Bradt Travel Guides

Africa Overland – 5th Edition

Siân Pritchard-Jones & Bob Gibbons

The story of overland travel in Africa is one of constant flux.  Roads once easily navigated become impassable, borders once freely crossed are later sealed to all traffic.  However, as one door closes another opens, and areas of Africa formerly off limits such as Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea open up.  Siân and Bob’s own travels down the west coast of Africa during 2008 were directed by these tidal changes and catalysed the fifth edition of Africa Overland.  The book’s packing check-list, guidance on vehicle purchase, fault-finding and terrain-driving tips offer straightforward practical advice that’ll pay huge dividends in country.  In short, Africa Overland is essential reading for those planning a self-drive adventure, whether by 4×4, old banger, motorcycle or push bike.

Price: £16.99
ISBN: 978 1 84162 283 5
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Ethiopia – 5th Edition

Phillip Briggs

The central plateau of Ethiopia, covering half the country, is probably the largest area of fertile land in eastern Africa – hardly the endless desert still perpetuated by mass media.  The new updated edition of Ethiopia covers Ethiopian Orthodox Christian heritage, including remarkable rock-hewn churches ‘built by angels’, together with the country’s great wealth of breathtaking landscapes.  Details of hiking trails in the Simien and Bale Mountains offer the combination of stunning scenery and opportunities to track and observe endemic wildlife such as Ethiopian wolves, Gelada baboons and rich avifauna.  Throughout, author Philip Briggs draws on a knowledge born of genuine enthusiasm to tell the good news about Africa, and to counter Ethiopia’s enduring association with famine and poverty.

Price: £16.99
ISBN: 978 1 84162 284 2
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Switzerland Without a Car – 4th Edition

Anthony Lambert

Let’s face it: right now cars are not fashionable.  Prohibitively expensive fuel, punitive taxes and traffic-clogged roads have taken the va va voom out of motoring and left us with a resounding phut.  Author Anthony Lambert, always an enthusiastic proponent of rail travel, concludes that the Swiss have it cracked with probably the world’s finest public-transport system.  Lambert’s updated guide goes well beyond rail travel to include lake steamers, cable cars, postbuses, cycling routes and hiking trails in a convincing case for car-free leisure travel in Switzerland.  Combine an infrastructure supported by appropriate investment with unlimited travel over most of the network via the country’s Swiss Pass scheme and you can see he may have a point.

Price: £14.99
ISBN: 978 1 84162 185 2
Publication: Out Now!