Picture & Reference Books

Discover new places with fully updated road atlases from Collins. Full colour map of Ireland at 9 miles to 1 inch (1:570,240), with clear, detailed road network and counties and new administrative areas shown in colour. This double-sided map covers the whole of Ireland, and is ideal for reference or route planning.

Join Allen Ambor on a rock 'n roll ride through the restaurant business and pioneering days of franchising in South Africa. Ambor's exuberance for life and exacting management style shine through on every page of this biography of the man who went from being a hippy waiter to opening the first Spur in 1967.

Philip's is No. 1 in the UK for clear mapping and the Philip's 2022 Road Atlas Britain and Ireland is the top of the range, mid A4-sized, paperback atlas featuring fully updated maps from the Philip's digital database. The maps are super-clear and have been voted Britain's clearest and most detailed in an independent consumer survey.

The detail you need - at a size you can read. No more squinting to read the index or guessing whether that really is the village you want. Philip's new range of super-clear, large-scale maps means that everyone can read easily. Easy to use, too, as an A3 spiral bound road atlas that lies flat when opened.

Dr. Abraham Luckhoff het as dominee, koerantman en diplomaat op drie vastelande gewerk en so 'n leeftyd se humoristiese staaltjies en stories bymekaargemaak.

Toe hy 21 jaar gelede vir die eerste keer in Parys aankom, sou die kunstenaar Louis Jansen van Vuuren hom nooit kon indink dat hy eendag 'n chateau in die Franse platteland sou besit nie.

When the artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren first visited Paris he could never have imagined that he would end up owning a chateau in rural France.

She and her husband Phil started The Royal Portfolio in 1999. 20 years on and Liz is now at the helm of four of the most glamourous luxury boutique hotels in the world.

In this celebration of Jewish life at the tip of the African continent, businessman and philanthropist, Tony Raphaely, has curated stunning individual and group portraits that collectively represent a snapshot in time of Cape Town's vibrant Jewish community.

A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography and their unique histories and residents.

KwaZulu-Natal is culturally rich, offering a wide range of writers - writing mainly in English and Zulu - who are linked through their lives and their writing to this province of South Africa. The writers include, to name just a few, Alan Paton, Roy Campbell, Lewis Nkosi, Ronnie Govender, Wilbur Smith, Daphne Rooke, Credo Mutwa and Gcina Mhlophe.

An African safari is arguably one of the most alluring and easily understood dreams of our time. Just the thought of an African safari evokes thoughts of adventure, a journey through nature's greatest spectacle, a glimpse of the earth before man. African Safari is an exploration of all that the word safari encompasses, from journeys on horseback and dugout canoes, the quiet drifting of a balloon and the tension of waiting on foot to the smell of dung, soil and the rain. African Safari is an int