Welcome to Springbok Press
Springbok Press is a new, niche South African publisher who aims to provide the local and international book markets with absorbing South African content. Our book list is deliberately small so that we can give the right amount of attention to each title and, because of this, we plan only to add a couple of new books every year. While we are passionate supporters of Springbok Rugby, our name has nothing to do with sport; yet it has everything to do with the hardy and quintessential South African antelope that still graces the plains of South Africa's arid interior. Because for us at Springbok Press, the mentally invigorating spaces of the Karoo and the Kalahari continue to fill us with wonder and inspiration - and the agile Springbok knows just how we feel.
Latest Releases
Karoo Tales and Images
Short stories were Nicholas Yell’s way of recording his impressions of the quirky characters
he met when he first
moved to the Karoo. While living in Aberdeen in a lovingly restored ‘platdak Karoo-huis’,
he drove thousands of
kilometres of dirt tracks, always in search of a story and characters which he could later
weave into his fictionalized
accounts. But many of his trademark ‘twist in the tale’ stories reflect only the vaguest of
truths and rely solely on
his own off-beat imagination to entertain the reader.
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Blood on the Path
This is the sweeping, adventurous saga of all the people of the African sub-continent who,
100 years ago, became the first South Africans. It is an exciting and fast-moving historic
account in novel form, and although it is packed with arresting and accessible facts,
the story eschews long lists of dates and reams of text concerning treks, frontier wars
and the racial struggles of the period.
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Circling the Great Karoo
Following on the success of the previous edition, this re-edited,
updated and revitalized version, chronicling Nicholas Yell’s epic
journey through the Karoo on an old scrambler, is a must-read for
the historically-inclined adventure traveller.
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