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1	The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi more books like this by Richard B Lee add to wishlist This classic study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert, described changes that have come, as recently as 1991, to the Kung rituals, beliefs, social control, marriage and kinship. It documents their emerging determination to take hold of their own destiny - despite exploitation of their habitat and relentless ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.97! \| SVS
2	Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone more books like this by Martin Dugard add to wishlist David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer, was a frequent visitor to the African interior during the 19th century, and one of its most exciting and prolific chroniclers. So his disappearance in the late 1860s while questing for the Nile's source created an immediate uproar. The journey to get the scoop of the century fell to Henry David Stanley, ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals; Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates more books like this by Richard D Estes, Daniel Otte (Illustrator), Kathryn S Fuller (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.41! \| first editions \| SVS
4	A History of South Africa: Third Edition more books like this by Leonard L Thompson add to wishlist A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present, focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants. For this third edition, Leonard Thompson adds two new chapters that describe the transfer of power and the ... see all copies from $5.24! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Tree Where Man Was Born more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist This book details Matthiessen's travels in East Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation more books like this by John Carlin add to wishlist Carlin pens this thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Dolphin Song more books like this by Lauren St John add to wishlist In this sequel to "The White Giraffe," Martine is on a school-sponsored sea adventure off the coast of South Africa when she and five of her classmates are thrown overboard. Saved by a pod of dolphins, Martine and the others are then marooned on a deserted island. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Boer War more books like this by Thomas Pakenham add to wishlist The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over 200 million), the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.32! \| first editions
9	Story of an African Farm more books like this by Olive Schreiner add to wishlist Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for boarding school in her early teens, only to return ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Flight of the Falcon more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist He is the rover, the lawless trader. She is the healer, bringing the word of God to the exotic tribes of Africa. Robyn Ballantyne and Mungo St. John will battle with all the fury of two natural enemies. They will love with all the desperation of a woman and a man unable to evade the commands of fate. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $80.20! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Lost World of the Kalahari more books like this by Laurens Van Der Post add to wishlist An account of the author's grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa's remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The harmless people more books like this by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas add to wishlist On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization-with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol-swept over them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Concise History of South Africa more books like this by Professor Robert Ross add to wishlist This book provides a succinct synthesis of South African history from the introduction of agriculture about 1500 years ago up to and including the government of Nelson Mandela. Stressing economic, social, cultural and environmental matters as well as political history, it shows how South Africa has become a single country. On the one hand it lays ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	Las Bellas Hijas de Mufaro: Cuento Popular Africano more books like this by John Steptoe add to wishlist In this picture-book retelling of an African folk tale, Mufaro's daughters, Nyasha and Manyara, are both beautiful, but he doesn't see that they have very different personalities--Nyasha is kind and gentle while Manyara is mean and spiteful. When the King announces that he is seeking a bride, Mufaro sends him both of his daughters, in the belief ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $2.22! \| SVS
15 view cover	In Search of Remarkable Trees: On Safari in Southern Africa more books like this by Thomas Pakenham add to wishlist The famed author of "The Boer War "and "Remarkable Trees of the World "presents some of the oldest, most unusual, and most impressive trees on the planet as he travels across Southern Africa and Madagascar. Thomas Pakenham, no stranger to Africa with his award-winning books "The Boer War "and "The Scramble for Africa," nor to remarkable trees ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $8.46! \| SVS
16 view cover	Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa more books like this by Alan H Channing add to wishlist see all copies from $5.58! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
17 view cover	Martha Quest more books like this by Doris Lessing add to wishlist The first in Lessings' Children of Violence series, MARTHA QUEST introduces Martha at age 15, chafing at the restraints of her bourgeois home and domineering mother. As soon as she is able, Martha leaves her rural home for the city, where she joins a political left-wing group, has her first sexual experience, and meets and marries her husband. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Psycholegal Assessment in South Africa more books like this by Sean Kaliski (Editor) add to wishlist The practical objective of this book is to formalise and improve the standard of psycholegal assessment in South Africa, and thereby set in motion a process whereby the field of forensic psychology/psychiatry may be recognised as a specialised registered profession in South Africa. The book provides practitioners such as psychologists, ... see all copies from $8.87! new only from $98.44! \| first editions
19 view cover	Mandela: A Critical Life more books like this by Tom Lodge add to wishlist Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly revealing biography examines these questions in ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa more books like this by Chris Johns, Peter Godwin, Nelson Mandela (Foreword by) add to wishlist FOREWORD BY NELSON MANDELA: Johns and Godwin photographed and interviewed Nelson Mandela during the summer of 2000. Mandela, in a remarkable tribute to their unique work, will contribute a Foreword to this book. UNPRECEDENTED PHOTOGRAPHS: Chris Johns spent six years recording Africa's spellbinding wildlife, and diverse peoples. His rare talent and ... see all copies from $7.89! new only from $10.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Magomero: Portrait of an African Village more books like this by Landeg White add to wishlist Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the dual concerns of a Southern African specialist and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power more books like this by Dr. Robert I Rotberg add to wishlist Cecil Rhodes was the dominant figure in 19th-century Southern Africa. It was his acquisition of diamond mines in South Africa that led to the formation of De Beer Ltd, the huge diamond corporation which he led, and he also dominated the gold mines of the region. With his wealth secured, he went on to dominate the political scene, first as premier ... see all copies from $3.85! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Four Gated City more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist The fifth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "Landlocked". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Rhodes more books like this by Antony Thomas add to wishlist A new biography of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th-century adventurer, imperialist, politician, and philanthropist. see all copies from $4.54! new only from $49.95! \| first editions
25 view cover	Proper Marriage more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist One of Doris Lessing's most important novels -- here beautifully repackaged This is the second volume in Doris Lessing's renowned quartet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in Africa to an imagined post-nuclear Britain. A Proper Marriage sees twenty-something Martha beginning to realise that her marriage has been a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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