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  • The Shadow of the Sunby Ryszard Kapuscinski

    Knopf Publishing Group 2001; US$ 11.99

    In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria. He wrestles a king cobra to the death and suffers through a bout of malaria. What emerges is an extraordinary depiction of Africa--not as a group of nations or geographic locations--but as a vibrant and frequently joyous montage of peoples, cultures, and encounters.... more...

  • Frommer's South Africa by Pippa de Bruyn

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 22.99

    Meticulously researched and beautifully written by a South African native, Frommer's South Africa, 3rd Edition, should be the discerning reader's only guide to a memorable trip to southern Africa, including the lion-rich reserves of Botswana and the wonders of Victoria Falls. It offers complete safari coverage, from what to wear to the top game lodges to tracking tips from professional safari trackers. more...

  • Green Hills of Africaby Ernest Hemingway

    Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 11.99

    "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave." -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him... more...

  • The Global Etiquette Guide to Africa and the Middle Eastby Dean Foster

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 17.95

    Authored by one of the world's leading cross-cultural experts. Invaluable for both business and leisure travelers. Comprehensive and practical coverage. more...

  • Travels in West Africaby Mary H. Kingsley

    Digireads.com 2004; US$ 5.49

    At age 30, Mary Kingsley, left England for West Africa to collect botanical specimens for a book left unfinished by her father at his death. This is the story of her travels. more...

  • Travels in the Interior Districts of Africaby Mungo Park

    Digireads.com 2004; US$ 5.99

    The account of Mungo Park's Mission to find the Niger River in the Interior of Africa and document its potential as an inland waterway for trade. more...

  • Into Africaby Martin Dugard

    Doubleday Publishing 2003; US$ 11.99

    With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement. In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great... more...

  • Travels in the Interior Districts of Africaby Mungo Park

    Soft Editions 2003; US$ 6.99

    In 1795, at the age of twenty-four, Mungo Park began a journey from the Gambia into the uncharted interior of the African continent. Travelling with only native guides, and later entirely alone, his goal was to become the first European to reach the River Niger and the fabled city of Timbuctoo. The journey took him through warring African kingdoms and the fringes of the Sahara Desert, leading him into great physical hardship and danger. He endured imprisonment by a Moorish chief for several months, was repeatedly robbed, and came close to death from thirst and starvation. He eventually reached the Niger and mapped part of its course, before being forced to turn back. He had long been given up for dead by the time he returned to the Gambia... more...

  • The Caliph's Houseby Tahir Shah

    Bantam Books 2006; US$ 11.99

    In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun , acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge–and nothing is as easy as it seems…. Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, Tahir Shah dreamed of making a home in that astonishing country. At age thirty-six he got his chance. Investing what money he and his wife, Rachana, had, Tahir packed up his growing family and bought Dar Khalifa, a crumbling ruin of a mansion by the sea in Casablanca... more...

  • Africa on Six Wheelsby Betty Levitov

    University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 17.95

    ?I think I get it,? Betty Levitov?s youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. ?You?ve had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you?ll do just about anything.? The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take thirteen kids from a small midwestern liberal arts college on a three-month trek across Africa. more...