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Elephant Song

Elephant Song

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Author: Wilbur SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWilbur Smith's "Elephant Song" is a gripping adventure novel that transports readers to the heart of Africa....
African Nights

African Nights

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Continuing the book "I Dreamed of Africa", this volume is written in episodes and covers Kuki's life over the last ten to 12 years. She refers glancingly to the deaths...
Foreign Native: An African Journey

Foreign Native: An African Journey

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From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, Johnson has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir...
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

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Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught...
Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa

Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa

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This book proposes a thematic treatment of the subject. Following an historical survey of the achievements and scope of the explorers, the ensuing chapters deal with exploration under a series...
The Commodore (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 17)

The Commodore (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 17)

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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. This is the seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded:...
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

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An essential work outlining the origin and ongoing reality of global racism, from Britain's leading authority on Black Studies. The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
Cairo Museum

Cairo Museum

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Into the House of the Ancestors

Into the House of the Ancestors

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In Praise of Savagery

In Praise of Savagery

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America Declares Independence

America Declares Independence

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The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE.

The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE.

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Author: Richard Fidler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established...
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

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They Went to Bush

They Went to Bush

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Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

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Through My African Eyes (SIGNED)

Through My African Eyes (SIGNED)

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Africa on the Tightrope

Africa on the Tightrope

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Kakuli (SIGNED)

Kakuli (SIGNED)

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Realm of the Evening Star

Realm of the Evening Star

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Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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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...
Forgotten War: new edition

Forgotten War: new edition

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Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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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...
Mandela: A Critical Life

Mandela: A Critical Life

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The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

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The World Goes Pop

The World Goes Pop

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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...