Travels in West Africa, Paperback - Mary Kingsley

Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However,...

Reducere. Africa has a way of luring you in, Scott Corey writes in the opening lines of Whistling for Hippos. It begins with a flash of dark eyes in the fire...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudo...

The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all ...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

Reducere. Every single person occupies a point in the planet earth. Everyone belongs to a community of persons which starts with one's family and roots. This...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

Reducere. Neil Peart's travel memoir of thoughts, observations, and experiences as he cycles through West Africa, reveals the subtle, yet powerful writing st...

Publisher: Jeppestown PressAuthor(s): Muriel R. TewIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 232 x...

Examines how the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) can achieve its development and stability objectives, improve the livelihood of i...

This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the great...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

This book focuses on cultural practices and policy for sustainable development in West Africa across different artistic disciplines, including perf...

Publisher: RCC Pilotage FoundationAuthor(s): Ed WheelerIllustration(s): 143 coloured illustrations & chartletsNumber of pages: 134Publication date:...

Reducere. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of th...

Reducere. In Neocolonialism in West Africa, author Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, a journalist and political activist in Sierra Leone, demonstrates that imperial powe...

Publisher: TROPZAMAuthor(s): G. C. CookIllustration(s): illustratedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 237 x 165 x 17Cover type: ...

Reducere. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him ...

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s...

Reducere. Hebrewisms of West Africa

This Element closely examines Eden's assembly and framing of these accounts, engaging with issues of material culture, travel writing, new knowledg...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. From the time he wakes up until the time he goes to sleep, Yaya is constantly on the move. Everyone knows Yaya, and everyone calls out to him as he...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Livingstone (1813-1873) was a Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa. Missionary Travels in South Africa is his account of his...

Reducere. DescriptionIbn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of nineteen he set out on his travels that ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval...

Reducere. It's Africa Immersed in West Africa is NOT one of those cookie-cutter guide books. This is the powerful on-the-ground diary of one man's solo journ...

Reducere. This book presents a prototype of leadership that can be applicable to other societies and groups. This work is neither based on the comparison bet...

Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100, 000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlant...

Reducere. The Herero campaign from the perspective of one of the invadersGermany's late development as a modern nation meant it missed the opportunity to col...

Reducere. The author of Saint Everywhere is answering the call from fans for more reports from her quest to learn from some quietly extraordinary women-and a...

Reducere. A PEOPLE Pick - PEOPLE MagazineA SCIBA Award FinalistTraveling with-and learning from-the women saintsWhile visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll...

Reducere. This book provides a fascinating summary of African history over 5000 years, from the Stone Age to the classical Greek and Roman era, through the '...

Park's two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent's interior. A vivid re...

Reducere. Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown...

Reducere. Who was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa's life. We know that he was one of t...