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EXCELLENT guide to Cape Town
I spent a month in Cape Town and this guide was always by my side. Excellent guide with wonderful endearing side bars on locals-it gives you a great sense of Cape Town and its local flavour. All the sections are dead on. I found the dining and shopping extremely helpful with its guide to what is uniquely Capetonian. This is by far the best guide to Cape Town out now. The writers and contributors for this guide should be commended. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Reference - Guides (General)    3. Travel    4. Travel - Foreign    5. Travel Guides    6. Republic of South Africa    7. Travel & holiday guides    8. Travel / Africa   

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Disorganized and a waste of money
SUMMARY OF MY REVIEW:Save your money and get free guides at the Cape Town tourism office instead!!!
Deals with the city well
This book deals with a complex city in an understandable manner, and was very helpful in the planning of our trip. I would recommend it, though get the latest edition

Well written, but out of date already
This guide covers many things that a tourist would like to know. But a year old is too old for fast-changing South Africa. Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. Travel Guides    5. Republic of South Africa    6. Travel & holiday guides   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Restaurants    3. Travel    4. Travel - Foreign    5. Interior design    6. Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc    7. Republic of South Africa    8. Restaurant & pub guides   

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What most of us don't know about Africa
I found the Audio book to be exceptionally well done. Norman Dietz, the reader, is terrific. He "acts" the narratives using his voice, making the 23 hours wonderfully listenable.
"Hoping for the picturesque, expecting misery..."
Forty years after being a Peace Corps worker in Malawi and a teacher in Uganda, Paul Theroux returns to Africa and finds things changed--for the worse. Now approaching his sixtieth birthday and wanting to escape from cell phones, answering machines, the daily newspaper, and being "put on hold," he is determined to travel from Cairo to Cape Town. He believes that the continent "contain[s] many untold tales and some hope and comedy and sweetness, too," and that there is "more to Africa than misery and terror."
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Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Reference - Guides (General)    3. Travel    4. Travel - Foreign    5. Travel Guides    6. Republic of South Africa    7. Travel & holiday guides    8. Travel / Africa   

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A good guide
Very colourful,many pictures, good maps of Cape Town. Excellent charts. Alot of content set out in a totally unboring way. If you find this guideboring then you are simply not interested in Cape Town. However, if you areinterested in Cape Town then you will find out how usefull thisbookactually is, unless you are planning to live there. This is clearly atourist guide. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. United States - South - South Atlantic (General)    5. Republic of South Africa    6. Travel & holiday guides    7. Travel / Africa    8. Travel / road maps & atlases   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Atlases    3. Atlases - General    4. Maps & Road Atlases    5. Travel    6. Travel - Foreign    7. Travel Guides    8. United States - General    9. Republic of South Africa    10. Travel / road maps & atlases   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. Travel Guides    5. Republic of South Africa    6. Travel & holiday guides    7. Travel / Africa   

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Brilliant History & Analysis of A Tragically Divided City.
South African Apartheid remains alive and well, as this study of brutal resettlement programs illustrates. Nelson Mandela's failure to protect the human and civil rights defenseless Cape Town minorities is nothing short ofcriminal. Author's focus is primarily on "Cape Coloureds", peopleof mixed race. Written from the unique perspective of a British socialgeographer, now on the faculty of a major American university. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Africa - South - South Africa    3. Apartheid    4. Cape Town    5. Cape Town (South Africa)    6. Colored people (South Africa)    7. History    8. History - General History    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Race relations    11. Relocation    12. Sociology - Urban    13. South Africa    14. Southern Africa - History    15. Africa    16. African history: postwar, from c 1945 -    17. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    18. Racism & racial discrimination    19. Republic of South Africa    20. Science / Geography    21. TRAVEL & HOLIDAY   

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Kaapstad
This book would make a nice tourist souviner book! Pictures are of white Capetown, you would never know that huge townships ever existed. More of a fluff and PR book! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Travel    2. NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS    3. Republic of South Africa    4. TRAVEL & HOLIDAY   

Subjects:  1. Cooking / Wine    2. Regional & Ethnic - African    3. Travel    4. United States - Northeast - General    5. Health & wholefood cookery    6. Northeastern & North Atlantic states   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. General    3. Travel    4. Travel - Foreign    5. Travel / Africa   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. Travel Guides    5. Republic of South Africa    6. Travel & holiday guides    7. Travel / Africa   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Maps    3. Maps & Road Atlases    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign    6. Republic of South Africa    7. Travel / road maps & atlases   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. Travel Guides    5. Republic of South Africa    6. Travel & holiday guides   

Subjects:  1. Maps, charts & atlases    2. Republic of South Africa    3. Travel / road maps & atlases   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Maps    3. Maps & Road Atlases    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. Travel Guides   

Subjects:  1. Travel    2. Republic of South Africa    3. Travel & holiday guides