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West With the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments First published in 1942, this is the autobiography of a remarkable aviator and racehorse trainer, based largely in Kenya. Reissue.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through the World's Most Dangerous Country by Tim Butcher Publisher Comments A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo -- a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world -- vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist. Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments The Companion Volume to the PBS Television Series Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations. Traveling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $7.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Mandela: A Biography by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments "It provides new perspective and insights into the man and his times. . . . [Meredith] is particularly good in recounting the parallel rise and inevitable clash of white Afrikaner and black African nationalism in this century . ..." --The... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide by M W Daly Publisher Comments Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created what the United Nations has called ‘the world's worst... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Staff Pick "I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Southern Africa: The Hot "Cold War" by Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin Publisher Comments This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book focuses... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.) by William Kamkwamba Publisher Comments William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin Publisher Comments Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournamentandmdash;the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africaandrsquo;s first free election,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history — the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early 1787, twelve... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zulu Rising by Ian Knight Publisher Comments The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody day more than 800 British troops, 500 of their allies, and at least 2,000 Zulus were killed in... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T Kryza Publisher Comments In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers– – and fortune hunters– – than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Frantz Fanon: A Portrait by Alice Cherki Publisher Comments An in-depth and personal account of the influential French psychiatrist and revolutionary writer, Frantz Fanon (1925-"1961), written by one of his few surviving contemporaries.... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How I Found Livingstone (Great Adventures) by Henry Morto Stanley Publisher Comments This volume recounts Henry Stanley's search for David Livingstone, a missionary-explorer lost in Africa during the Victorian era. In 1870, the New York Herald sent journalist Stanley to track down the English missionary. In these pages the great explorer... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book by Nelson Mandela Found Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela's memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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State of Africa a History of 50 Years Of by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments A brilliant, sweeping history of post-colonial Africa, exploring the continent's troubled trajectory from the optimism of the independence era to the seemingly intractable problems it faces today.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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