Travels into the Interior of Africa, Paperback - Mungo Park

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...

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Reducere. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced,...

Reducere. Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adve...

DescriptionModern science cannot speak with justifiable authority about more than only a tiny fraction of the Earth's interior. We have, literally,...

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Reducere. The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway's memoir of his safari across the Serengeti--present...

This haunting and bestselling memoir of the author's life - and loss - in Africa has sold 250, 000 copies to date.

This extraordinary, candid account of James Kilgo's African sojourn conveys the untamed beauty of the bush country with the attention of a seasoned...

The definitive reference guide to all of Africa's venomous snakes, written by a team of internationally acclaimed herpetologists.

Reducere. A bold synthesis of the events that have dominated modern Africa in this historic era of nation-building and transformation.About the AuthorDavid B...

Reducere. When Jack Allison joined the Peace Corps in 1967, he never intended to write the number one hit song in Malawi or be described by Newsweek as more ...

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...

From the moment the author arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and r...

Reducere. DescriptionUnbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko. By I...

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A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed ...

Reducere. In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the grea...

Contributor(s): Author: Patrick Wanakuta BarazaWhile Africa is the continent on which human life began, it is also a continent that has been invade...

The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventu...

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

Reveals the amazing story of a largely forgotten explorer and naturalist who forged his way into West Africa and its history. From his early life i...

Reducere. Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association In this provoc...

Reducere. This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The account follows Nuttall...

This account of Burnes' travels up the Indus to Lahore, to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia to spy for the British government in the 18...

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

Stanley undertook his quest with gusto, filing reports that captivated readers and dominated the front page of the New York Herald for months. INTO...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Abdourahman a. WaberiTranslator: David BallTranslator: Nicole BallIn a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedl...

In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes of a visionary, live through hair-raising adventure and personal sorrow, ...

Reducere. DescriptionA PEOPLE Pick - PEOPLE magazine Traveling with--and learning from--the women saints While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew f...

Reducere. Ibn Batt ta was a geographer and traveller who spent decades roaming distant lands; these are his journeys, translated to English by celebrated sch...

Reducere. This historical and comparative ethnography of the Oromo of the Horn of Africa is based on the teachings of the custodians of the sacred knowledge ...

Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 4 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Eastern Africa, from the Sahel to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce FentonForeword by: Graham HancockThe Geographic Origin of Modern Humans: Half a Century after the collapse of the Out...

Reducere. First published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings refl...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncAuthor(s): Peter HandkeNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 217 x 33Cover type: Hardba...

Reducere. While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior--the matriarch lifted her foot and scann...

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Reducere. Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, whic...

Reducere. In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's popu...