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No man's land :a personal journey into Africa by John Heminway Publisher Comments One of America's most distinguished travel writers and the PBS-TV host of hisown program presents a fascinating look at the world of white Africans today.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa (Eastern African Studies) by Henri Medard Publisher Comments Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery, and the line between enslaved and nonslave labor was fine. This book challenges the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler Publisher Comments Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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First Footsteps in East Africa : Or, an Exploration of Harar (87 Edition) by Richard F. Burton Publisher Comments One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurers firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the 19th Century (Eastern African Studies) by Richard Reid Publisher Comments Buganda was one of the most favoured of East Africa's inter-lacustrine kingdoms. Blessed with fertile and well-watered soil, capable of supporting a relatively dense population, it became a major regional power by the mid-19th century. North America... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar by Lisa L. Gezon Publisher Comments In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $25.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar (Globalization and the Environment) by Lisa L. Gezon Synopsis Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. Her ethnographic study of Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern Madagascar weaves together an analysis of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town by Lesley A. Sharp Publisher Comments This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The possessed and the dispossessed :spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town by Lesley A Sharp Publisher Comments This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why theyre relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Language of the Land by James Stephenson Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-two, James Stephenson arranged to spend a year living among the Hadzabe, the last hunters and gatherers still living a traditional life in Africa. He wanted to live their life, hunting what they hunted, eating what they ate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa by Peter H Beard Publisher Comments From adventurer, explorer, photographer, writer, pied piper Peter Beard--eleven irresistible tales, told to his daughter in his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya, about life, about living, about Africa. <BR>He writes of the East African hills... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa by Amy Stambach Publisher Comments An ethnographic study of a school and community in East Africa focusing on the role school plays in the development of the children's identity and relationships to their parents and community, as well as in the development of the region.... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedom by a hair's breadth :Tsimihety in Madagascar by Peter J Wilson Synopsis How a group of people in Madagascar resisted oppression and maintained their political and cultural freedom... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty (96 Edition) by Allen Isaacman Publisher Comments Portuguese officials forced nearly a million African peasants to grow cotton in colonial Mozambique under a regime of coercion, brutality, and terror. The colonial state sought to control almost every aspect of peasant life: growers were told not only... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey to the Source of the Nile by Christopher Ondaatje Publisher Comments One hundred and forty years after Speke's visionary prediction that Lake Victoria would prove to be the source of the Nile, I had come to Africa to see for myself. I arrived laden with a great store of knowledge about the Nile - all the lore and learning... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey to the source of the Nile by Christophe Ondaatje List Price $39.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Journey To the Source of the Nile by Christopher Ondaatje Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Wars without End: The Political Economy of a Precolonial African State by S P Reyna Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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