Travel Books
Guide Books and other Namibian literature
We've compiled a list of what we believe are the best guide books, novels, coffee table books and travel writing about Namibia. You may want to purchase these to help plan your trip, to read during your travels or as a reminder of your Namibian adventure. To make things as simple as possible for you - we've provided links to individual books on 5 major book sites - the American, UK, French & German Amazon outlets as well as Kalahari.net in South Africa.
If you have any recommendations for further reading, or comments on our suggestions we would love to hear them - emails us with your suggestions
Clicking on the relevant Amazon banner below will also take you to an on-line store for that country. We've tried to suggest relevant and language specific titles in these bookstores and they are a great way to browse our recommendations & see customer reviews for the individual books.
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Travel Guides |
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| Botswana & Namibia - Lonely Planet |  |
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| Namibia - Footprints | |
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| Namibia - Bradt | |
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| Namibia - Jeremiah Allen | |
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| Namibia - Culture Smart: the essential guide to customs & culture - Whiting | |
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| Namibia: Das komplette Handbuch - Schettar | |
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| Stefan Loose Travel Handbücher Namibia |
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| Le Petit futé, Namibie | |
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Culture |
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| Where Fire Speaks - Shields / Campion | |
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| The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees - Crandall | |
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| Histories of Namibia - Leys | |
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| Katutura: A Place Where We Stay - Pendleton | |
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| Heat, Dust & Dreams - Rice / Gibson | |
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| Nineteen with a Bullet - Korff | |
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| Kaiser's Holocaust - Erichsen / Olusoga | |
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| Words Cannot Be Found - Silvester / Gewald | |
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| Namibia's Liberation Struggle - Leys | |
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| A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990 - Wallace | |
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| Namibia Under South African Rule: Mobility And Containment, 1915-46 - Hayes | |
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| Bush of Ghosts - Liebenberg | |
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| Histories of Namibia: Living Through the Liberation Struggle - Leys | |
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| Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies & National Identity In Namibia - Walther | |
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| The Colonising Camera: Photographs in the Making of Namibian History - Hartmann | |
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Fauna |
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| The Elephant's Secret Sense - O'Connell | |
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| The Safari Companion - Estes | |
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| Southern African Wildlife - Bradt | |
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| Wildlife of Southern Africa - Carruthers | |
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| Mammals of Southern Africa - Apps | |
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| Behaviour Guide to African Mammals - Estes | |
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| Tracks & Tracking in Southern Africa - Liebenberg | |
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| Field Guide to Tracks & Signs of Southern & Eastern African Wildlife - Stuart | |
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| Field Guide to the Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa - Branch | |
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| Sasol Birds of Southern Africa - Sinclair | |
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| Newman's Birds of Southern Africa | |
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| Roberts Bird Guide | |
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Flora |
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| Field Guide to Trees in Southern Africa - van Wyk | |
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| How to Identify Trees in Southern Africa - van Wyk | |
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| An Elephant's Life: An Intimate Portrait from Africa - O'Connell | |
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Elephant Scientist, The - O'Connell, Jackson, Rodwell | |
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| Namibia - Hoberman | |
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| Places in the Sand - Clarke | |
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| Scenic Namibia - Dressler | |
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Travel Books |
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| Backseat Safari - Keene-Young | |
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| Sands of Silence - Capstick | |
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| Lost World of the Kalahari - van der Post | |
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| The Other Side of Silence - Brink | |
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| The Sheltering Desert / Wenn es Krieg gibt, gehen wir in die Wüste - Martin | |
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| Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon | |
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| Hummeldumm - Jaud | |
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| The new Otjiherero Dictionary | |
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