East and Southern Africa: The Backpacker’s Guide

This Bradt guide is in competition with the Lonely Planet series which, until recently, has been the backpacker’s bible. Philip Briggs gives the other series a good run for its money in this excellent guide to the area, which covers one quarter of the continent as a whole. The area does in some respects, cover a reasonably cohesive unit. Geographically, East and South Africa is given some unity by the Great Rift Valley which runs from the Red Sea in the North to the Zambesi Valley in the South. In historical terms, the region has been bound together by the...