendous success with The Penguin Book of South African Sports Trivia, Kevin McCallum and David O'Sullivan have trawled the South African cricket archives and put together a collection...
by Steve Woodhall
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Watching and ‘ticking’ butterflies is a rewarding hobby and one that is gaining popularity in South Africa. This handy pocket guide details more than 250 of the region’s 670 species, from the tiniest blues and coppers to enormous swallowtails and emperors. The most commonly encountered butterflies...
Alien and Invasive Animals
A South African Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
While alien plants have been well publicised, this is the first book to be published on alien animals of Africa. It describes the history of each invasion, and the ecological and economic impacts in South Africa; and it discusses the effect of introduced biocontrol agents (usually insects), which...
by Braam van Wyk
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Pocket Guide: Wild Flowers of South Africa covers some 260 flowers representing all of the region’s major vegetation types: Accounts are conveniently organised by flower colour. Key ID features are supplied for each flower, as well as interesting facts. A photograph and distribution map accompany...
My South African ABC
Discover South Africa from Aardvark to Zululand
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
A is for Aardvark B is for Bakkie C is for Cango Caves ... A lively book to learn your ABC but also a colourfully illustrated guide to South Africa, its celebrated places and well-known objects. Seasoned illustrator Sandy Lightley’s bright illustrations bring the country to life while fostering...
The Reef Guide
fishes, corals, nudibranchs & other vertebrates East & South Coasts of Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Reef Guide documents some 800 reef fishes and invertebrates found along the east and south coasts of southern Africa. Following on the success of Dennis King’s earlier two titles, this impressive new guide features 578 species of fish and includes sections on anemones, starfish, snails, crabs...
Geological Journeys
A traveller's guide to South Africa's rocks and landforms
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Geological Journeys: a traveller’s guide to South Africa’s rocks and landforms is an essential companion for car journeys. How often have we wondered about the jaunty tilt of a mountain ahead, the unusual patterns of a road cutting, the colour and texture of the roadside soil, or the purpose of...
Dealing in Death
Ellen Pakkies and a Community’s Struggle with Tik
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
NEW AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE MURDER THAT SHOOK SOUTH AFRICA! In September 2007, Ellen Pakkies, a working mother from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats, strangled her son to death. The judge in the subsequent trial sentenced her to community service for her crime. What drove Ellen to commit this horrific...
by Rudy van der Elst
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Anyone who spends time beside the sea knows there’s a wealth of ‘treasure’ to be found, be it natural or manufactured, living or washed up. Beachcombing in South Africa is a friendly guide to the seashore’s rich pickings. Short chapters such as Floaters and drifters, Sea-beans, Sponges, Eggs...
by Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
JAN – a Breath of French Air is a memoir and celebration of renowned eatery JAN, a South African restaurant in the south of France. The restaurant is a showcase of South Africa’s tradition of hospitality, transported from a farm in rural South Africa to the glamorous French Riviera. JAN is a proof...
by Jean-Pierre Rossouw
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Tasting the Cape is a guide to the world-renowned Cape winelands, a travelling companion and more. Filled with insights from one of South Africa's most influential food and wine critics, the book offers the wine lover a new and accessible approach to South African wines by grouping the featured estates...
Why Africa is Poor
And what Africans can do about it
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence? Why Africa is Poor demonstrates that Africa...