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Acknowledgments
Dorling Kindersley would like to thank the following Additional Cartography Genené Hart, Eloïse Moss.
people whose contributions and assistance have made Research Assistance Susan Alexander, Sandy Vahl.
the preparation of this book possible. Additional Picture Research Rachel Barber, Phoebe
Lowndes, Ellen Root.
Main Contributors Factcheckers Ariadne Van Zandbergen, Lizzie Williams.
Michael Brett has visited many African countries, Proofreader Debra Wolter.
including Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Indexer Helen Peters.
Mozambique, and has an extensive knowledge of South
Africa. His first book, a detailed guide to the Pilanesberg Revisions Team
National Park in North West Province, South Africa, was Louise Abbott, Beverley Ager, Hansa Babra, Claire
published in 1989. In 1996, he co-authored the Touring Baranowski, Chris Barstow/Coppermill Books, Uma
Atlas of South Africa. He has written Great Game Parks of Bhattacharya, Hilary Bird, Subhadeep Biswas, Arwen
Africa: Masai Mara and Kenya the Beautiful. Articles by Burnett, Caroline Elliker, Alice Fewery, Emer Fitzgerald,
Michael Brett have been published in several travel Sean Fraser, Anna Freiberger, Camilla Gersh, Thea
magazines, as well as in Reader’s Digest. Grobbelaar, Freddy Hamilton, Vinod Harish, Mohammad
Philip Briggs is a travel writer specializing in Africa. In Hassan, Lesley Hay-Whitton, Victoria Heyworth-Dunne,
1991, his Bradt Guide to South Africa was the first such Jacky Jackson, Cincy Jose, Vasneet Kaur, Juliet Kenny,
guidebook to be published internationally after the Sumita Khatwani, Vincent Kurien, Maite Lantaron,
release of Nelson Mandela. Over the rest of the 1990s, Alfred Lemaitre, Carly Madden, Alison McGill, Glynne
he wrote a series of pioneering Bradt Guides including Newlands, Catherine Palmi, Marianne Petrou, Rada
the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Radojicic, John Reeks, Marisa Renzullo, Gerhardt van
Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana and Rwanda. Rooyen, Sands Publishing Solutions, Mitzi Scheepers,
He also contributes to specialist travel and wildlife Ankita Sharma, Azeem Siddiqui, Susana Smith, Conrad
magazines including Africa Birds & Birding, Africa Van Dyk, Laura Walker, Lizzie Williams.
Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa and Wanderlust.
Brian Johnson-Barker was born and educated in Cape Special Assistance
Town, South Africa. After graduating from the University Joan Armstrong, The Howick Publicity Bureau; Coen
of Cape Town and running a clinical pathology laboratory Bessinger, Die Kaapse Tafel; Tim Bowdell, Port Elizabeth City
for some 15 years, he turned to writing. His considerable Council; Dr Joyce Brain, Durban; Katherine Brooks,
involvement in this field has also extended to television MuseuMAfrikA (Johannesburg ); Michael Coke, Durban;
scripts and magazine articles. Among his nearly 50 book Coleen de Villiers and Gail Linnow, South African Weather
titles are Off the Beaten Track (1996) and Illustrated Guide to Bureau; Dr Trevor Dearlove, South African Parks Board;
Game Parks and Nature Reserves of Southern Africa (1997), Louis Eksteen, Voortrekker Museum (Pietermaritzburg);
both published by Reader’s Digest. Lindsay Hooper, South African Museum (Cape Town); Brian
Mariëlle Renssen wrote for South African general- Jackson, The National Monuments Commission; Linda
interest magazine Fair Lady before spending two years in Labuschagne, Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex (Mossel
New York with Young & Modern, a teenage publication Bay); Darden Lotz, Cape Town; Tim Maggs, Cape Town;
owned by the Bertelsmann publishing group. After Hector Mbau, The Africa Café; Annette Miller, Bredas dorp
returning to South Africa, several of her articles were Tourism; Gayla Naicker and Gerhart Richter, Perima’s;
published in magazines such as Food and Home SA and Professor John Parkington, University of Cape Town; Anton
Woman’s Value. Since 1995 she has been the publishing Pauw, Cape Town; David Philips Publisher (Pty) Ltd, Cape
manager of Struik Publishers’ International Division, Town; Bev Prinsloo, Palace of the Lost City; Professor Bruce
during which time she also contributed to Traveller’s Rubidge, University of the Witwatersrand; Jeremy Saville,
Guide to Tanzania. ZigZag Maga zine; Mark Shaw, Barrister’s; Dr Dan Sleigh,
Cape Town; Anthony Sterne, Simply Salmon; David Swane-
Additional Contributors poel, Voortrekker Museum; Johan Taljaard, West Coast
Duncan Cruickshank, Claudia Dos Santos, Luke Hardiman, National Park; Pietermaritzburg Publicity Association;
Gail Jennings, Peter Joyce, Loren Minsky, Roger St Pierre, Beyers Truter, Beyerskloof wine farm, Stellenbosch;
Anne Taylor, Ariadne Van Zendbergen. Dr Lita Webley, Albany Museum, Grahamstown; Lloyd
Wingate and Stephanie Pienaar, Kaffrarian Museum (King
Additional Photography William’s Town); and all provincial tourist authorities and
Greg & Yvonne Dean, Louise Dean, Charley van Dugteren, national and provincial park services.
Hanne and Jens Erikesen, Christopher & Sally Gable, Nigel
Hicks, Josef Hlasek, Anthony Johnson, Mathew Kurien, Photographic and Artwork Reference
Cyril Laubscher, Ian O’Leary, Gary Ombler, John Reeks, Vida Allen and Bridget Carlstein, McGregor Museum
Tony Souter, Linda Whitwam, Jerry Young. (Kimberley); Marlain Botha, Anglo American Library; The
Cape Archives; Captain Emilio de Souza; Petrus Dhlamini,
Additional Illustrations Anton Krugel. Anglo American Corporation (Johannesburg); Gawie

