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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Author: Sally Hayden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY 'Journalism of the most urgent kind'...
African Animal Tales: Laughing Giraffe
Author: Mwenye Hadithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 In the days long ago, Giraffe was the noisiest animal on the Great African Plain. He shouted a lot...
Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.
Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling
Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people Grace...
The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the People of the Desert
Author: Nicholas Jubber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:
Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
Rice: A Global History
Author: Renee Marton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 This is a detailed history of rice, from its origin as a staple food in Asian and West African countries to...
Corn: A Global History
Author: Michael Owen Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones interweaves food history, folklore, history, and popular culture to create a vibrant...
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics...
Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellison's superb portrait of a generation of black Americans, Invisible...
The World Goes Pop
Author: Jessica Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The World Goes Pop explores the contemporaneous engagements with a spirit of pop throughout the globe, concentrating not only...
Nelson Mandela
Author: Izzi Howell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Find out about the life of Nelson Mandela and his life as an activist against apartheid in South Africa. The book...
Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the Penguin Classics edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is edited...
Foreign Native: An African Journey
Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...
Southern African Plectranthus
Author: Ernst Van Jaarsveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The indigenous Plectranthus from the Southern forests and savannahs are among the gems of South African flora. They are also...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Accompanying the release of his new book Life- Selected Writings, this new format of Europe presents one of Tim...
Roots
Author: Alex Haley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins- a powerful memoir, a...
Human Origins: 7 Million Years and Counting
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and...
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
Cry, The Beloved Country
Author: Alan Paton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
Author: Waris Dirie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention...
Green Hills of Africa
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country...
African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History
Author: Tracey Baptiste Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Every year, American schoolchildren celebrate Black History Month. They study almost exclusively American stories, which are not only rooted in struggle...
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
Author: Edward Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Superbly entertaining.' - Financial Times 'Jaw-dropping.' - Sunday Times 'Fascinating.' - Guardian 'Gripping.' - The Times 'Terrific . . . A...
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time
Author: Jonathan Kingdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found...
Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak
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The Sheltering Sky
Author: Paul Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they...
Talk Of The Devil
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Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Fergus Fleming Format: Hardback...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own...
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages)
Author: Tim Butcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind A compulsively readable...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
Author: Lawrence James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has...
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
Author: Edward Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Superbly entertaining.' - Financial Times 'Jaw-dropping.' - Sunday Times 'Fascinating.' - Guardian 'Gripping.' - The Times 'Terrific . . . A...
Pax Britannica
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as...
Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
Author: Annick Cojean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of...