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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History by George Fredrickson Publisher Comments In this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudiah Equiano (Norton Critical Editions) by Olaudah Equiano Publisher Comments It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - 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 havent 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?”... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir Publisher Comments The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Death in Africa by Mark Seal Publisher Comments Wildflower is a compelling work of narrative nonfiction in which the shocking death of a dedicated environmentalist becomes a broader story of a beautiful, breathtaking country in peril. In January 2006, Joan Root, a sixty-nine-year-old naturalist, Oscar-... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide by Mark Ross Publisher Comments Ross is one of the most seasoned and skilled safari guides at work in Africa today, and he writes here about his close-hand encounters with danger and natural beauty in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. 8-page photo insert.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa by Rick Ridgeway Publisher Comments In one of the most acclaimed travel and adventure books of the past year, Rick Ridgeway chronicles his trek from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean, through Kenya's famed Tsavo Park. His tale is, according to The Boston Globe, "a... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle) by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Letter to Daniel :despatches from the heart by Fergal Keane Synopsis This is a collection of Fergal Keane's works, which includes the "Letter to Daniel" and a similar despatch he wrote to his now deceased father. The book also features articles written for "The Spectator", "The Guardian" and "BBC Worldwide" magazine.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love by Jim Wooten Publisher Comments The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cape Herders: A History of the Khoikhoi of Southern Africa by Emile Boonzaier Publisher Comments This remarkable study combines the insights of archeology, history, and anthropology to trace the Khoikhoi from their origins in central Africa to the contemporary politics of the Namaqualand "reserves". It is not a pretty story. Land appropriation, race... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman Publisher Comments Aciman has written a touching and affectionate portrait detailing the lives of his flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Aciman introduces us to the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Mercedes Is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...an Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen Van Bergeijk Publisher Comments “Oh Lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” Janis Joplin A journalists intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. “Look, theres my car,” I say, pointing at my... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Apartheid State in Crisis: Political Transformation of South Africa, 1975-1990 by Robert M Price Publisher Comments Despite the considerable attention paid to South Africa in recent years, this text is unique in providing a comprehensive analysis of South Africa's politics through the 1980's. Robert Price argues that the apparent stability of South Africa's apartheid... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sins of the Fathers: The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1441-1807 by James Pope Hennessy Publisher Comments The author explores the terrible history of the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to its gradual dissolution.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam by Mary Anne Weaver Publisher Comments For centuries Egypt has been a citadel of Islamic learning and thought, and since the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1979, it has been of immense strategic importance to American interests in the Middle East. But Egypt is also a country... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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