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Central Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatooby H. Clapperton

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 155.00

    This account was first published in 1829. more...

  • Mr Stanley, I Presume?by Alan Gallop

    The History Press 2013; US$ 29.17

    Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most often quoted words of greeting of all time - 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' - Henry Morton Stanley was himself a man who characterised the great wave of exploring fever that gripped... more...

  • Fighting the Slave Hunters in Central Africaby Alfred J. Swann

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 175.00

    This volume deals mainly with Swann's life on and around Lake Tanganyika, a life that brought him knowledge of many African peoples living on the lake's shores. First published in 1910. more...

  • Travels into the Interior of Africaby Mungo Park; Anthony Sattin

    Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 7.28

    Mungo Park?s account of his journeys into West Africa in 1795 and again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent. Though he failed in the object of his mission ? to chart the course of the Niger River ? he succeeded in leaving a unique record of everyday life before the exploitation of Africa... more...

  • Stanleyby Frank McLynn

    Random House 2012; US$ 33.37

    Sir Henry Morton Stanley, greatest of African explorers, was one of the most fascinating late Victorian adventurers. Born into poverty and illegitimacy, he survived a series of incredible adventures at sea and in the USA to emerge as a journalist of talent after the American Civil War. His coverage of the British Ethiopian expedition to chastise... more...

  • The Politics of Memoryby Raingard Esser

    BRILL 2012; US$ 163.00

    The Eighty Years? War and the partition of the Low Countries led to the publication of numerous chorographical works on towns and regions in the Northern and Southern Netherlands. This book offers a comparison of these histories reflecting political change and promoting new identities. more...

  • The King's African Rifles - Volume 2by H. Moyse-Bartlett

    Andrews UK 2012; US$ 19.49

    This is a regimental history with a difference, one that is bound up with the history of the British Empire in Africa and the extension and development of British rule in the territories of Somaliland, British East Africa (redesignated Kenya from July 1920), Uganda, Nyasaland and, after 1918, Tanganyika (previously German East Africa). These were the... more...

  • The King's African Rifles - Volume 1by H. Moyse-Bartlett

    Andrews UK 2012; US$ 19.49

    This is a regimental history with a difference, one that is bound up with the history of the British Empire in Africa and the extension and development of British rule in the territories of Somaliland, British East Africa (redesignated Kenya from July 1920), Uganda, Nyasaland and, after 1918, Tanganyika (previously German East Africa). These were the... more...

  • Drink the Bitter Rootby Gary Geddes

    Counterpoint 2012; US$ 26.00

    Drink the Bitter Root is an international story about the ethical and environmental footprint world nations are leaving in Africa in their determined efforts to destabilize and loot the continent. In the spirit of Robert Kaplan and Samantha Power, Gary Geddes sets out in search of justice, healing and reconciliation. He begins his journey at the... more...

  • Drink the Bitter Rootby Gary Geddes

    D & M Publishers 2011; US$ 26.95

    Drink the Bitter Root is an international story about the ethical and environmental footprint world nations are leaving in Africa in their determined efforts to destabilize and loot the continent. In the spirit of Robert Kaplan and Samantha Power, Gary Geddes sets out in search of justice, healing and reconciliation. He begins his journey at the... more...