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Tree Where Man Was Born
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Peter Matthiessen
This book details Matthiessen's travels in East Africa.
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Man-Eaters of Tsavo
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John Patterson
Tells the story of two man-eating lions who terrorized East Africa and brought to a halt the construction of a new railway line.
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The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals; Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates
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Richard D Estes, Daniel Otte (Illustrator), Kathryn S Fuller (Foreword by)
ildlife-viewing safari, the guide allows even a novice wildlife observer to understand the behavior of nearly one hundred large mammals, from antelopes, hippos and elephants to lions, monkeys and gorillas. 100 illustrations.
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Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiography
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Tepilit Ole Saitoti
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Green Hills of Africa
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's memoir about hunting big game in Africa is also about the appeal of the "primitive" and the author's dissatisfactions with his own society. Based on his safari journal, this is a vibrant portrait of the African landscape.
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An ice-cream war
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William Boyd
A novel about an obscure but decisive moment in World War I, revolving around two English brothers whose love for each other and their country is sorely tested when they fall in love with the same woman. Winner of England's Whitbread Prize and nominated for the Booker.
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Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide
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Mark C Ross
In this memoir, an American safari guide tells of his adventures in East Africa, recalling the thrills, beauties--and dangers--of the land and the ways he guides and educates the tourists who join his safaris. He also reveals what it was like to swept up in the political turmoil in that region in the 1990s--particularly the horror in Rwanda.
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Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
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Muriel L Feelings
A counting book that portrays the life and culture of Swahili-speaking Africa, with a brief text and dramatic illustrations.
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Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
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Dr. Donald Johanson, James Shreeve
Donald Johanson discovered Lucy, the most famous and one of the most complete of hominid remains, in 1974. His controversial interpretation of the remains as representing an ancestor to all subsequent hominid species, including our own, and his bestselling "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind" (1981), established him as one of the most famous living ...
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IBN Battuta in Black Africa
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Said Hamdun (Editor), Noel Q King (Translator)
Abu Abdalla Ibn Battuta (1304-1354) was one of the greatest travelers of pre-modern times. He traveled to Black Africa twice. He reported about the wealthy, multi-cultural trading centers at the African East coast, such as Mombasa and Kilwa, and the warm hospitality he experienced in Mogadishu. He also visited the court of Mansa Musa and ...
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African Game Trails
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Theodore Roosevelt, IV
FOREWORD I SPEAK of Africa and goIden joys the joy of wandering through lonely lands the joy of hunting the mighty and terrible Iords of the wilderness, the cunning, the wary, and the grim. In these greatest of the worlds great hunting-grounds there are mountain peaks whose suns are dazzling under the equatorial sun swamps where the slime oozes ...
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African game trails, an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist
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Theodore Roosevelt
Ex-President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt recalls in his journal of a hunting trip in Africa the many animals he stalked and killed for the Smithsonian institution, and his meetings with East Africans.
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African Slave Trade
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Basil Davidson
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The end of the game
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Peter Hill Beard
A landmark work that dramatically chronicles the changing fortunes of African wildlife, focusing on the widespread destruction of the elephant.
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Portraits in the Wild: Behavior Studies of East African Mammals
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Cynthia Moss
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African History: Text and Readings
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Robert O Collins
This volume covers 3000 years in the history of eastern Africa. It features reports on: the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and Kush; ancient and medieval trade routes; the history of the east coast; the Nilotic slave trade; the appearance of Indian and white settlers; modern times; and more.
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The Nile: The Life Story of a River
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Emil Ludwig
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Different Drums: A Doc 40 Years E
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Michael Wood, David Coulson (Photographer), Prince Charles (Designer)
Dr. Michael Wood, cofounder of Kenya's Flying Doctor Service, brings a beautiful and troubled land into sharp focus in this eloquently written memoir of 40 years in Africa. More than 90 full-color photographs.
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Of Beetles and Angels: A True Story of the American Dream
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Mawi Asgedom, Dave Berger (Editor), Asgedom Mawi
This memoirist survived early childhood in war-torn, poverty-stricken Ethiopia, emigrating at the age of 7 with his family to the suburbs of Chicago with help from World Relief. Here he offers insight on growing up in America as an Ethiopian in a time when the media was barraged with harrowing images of his homeland. Asgedom finally attended ...
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Ibn Batutta in Black Africa
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Ibn Batutta, Ibn, Noel King (Editor)
Abu Abdalla ibn Battuta (1304-1354) was one of the greatest travellers of pre-modern times. This is his report of black Africa, a document of the high culture, pride and independence of black African states in the 14th century. He writes disapprovingly of sexual integration in families.
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Origins Reconsidered
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Richard E Leakey, Roger Lewin
Leakey, a famous paleoanthropologist and author of Origins and Lewin, author of Bones of Contention incorporate ideas from philosophy, anthropology, molecular biology, and linguistics to investigate not only how humans evolved, but how we acquired the qualities of consciousness and humanity. 40 photographs.
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Innocent killers
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Hugo Van Lawick
Goodall's groundbreaking book about wild dogs, jackals, and the spotted hyena was published in the same year (1971) as her influential IN THE SHADOW OF MAN and shares some of its characteristics: close observation, elegant writing, and delightful portraits of the animals as individuals.
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Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa
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Arthur H Neumann
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The Company of Adventurers
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John Boyes, Mike Resnick (Foreword by)
There's never been anyone quite like John Boyes, the most notorious of East Africa's pioneers. This is his true story, his firsthand accounts of exploits on the Dark Continent during the days of the most daring adventurers. There are lots of things you can say about John Boyes: he was a troublemaker. He was an ivory poacher. He was a hunter. He ...
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Into Africa
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Craig Packer
Craig Packer takes us into Africa for a journey of 52 days in the autumn of 1991. But this is more than a tour of magnificent animals in an exotic, faraway place. A field biologist since 1972, Packer began his work studying primates at Gombe and then the lions of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater with his wife and colleague Anne Pusey. Here, ...
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