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Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt Publisher Comments Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoked in public, and scandalized Genevan society. Already multilingual (French, German... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Marsh Lions: The Story of an African Pride by Brian Jackman Publisher Comments The Marsh Lions tells the story of a pride of lions in Kenyas world-famous Masai Mara game reserve. For five years, Brian Jackman and Jonathan Scott followed the Marsh pride and their progeny, recording the daily drama of life and death on the... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent When Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Beryl Markham is also the author of The Splendid Outcast: The African Stories of Beryl Markham. Growing up in East... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. Paul Theroux by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti Publisher Comments Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh’s bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco by Suzanna Clarke Publisher Comments The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan by Edward Hoagland Publisher Comments Open this book and enter into a richly detailed landscape and an exotic society. Follow Hoagland's travels, from equatorial mountain forests to the Sahara desert; from small Sudanese towns in the south and west to short stays in the capital, Khartoum... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari by Betty Levitov Publisher Comments < div> & #8220; I think I get it, & #8221; Betty Levitov& #8217; s youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. & #8220; You& #8217; ve had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you& #8217... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron Publisher Comments In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana -the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene by Tim Butcher Publisher Comments Of all the anarchic and war-torn African nations, none is more forbidding than Liberia, the land that nurtured child soldiers, the violent trade in "blood diamonds," even ritual murder. Graham Greene, in search of extreme adventure, ventured through its... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood by Carolyn Slaughter Publisher Comments What happened to me affected all of us — my mother, my father, my sisters, and me: we all fell apart under the horror of it, and we all tried to pretend that there was no horror. Before the Knife is an unforgettable story — a transcendent... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann Publisher Comments This page-turning tale puts an African spin on "Not Without My Daughter" when a woman abandons her business, family, and own country to follow a Masai warrior. 8-page color photo insert.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Zanzibar Chest by Aiden Hartley Publisher Comments Hartley, a frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of his own family's 150-year-colonial legacy in Africa, and delivers a beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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South From the Limpopo by Dervla Murphy Publisher Comments Dervla Murphy has been recording her travel experiences-treks through (among other places) India, Transylvania, and several countries in Africa-for well over thirty years. In South from the Limpopo, she continues her writings on the African continent... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold by Michael Benanav Publisher Comments Benanav became one of the few Westerners to ever join the Caravan of White Gold. Following his amused guide, Benanav lived for weeks among the camel drivers, marching 18 hours a day for nearly a thousand miles through sandstorms and searing heat to the... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as an emerging master of travel writing, Tayler penetrates one of the most forbidding regions on Earth. Journeying along routes little altered since the Middle Ages, he uses his linguistic and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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