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The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is ... More

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In his first new travel book in eight years, the endearingly irascible Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, ... More

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While there have been numerous historical adventure narratives published, this is the first major work to take place in the greatest desert of all. ... More

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Going on safari requires preparation - and no book leaves a traveler better prepared than this one. Including a wildlife guide and checklist, trip ... More

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Like all the veterans of the war, K has blood on his hands. Driven by K's memories, Fuller and K decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most ... More

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Invited by CARE International, the author of "In a Sunburned Country" now visits Kenya and observes the many contrasts of Kenyan life, from the ... More

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By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to ... More

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Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. "In Morocco" is ... More

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A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: only food runs! Allison presents the guides-eye view of living in the ... More

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The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, ... More

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Thirty years ago Laurens van der Post led an expedition across the Kalahari Desert in search of some last remnant of the pure aboriginal Bushmen of ... More

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President Roosevelt's African safari in 1909, which was undertaken for the Smithsonian Museum, took about one year. During the course of the safari, ... More

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This volume gives an illustrated account of Peter Matthiessen's travels in East Africa from the Sudan, through Uganda and Kenya to Tanzania. He ... More

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Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing ... More

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The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still ... More

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Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe ... More

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At 19,341ft Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain. Yet with no mountaineering skills necessary to reach the summit, even non-climbers can ... More

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The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to ... More

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Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community--a portrait of a resilient African ... More

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The author of Sands of Silence presents the long-awaited sequel to his classic Death in the Silent Places: spine-crawling sagas of four legendary ... More

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This work challenges all the standard approaches to the saga of African history, from the dawn of prehistory to the modern resurgent Africa of today.

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"Among the Believers" is V.S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the ... More

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"Libyan Sands" is unmistakably the work of an Englishman, a modest, machine- and desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led ... More

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Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed his ... More

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An anthropologist's account of the life of the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert by the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF DOGS.

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