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Cape Town is one of the richest and most culturally diverse cities in Africa, and one of the most beautiful in the world. Set where two oceans meet and overlooked by Table Mountain, it offers endless beaches, natural attractions, and outdoor opportunities. Gastronomically speaking, the man-made attractions are impressive too—the food and wine are excellent, the cultural life thriving. Reborn after the ugly days of apartheid, Cape Town is a premier holiday destination for Americans, where the dollar goes a long way and English is ubiquitously spoken. The Time Out Cape Town guide gives travelers extensive information on the beaches, the food and wine, and the culture of this fascinating city, with coverage of the beachside suburbs, and the wine lands. This guide offers expert advice on enjoying the city's thriving food and drink scene, with tips on restaurants, local vineyards, cheese farms, strawberry picking, cigar bars, and sunset spots.
Customer Reviews:
Time Out Cape Town: Winelands and the Garden Route.......2007-08-28
As many other Time Out Guides, the Cape Town one didn't let me down. It is a very reliable and updated source on best hotels in town, best shops, best restaurants, bars, and so on, for all budgets. I believe it enhanced greatly my experience of knowing new places. I took my Time Out Guides with me to NYC, New Orleans, Buenos Aires and Cape Town and I must say their recommendations rarely disapointed me. They also have a comprehensive session on tours, museums or sight seeing, but they are not the most complete in the market, though.
EXCELLENT guide to Cape Town.......2005-05-01
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.
Average customer rating:
- Engrossing ...
- Another Paul Theroux adventure
- A wonderful travelogue
- Most educational travel book I've seen to date
- Marvelous, simply marvelous
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Paul Theroux
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Book Description
In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux's reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, dugout canoe, "chicken bus," and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful — and often life-threatening — landscapes on earth.
This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. "Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it," he writes, "hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can't tell the politicians from the witch doctors. Not that Africa is one place. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation."
Seeing firsthand what is happening across Africa, Theroux is as obsessively curious and wittily observant as always, and his readers will find themselves on an epic and enlightening journey. Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books.
Customer Reviews:
Engrossing ..........2007-05-05
I have always liked travelers who like traveling on a whim and who can spontaneously react to a travel urges. And, if the traveler is as erudite, well-traveled and hypercritical as Paul, then the resulting sojourn will enthrall readers with delectable prose that covers a wide spectrum of topics ranging from spiritual journeys, solitude, despair, sublime happiness, humor to socio-politics. Very few travelers seem to have some many facets.
His epic journey takes him through Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The chapter covering his visit to the Dervishes in Omdurman and highlands of Harar are particularly noteworthy. His prose takes on a surreal quality and you won't be able to avoid the vivid imagery from flashing in your mind. Then, suddenly he survives an attack from Shifta bandits on the notoriously-named Bandit Road. Equally hilarious are his interactions with (what he calls) agents of virtues missionaries and aid-workers. One of the best interactions is with a Portuguese-speaking agent of virtue from Ohio who is serving in Mozambique and exacerbating the poor people's (already miserable) lives by making them believe that they are sinners and only the Almighty can absolve (?) them. Amidst all the challenging travel he finds time to pen his erotic novella (wonder if it is out already) while warding of kids teasing him "Muzungu Muzungu"
A couple of years ago, I had written a very critical review of Patagonia Express expressing regret over Paul's critical (bordering harsh) comments and the seemingly missing spiritual side. However, since that review I have undertaken many long & dangerous journeys myself and can relate to his experiences much better. Travel is like exploring unknown realms within the self. It is a journey into the past and also into the future whilst enjoying the present. Travel will dissolve all impurities, break the deceptive veneer and will rejuvenate your mind.
He is up amongst the best travel writers of all times. Kudos!!!
Another Paul Theroux adventure.......2006-06-10
"Being in Africa was like being on a dark star."
Paul Theroux isn't a "travel writer." He is a "traveler who writes." The nature of this beast is that Theroux is totally uninhibited about discussing smells, ugly people, dirty rooms, and sad situations. He is very real in a... Paul Theroux way. Others would have a different approach to describing their travels, and adventures.
On African cities:
"Even at their best, African cities seemed to me miserable improvised anthills, attracting the poor and the desperate from the bush and turning them into thieves and devisers of cruel scams. Scamming is the survival mode in a city where tribal niceties do not apply and there are no sanctions except those of the police, a class of people who in Africa generally are little more than licensed thieves" (p. 93).
"I was in no hurry, I wasn't due anywhere, yet whenever I arrived in an African city, I wanted to leave" (p. 255).
On international aid workers:
"That was to be fairly typical of my experience with aid workers in rural Africa: they were, in general, oafish self-dramatizing prigs, and often complete bastards" (p. 146).
This is Theroux's reputation: a critical and cynical observer of people [I wonder what he really thinks!]. This book should be titled Dark Star Safari for the Thick-Skinned.
A wonderful travelogue.......2006-02-13
I read "Dark Star Safari" on a long plane ride from Asia. It was fitting because SE Asia holds a place in my life somewhat akin to Africa in Theroux's, although unlike him, I get back to Asia on a fairly regular basis.
Theroux's observations and point of view will be familiar to anyone who has lived abroad at a key time in their life and made an effort to get beyond the usual expat and tourist destinations. Like me, Theroux encounters people who have risen in their countries, with varying outcomes. He is clearly dismayed by much of what he sees and gets cranky and, at times, paternalistic. He also reflects on his crankiness and paternalism, which tends to be rare in travel writing. Still, the book is his funniest since "Kingdom by the Sea". He is at his best lampooning foreigners, esp. aid workers, evangelical missionaries and high-end tourists (not to mention Germans and Brits), all suitable targets, in my opinion. The only missionaries who come off well are the Catholic nuns--dedicated people doing difficult work in unglamorous places and clearly enjoying their independence and distance from anything resembling authority. I've known similar Catholic clergy in SE Asia. For the places in Africa I've visited, his portraits of locals and locales are dead-on. He perfectly captures the annoying "my friend, come into my shop" world of tourist Cairo, as well as the oddly depressing sunshine of Hurghada, and the many sides of life in post-apartheid South Africa.
The book is illuuminating because Theroux toured the continent on largely local transportation, with local people, and yet, can draw on the observations of acquaintances like Nadile Goldimer. Readers unused to Theroux's crankiness or his disdain for sliminess on the part of locals or foreigners will not enjoy this book, nor will fans of the NGO movement. Hard ideological partisans of the Left & Right won't like it either. Theroux is able to be blunt, as well as sentimental in his observations, because of his knowledge and affection for the place. A sightseer's travelogue this isn't. For people who truly love the adventure of a journey and those who know what it's like to live some place and know it well enough to love it, the book will be very rewarding.
Most educational travel book I've seen to date.......2005-05-06
Dark Star Safari is a journey through the REAL Africa. From Cairo to Cape Town Paul travels along the worst roads and through the toughest villages that you won't see on a tourist safari, talking with and learning from everyone he meets along the way. From that perspective this was the most educational travel book to date that I've seen.
One of the consistent observations throughout the book is that wherever Paul traveled the detriment brought to Africa by aid workers is quite clear. Aid is not helping, and it never did. It only contributes to the under-development in Africa and only serves to keep the local despots and corrupt, stagnated governments in power. In Malawi, as in the much of the rest of Africa, the NGOs (Non-governmental Organizations) and virtue activists hire away the local teachers (who only make $27 to $67 dollars a month) offering them better pay and conditions to become food distributors. Few of the villages even have teachers any more.
The author speaks with a knowledge and history of Africa that few others possess since he had lived and worked as a teacher in Africa during the 1960s. As Paul states, foreign aid workers "&didn't realize that for forty years people had been saying the same things, and the result, after four decades, was a lower standard of living, a higher rate of illiteracy, over population, and much more disease. Foreigners working for development agencies didn't stand long. So they never discovered the full extent of their failure. Africans saw them come and go."
Labor-intensive projects are extremely rare in Africa because of self-serving foreign "aid" that require "purchases of machinery have to be made in the donor country, or that bids be restricted to firms in the donor country, or that a time limit be placed on the scheme which encourages the tendency towards large contracts and heavy spending on equipment." Paul also verifies what I had first read about in Jim Roger's Adventure Capitalist. All of the used clothing donated to churches to be distributed to "poor Africa" becomes merchandise the second the cargo ship leaves the port. When it reaches its destination it's purchased in large blocks by merchants who resell them. The author picks up some "new" clothes himself in order to avoid looking like a tourist. His T-shirt read "Top-Notch Plumbing". Of course, all this "good-well aid" does nothing but to hurt Africa's economy. There was a time, not too long ago, when some of the best tailors in the world were in Africa. But how can you be a tailor when the West sends clothes over for practically free? Why be a farmer when the West wants to feed you for free? What's the best industry in Kenya? Coffins. Coffin-making is a booming industry. In one area of Malawi the people are growing their own Maize crops but are using hybrid seeds resulting in big plants but sterile seeds. The farmers can't set aside plants as seed corn because they are all sterile! As Theroux says, "Without free seeds each year these people would starve."
What angers me the most though is what I have seen verified in other reports, namely aid workers "were no more than a maintenance crew on a power trip". Other than a Nun or two who had moved to Africa on their own accord, none of the aid workers, in other words the NGO aid workers, were happy to be there or in the slightest bit helpful to the author. They're all too busy driving around in their air-conditioned Land Rovers to get out and actually help people.
The happiest and most self-sufficient villages that Theroux encountered were, in a very consistent pattern, all out-of-the-way such that the government and aid workers ignored then and didn't mess with them.
There is much more to the book though than state of Africa's corruption. The author's adventures are incredible. It's incredible that he actually lived to tell the tale actually. If you want a romantic story of big-game hunters in Africa, ready Hemingway. If you want reality, read Theroux.
Marvelous, simply marvelous.......2004-10-08
I found Dark Star Safari to be one of the best books I have read in a long time. Theroux's sometimes cynical view of Africa is simply delightful. While I must admit that I know very little about Africa, Dark Star Safari has fully dissuaded me from ever visiting or giving to any charities that might operate there. I was prepared for the standard blindly-optimistic evaluation of charities in Africa and I found Theroux's experiences, criticism and realistic assesments to be both sobering and refreshing. In addition to being an engaging travel book, Dark Star Safari is also a thought-provoking journey into the causes, conditions and inevitability of African poverty and misery. I highly recommend this great literary work to anyone with the least interest in Africa, the charities and people there, or anyone else who just likes a good book.
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Thomas Kincade, also known as the "Painter of Light", is a true American phenomenon. Beloved by millions for his paintings, Thomas Kincade is often asked by his fans what kind of people inhabited his landscapes. Cape Light is the answer.
Thomas Kincade has become a modern-day Norman Rockwell, painting, in his words, "scenes that serve as places of refuge for battle-weary people." In this novel, he invites readers to enter a similar place of refuge: Cape Light. Nestled in Coastal New England, this picturesque little village is a seaside hamlet where folks still enjoy a strong sense of community, and everybody cares about their neighbors. they are friends and neighbors, doers and dreamers. They are the people who laugh and love and build their lives together in the town of Cape Light--and their story will capture readers' hearts forever.
Customer Reviews:
Cape Light.......2007-07-16
If you love the charactyer of seaside towns or a community that really understands the true meaning of community, then you will enjoy this book. A variety of events that happen in the town, as you get to know the characters you live through each experience with them.
Very enjoyable reading!
A Gem In the World Of Fiction.......2007-04-29
I am so glad that I have found this lovely series of books! It is so refreshing to read some great fiction without tons of sex, violence and/or language filling the pages. These are gripping characters who keep the story alive without resorting to all of the 'junk' that a lot of today's authors turn to. I would not be concerned one bit if my small children read this book - it's just a good wholesome read with a little bit of God and faith thrown in (without shoving the Gospel down your throat).
A wonderful collection of characters.......2006-10-24
This is an excellent series that depicts the characters in a small New England seaside town. The characters are alive and interactive. I have enjoyed each book in the series and look forward to more.
His books describe this little town and the people who live there as well as his paintings describe the cottages and the seashores, all with the wonderful light.
Wonderful.......2006-07-01
I loved this book. It gives you hope. It was so wonderful I have read every other Cape Light novel by Thomas Kinkade and katherine Spencer. I am anxiously awaiting the new on that comes out in October of 2006.
And you thought his art was bad.............2006-05-25
I am astounded to find out that Mr. Kinkade is even a worse author than he is a painter. This book is a perfect bathroom fit, not to read, but to wipe with.
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At the southern tip of Africa, this city is an enticing taste of an entire continent. Somewhere between the good looks of this cosmopolitan city and the realities of its surrounding suburbs is the true Cape Town. Eat out at the local hot spots, surf the secret breaks, or drum a tabletop to the tempo of a resident jazz ensemble. This guide will help you dig beneath the glittereing surface and find your own unique take on the Cape.
o CLIMB TABLE MOUNTAIN - our dedicated chapter will help you decide when, how, why and with whom
o QUAFF A STEEN - from grand old vineyards to the workers' wines, our special chapter on wine will tickle your palate
o SEE EVERY ANGLE - take a grass-roots tour of the Cape Flats, or wander the colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap; we've got every option covered
o GET SOME RHYTHM - catch some jazz in this city that pounds to a perpetual beat
o FLY, DIVE, AND SAIL - our hand-picked activities listings will have you skimming across the waves, diving with the sharks or catching a bird's-eye view of the Cape
Customer Reviews:
Disorganized and a waste of money.......2005-05-03
SUMMARY OF MY REVIEW: Save your money and get free guides at the Cape Town tourism office instead!!!
Lonely Planet guides usually rate pretty good in my view, but this guide to Cape Town has made me re-think my devotion to Lonely Planet books. The one positive thing I have to say about this book is that it is small and packs easily, and that is why I think this guide deserves even one star.
The book is a very disorganized rambling description of Cape Town and neighboring communities. The guidebook begins with a historical overview, which is appreciated, but then is divided into sections that defy logical order. One of the first sections in the book, for example, is about wineries. Why is this section near the front of the book? Shouldn't more essential Cape Town items like lodging and dining come before wineries? Some destinations, such as the wine country, have different descriptions in more than one section of the book, making this book even more frustrating to use.
Additionally, there are very detailed descriptions for things like how to buy a car in Cape Town (how many vacationers are actually going to buy a car and then resell it while on their vacation???), but descriptions of more touristy things like Table Mountain or the Kirstenbosch Gardens are lacking.
Speaking of lacking, when you're in a new city, good maps are essential. So why are the maps in this guide so lacking in detail? The free maps at the Cape Town tourist office are ten times better.
It would be a much more effective guidebook if (1) it were organized in a more logical fashion, and (2) gave readers a clearer picture of what is a "must see" versus something not so good. Frommer's has a pretty good guide to South Africa in general, but I bought this one because it was specific to Cape Town and because it was small and portable.
Bottom line is that if you go to Cape Town, avoid using this as a guide. I'm sure there are better guides out there. If not, the tourist offices in Cape Town are EXCELLENT resources.
Deals with the city well.......2002-04-20
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.......1999-07-07
This guide covers many things that a tourist would like to know. But a year old is too old for fast-changing South Africa.
It is nice to see Lonely Planet adding web pages - but I wish there was an index somewhere rather than having to search through the book looking for them once I'm at the computer!
This book is incorrect, poorly written, unreliable.......1999-06-26
I would not recommend this book
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A quaint New England village by the sea, Cape Light is populated by an unforgettable cast of characters who know the importance of lending a hand and cultivating gratitude. Even though their lives are sometimes touched by disappointment, the residents of this close-knit community have discovered time and again how love has the remarkable power to sustain our spirit and heal our suffering.
Ever since her bitter divorce, single mom Molly Willoughby has become increasingly disillusioned by matters of the heart. Over the years, she has shied away from love-and given up on her dream of opening her own catering business. But then she meets newcomer Dr. Matthew Foster, who inspires her to take another look at her life-and dream that success and love may be possible.
But Matthew, a widower who's come to Cape Light to make a new start for himself and his teenage daughter, is wracked with guilt over the loss of his wife. And although Molly is like a breath of fresh air, he is reluctant to risk a new relationship. But if he doesn't find a way to put the past behind him, he may miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime love...
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New Leaf. A: Cape Light #4 by Thomas Kinkade.......2007-04-23
The book arrived in a very timely manner and was in very good condition. I was pleased with my purchase.
A New Leaf.......2005-09-21
Great service. I was very satisfied with the book and the timely matter that it got here.
The Books continue to be amazing.......2004-07-20
From the first time I picked up the first book in the series, I can not wait for the next one to come out. This is truly a wonderfully written series and I enjoy every minute I am reading them.
A New Leaf.......2004-07-14
Book arrived in excellent condition. Shipped 2 days after I placed order and received in 3 days. Excellent service.
This book is slow and very boring.......2004-05-27
I am sorry to have to say these things but I feel it necessary to be honest. I am a avid reader and I picked this book up to try this author. This book was very slow and the characters are very shallow.I felt no attachment or pull to any of them. I kept waiting for something to happen but to my dissapointment it never came. You as a reader can tell from the first few chapters exactly what will take place in this book. There was nothing in this book of interest to me as a reader and I will think twice next time before reading anything from this author.
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Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life the city's history, culture, current affairs and, above all, the people. Incisive evaluations: From the top of Table Mountain to the VandA Waterfront, from Robben Island to Cape Point, it's all here. Evocative photography: Insight Guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Pictorial guides to key aspects of Cape Town: Detailed photo-geatures on Robben Island, favourite sports, and Cape flora. Area maps plus street atlas: Main sites are cross-referenced by number from text to maps and a street atlas proves the overall picture. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels and contact numbers you'll need.
Customer Reviews:
A must-have if you're heading to Cape Town.......2006-03-06
I got this guide as a gift. My friends have the Lonely Planet one and I have seen other brands for Cape Town. The Insight guide is 10 million times better than most of the competition. More detailed and useful photographs, all in color, at least one on each page. Short text but crammed with information for those who would rather spend time on adventures than reading a guide book. It was very entertaining to read as well. If you're going to Cape Town, get this book and you will know what I mean. Their warning about Long Street is hilarious. Their description of the people who hang out at the Clifton Beaches is unbelievable coming from a guide book. There are little interesting stories/facts throughout the book such as the one about the first female doctor to perform a C-section. She was pretending to be a man in order to be a doctor and the truth was only discovered when she died. Again, this book is such a great deal for the price and beats almost all other guidebooks out there at under $10.
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With enough heart-pumping activities, from abseiling to paragliding, as well as more relaxed outings to beaches, vineyards and museums, Cape Town easily fills an extended visit. But many, if not most, visitors venture much further east, out along the Garden Route, whose enticements include some of the best land-based whale-watching in the world, crashing seascapes, dappled forests and, at its culmination, lions and elephants in the best game reserve in the southern half of the country. The Rough Guide to Cape Town and the Garden Route is the definitive guide to Cape Town, its stunning environs (including Table Mountain, Cape Point, the Winelands and the Whale Coast) and the Garden Route all the way to Port Elizabeth and the Addo Elephant National Park.
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- A taut and gripping book
- Important, but not his best work
- Personal!
- You can be in the middle of hell and not see it
- Worth your time
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Age of Iron
J.M. Coetzee
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Mrs. Cullen, the narrator in this novel, is an elderly white woman dying of cancer in a country afflicted with its own mortal sickness.
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A taut and gripping book.......2005-08-12
In this novel first published in 1990, Mr Coetzee gives the grim account of both a human being facing imminent death and a country - South Africa - still immersed in the tragedy of the apartheid regime. Mrs Curren, a professor of classics in Cape Town, has just received the fatal news from her doctor, Dr Syfert, that she suffers from an incurable form of cancer. Part of the narrative consists in an imaginary letter Mrs Curren will never write to her daughter who left for America in 1976. Indeed she does not consider it to be just to share her burden with her daughter but, as she puts it, "to resist the craving to share my death", "to take my leave without bitterness" and "to embrace death as my own, mine alone." But since it is nearly impossible for her to approach death without the support of another human being, she ends up sharing her thoughts and life with Mr Vercueil, a tramp she finds one morning sleeping in the garden of her house.
Death is omnipresent in Mr Coetzee's work, not only Mrs Curren's but in the townships of Cape Town where the lives of the coloureds are worth next to nothing and therefore death is as common as life for the people obliged to live there. A powerful, sad and unforgettable tale whose characters and events cut to the bone.
Important, but not his best work.......2005-06-05
As usual, we can trust Coetzee to deliver some brilliant insights on the human condition, most specifically as it related to South Africa during the last years of Apartheid. Here, however, I felt Coetzee's stiff, cold prose style and his inability to create rich and whole characters undermined the storytelling and left me wishing it held together a bit more tightly; as it is the characters feel very flat and the book loses its emotive force because of this. Still, it's definitely worth reading to get a sense of the reality of Apartheid and how a government can keep its own citizenry ignorant.
Personal!.......2004-01-30
One can't help but be touched by the personalities woven in this story. Far from stereotypes, the characters are given credibility as individuals, each with their own stories, each with their own reasons for action. Even with the fall of official apartheid, this book goes into the human condition, and with or without governmental promotion, apartheid or something very much like it, will always be with us.
You can be in the middle of hell and not see it.......2003-11-20
Interesting and non-obvious look at apartheid. This book raises questions such as: what responsibility does one have for the crimes of a government that have benefitted you - even if you find those crimes repulsive and didn't ask for them; what kind of future can a nation have when it's children have been so brutalized that they become brutalizors themselves. I also think, as my title implies, that this book really exposes the way a community can blind itself or be blinded by others, gov't, media, etc., to the carnage and horror taking place all around them. If you can believe that a South African would be blind to the inhumanity trangressing in their country, then it's not so hard to believe how people in less brutal situations can also not understand or believe what goes on in their community.
Worth your time.......2003-10-21
Coetzee presents us with a picture of apartheid from the perspective of an old woman in South Africa who had never had a chance to get close to her own country's reality.
Definitely worth your time. Easy to read too.
Book Description
The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by color photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that Cape Town has to offer. This travel book surpasses other guides in that it incorporates essential information in an easy-to-carry and easy-to-read format that is attractive
and useful at the same time. It provides a visitor with an invaluable introduction to Cape Town by concisely highlighting the region’s ‘must see’ areas in a practical and user-friendly format, thus encouraging the tourist to make the most of his/her available time. All the essential information you need to get around an unfamiliar region is compacted into useful and practical ‘At-a-Glance’ sections at the end of each chapter. The fold-out map of Cape Town is ideal for tourists and visitors. In addition to the main map of Cape Town, which highlights scenic routes, it features 3 detailed area maps and 2 town plans.
Customer Reviews:
A good guide.......1998-09-15
Very colourful,many pictures, good maps of Cape Town. Excellent charts. A lot of content set out in a totally unboring way. If you find this guide boring then you are simply not interested in Cape Town. However, if you are interested in Cape Town then you will find out how usefull this book actually is, unless you are planning to live there. This is clearly a tourist guide.
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A charming village on the New England coast, Cape Light is the kind of place where neighbors help each other and people take the time to appreciate the little things. Sometimes their lives are touched by heartbreak and disappointment, but there's something special about the folks in this tightly knit community-and their unforgettable stories remind us of the extraordinary healing power of love.
Now that the Cape Light election is over, Mayor Emily Warwick can finally focus on her burgeoning relationship with Sara-the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. Seeing her after all these years has stirred up some conflicting feelings for Emily.
While she is grateful to have Sara back in her life, she can't help but regret their years apart. Typically she would turn to Reverend Ben for guidance, but turmoil within his own family has inspired a crisis of faith for the minister, making him question whether he is qualified to counsel his congregants. And then there's the fact that Emily is slowly falling for newspaper publisher Dan Forbes, who'd been all set to leave for an extended sailing trip until an accident dashed his plans-giving him and Emily more time to develop their bond.
But with two grown children of his own, would Dan ever want to start another family? Emily hopes so-because she's hoping for a second chance at life...
Customer Reviews:
Another great series to look forward to reading.......2007-02-18
Thomas Kinkade has given us a new series to look forward to that is
comparable to Jan Karon's Mitford books. If you liked them, you are
bound to fall in love with the characters in this New England town.
I *love* this series!.......2004-01-10
I absolutely love the "Cape Light" series. As far as I'm concerned, Thomas Kinkade can't write them quickly enough! I'm actually starting "A New Leaf" today - it finally arrived! This is a wonderful series of books about the Christian spirit, love of family and friends, and the way people in a small town pull together. I love these books and will recommend them to everyone! :)
Thoroughly enjoyed!.......2003-07-16
I have read all three books in the series, and the books do pull you in. You get attached to the characters and want to read more about them. You feel like you live in the village of Cape Light and know all the people personally. I'm looking forward to the next book.
This is a Wonderful Series.......2003-07-04
I have truly enjoyed reading the Cape Light Series. I really hope the authors continue the series, as I would love to read more abotu the town and people of Cape Light. The authors have done a wonderful job of making you feel like you are part of the town, and make the characters so interesting. I look forward to the next book.
Wonderful Series!.......2003-06-18
I have really enjoyed reading this series. The authors have done a good job of writing to stimulate my imagination! They keep me engrossed to the very end. I cannot wait for the next one if there is going to be one?
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