African History

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...