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Forest books

Plants and animals in Dalene Matthee’s Forest Novels

Download these eBrochures compiled by Nanna Joubert:

  • Birds (.pdf 0.8 mb)
  • Mammals (.pdf 0.4 mb)
  • Fish and Invertebrates (.pdf 0.4 mb)
  • Reptiles and Amphibians (.pdf 0.2 mb)
  • Plants (.pdf 0.4 mb)
  • Trees (.pdf 3.4 mb)
  • Fungi and Mosses (.pdf 0.2 mb)

Dalene Matthee Books

  • Circles in a Forest
  • The Mulberry Forest
  • Fiela’s Child
  • Dreamforest
  • The Day the Swallows Spoke
  • Pieternella, Daughter of Eva
  • Driftwood
As rich and deep and dark and luminous as the forest world she so generously evokes.
- André P. Brink
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