Reading and Reference Books

Library among the rocks - Amalinda Lodge, Zimbabwe

Field References

Your guide will have reference books with them in the vehicle but you may wish to have your own. These are our suggestions for field references that are applicable to the Southern African Region, and not too large and unwieldy:

• Mammals: Smithers - Mammals of Southern Africa

• Birds: Hockey, Sinclair & Taboten - SASOL Birds of Southern Africa

• Trees: Van Wyk - Trees of Southern Africa - Roodt - Trees and Shrubs of the Okavango Delta

• Reptiles: Marais & Alexander - A Guide to the Reptiles of Southern Africa

• Stars: Fairall - Stargazing from Game Reserves in Southern Africa

• Photography: Butchart - Wildlife of South Africa: A Photographer’s Guide

Apps

• Sasol - ebirds, efrogs

• ASI - snakes, scorpions, spiders

• Stuarts’ African Mammals

• E-trees of Southern Africa

Travel Guides

• Bradt Travel Guides - check their website for updates www.bradtguides.com

Countries

Botswana

• Owens - Cry of the Kalahari

• Scott - Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

• McCall Smith - Botswana’s Number One Ladies Detective Agency

• Joyce & Balfour - This is Botswana

• Pickford - The Miracle Rivers - The Okavango and Chobe of Botswana

Zambia

• Lamb - The Africa House

• Owens - The Eye of the Elephant

Zimbabwe

• Michler - The Victoria Falls: The Insider’s Guide

• Berger & Hilton-Barber - Explore Victoria Falls

• Lamb - House of Stone (Zambia)

• Lessing - African Laughter

• Teede - Zambezi