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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'...
Great Global Bucket List
Author: Robin Esrock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 During his remarkable journey to over 100 countries on seven continents, Esrock uncovered unique adventures, fascinating histories, cultural spectacles,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
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Author: Nelson Mandela Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here...
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...
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
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...
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...
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is...
Out of Africa
Author: Isak Dinesen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the...
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo
Author: Michela Wrong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Joyous ... a book that makes other journalists weep with envy' The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent,...
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...
Congo
Author: David van Reybrouck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 Hailed as 'a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel' (NRC Handelsblad), David van Reybrouck's rich and...
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...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
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...
A Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela's Prison Archive
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Operation Mayhem
Author: Steve Heaney, MC Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES 'Read this account...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
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...
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...
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...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors...
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...
Operation Certain Death
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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...
The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
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: Aidan, 1965- Hartley Format:...
Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion
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Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal
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