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1. Bill Bryson's African Diary
by Bill Bryson
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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2. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon
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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3. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King
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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4. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
by Peter Allison
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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5. The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
by Tahir Shah
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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6. Kilimanjaro: The Trekking Guide to Africa's Highest Mountain
by Henry Stedman
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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7. One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
by Binyavanga Wainaina
In this vivid and compelling debut memoir, acclaimed Kenyan Caine Prize winner Wainaina takes readers through his school days, his mother's religious ... More
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8. Wildlife of East Africa
by Martin B Withers, David Hosking
Those looking for a concise, informative, visually breathtaking yet affordable East African safari need look no further. Featuring full-color photos ... More
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9. The Harmless People
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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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10. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by Sarah Erdman
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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11. The Soccer War
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
List of all editionsKapuscinski 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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12. King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
by Peggielene Bartels, Eleanor Herman
List of all editions"King Peggy" is the charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village ... More
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13. The Lost World of the Kalahari
by Laurens Van der Post
List of all editionsThirty 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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15. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
by Theodore Roosevelt, IV
List of all editionsPresident 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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16. The Tree Where Man Was Born
by Peter Matthiessen
List of all editionsThis 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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17. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
by Paul Theroux
List of all editionsIn 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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18. My African Journey
by Sir Winston S Churchill
List of all editionsOriginally published in 1908, this book describes the story of Churchill's trip to East Africa in 1907 when he was Under-Secretary of State for the ... More
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19. Wilder Shores of Love
by Lesley Blanch
List of all editions"There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star" says Lesley Blanch. She writes about four such women in The Wilder Shores ... More
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20. Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
by Alexandra Fuller
List of all editionsWhen Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as ... More
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21. Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
by Keith B Richburg
List of all editionsIn this potentially explosive and controversial memoir, black American journalist Keith Richburg sets out to look for hope amid the chaos that is ... More
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22. The Village of Waiting
by George Packer
List of all editionsA former Peace Corps volunteer and writer for Dissent, The Nation, and Sequoia gives a stunning, highly personal account of West African village life ... More
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23. A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa
by Steve Kemper
List of all editionsA true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements.
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24. The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
by Rupert Isaacson
List of all editionsBrought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, ... More
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25. The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, a Search for Family
by Joe Mozingo
List of all editionsA prize-winning journalist's quest to uncover the hidden history of his remarkable American family, part black and part whiteNall descended from an ... More
