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The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa

The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa more books like this

by Rick Ridgeway

In this work, writer, explorer and adventurer Rick Ridgeway offers an account of his journey, on foot for a month, from the summit of Mount Kilamanjaro, through the plains of Tsavo, to the sea, providing a ground-level view of East Africa as it is today and how it once was before the incursion of European civilization. Ridgeway examines the ...

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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe more books like this

by Jane Goodall

In this sequel to her best-selling IN THE SHADOW OF MAN, Jane Goodall advances the story, completing her 30-year study of a community of chimpanzees in Tanzania. As involving as a novel, THROUGH A WINDOW is a chronicle of war, murder, mother love, brutal deaths, and the joy of living.

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Among the Elephants more books like this

by Iain Douglas-Hamilton

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In the Shadow of Man

In the Shadow of Man more books like this

by Jane Goodall

The animal behaviorist Jane Goodall recounts her six-month-long experience studying chimpanzee populations in the forests of the Gombe National Park in Tanzania when she was only 26 years old and relatively new to the field--and her succeeding 10 years following up her initial work with chimps she had come to know as friends. This seminal book- ...

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Serengeti : natural order on the African plain

Serengeti : natural order on the African plain more books like this

by Mitsuaki Iwago

Photographs show each season on the Serengeti Plain of Eastern Africa and focus on migrations, predators, and the natural life cycle.

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Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania

Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania more books like this

by Dale A. Zimmerman, D. F. Turner, David J. Pearson

Kenya has an ornithological species list of over 1300, reserves in which to see the birds, and organized tours throughout the country. This guide to seeing birds in Kenya and Northern Tanzania covers every species to have occurred in the regions, and illustrates them all. It covers the essentials of identification and offers information on all the ...

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Sand Rivers more books like this

by Peter Matthiessen

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Trade Wind more books like this

by M M Kaye

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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man

Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man more books like this

by Dale Peterson

Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplicated them. Peterson details not only how Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates, but how she helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior.

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My Rows and Piles of Coins

My Rows and Piles of Coins more books like this

by Tololwa M Mollel, E B Lewis (Illustrator)

A Tanzanian boy saves his coins to buy a bicycle so that he can help his parents carry goods to market, but then he discovers that in spite of all he has saved, he still does not have enough money.

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North of South: An African Journey

North of South: An African Journey more books like this

by Shiva Naipaul

On a trip to Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia in the 1970s, the author set out to discover the meaning of such concepts as liberation, revolution, and socialism to the ordinary citizen.

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The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours

The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours more books like this

by Jane Goodall

The well-known scientist shares her adventures, observations, and discoveries of chimpanzees and their behavior; and discusses the need to protect the endangered animals and their vanishing habitats.

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Great Sky Woman

Great Sky Woman more books like this

by Steven Barnes

An acclaimed author of science fiction and alternate history takes readers to the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro and into the realm of primitive humans, who lived, hunted, celebrated, and died side by side with roaming herds of wild animals.

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Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings more books like this

by Virginia Morell

The author has created a group portrait that was written with the family's cooperation, yet is not authorized. She maintains that by the late 1950s, the Leakey marriage had deteriorated into a business partnership as a result of Louis's extramarital affairs with his young proteges, Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey. As a result, a bitter professional ...

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My Life with the Chimpanzees more books like this

by Jane Goodall

The story of Jane Goodall's first 28 years of life in the jungle observing its wildlife, with an emphasis on the intelligent and personable chimpanzees whose champion she has been for many years.

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The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior, more books like this

by Jane Goodall

In Jane Goodall's classic study of primate behavior, she provides fascinating information about everything from feeding habits and social structure to the individual eccentricities of some of the chimps she has known.

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Innocent killers more books like this

by 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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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar more books like this

by Emily Ruete

Emily Ruete was born in 1840 as Princess Sayyida of Zanzibar. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this memoir offers a portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life, not only in the palace, but in the city and plantations as well.

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Rehema's Journey: A Visit in Tanzania more books like this

by Barbara A Margolies

Rehema, a nine-year-old girl who lives in the mountains of Tanzania, accompanies her father to Arusha City and visits the Ngorongoro Crater.

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Paradise more books like this

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

An African boy comes of age in precolonial East Africa. Sold into slavery by his father, Yusuf is thrown into a multi-ethnic world of war and violence--and the trials of adolescence.

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Through a Window more books like this

by Jane Goodall

In this sequel to her best-selling IN THE SHADOW OF MAN, Jane Goodall advances the story, completing her 30-year study of a community of chimpanzees in Tanzania. As involving as a novel, THROUGH A WINDOW is a chronicle of war, murder, mother love, brutal deaths, and the joy of living.

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The Last of the Maasai more books like this

by Mohamed Amin

This exquisitely beautiful series of books portrays the cultures, landscapes, fauna, flora and history of an individual country with over 150 stunning photographs and well-written and knowledgeable text. To nineteenth-century Europeans, they were the "noblest savages, " an elite corps of painted and feathered warriors, strangely aristocratic in ...

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Maasai. more books like this

by Carol Beckwith

"" The author recounts ancient Maasai legends and songs, and powerfully describes the vivid ceremonies that mark the passages in Maasai life....Everyday tribal life and the ceremonial high points are photographed with a clarity and eye for drama that make Maasai a breathtaking experience"."

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Zanzibar, Its History & Its People more books like this

by William H. Ingrams

First published in 1931, this account covers both the history and ethnography of Zanzibar.

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Lonely Planet Tanzania more books like this

by Mary Fitzpatrick

Includes a 16 page National Parks and Wildlife section. Sustainable travel options highlighted throughout, including community-owned businesses.

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