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Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa: Including A Sketch Of Sixteen Years' Residence In The Interior Of Africa, And A Journey From The Cape Of Good Hope To Loanda On The West Coast...
$30.00 AUD
Author: David LivingstoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Classics of Exploration leaflet laid-inThis seminal work, Missionary Travels, chronicles the extraordinary expeditions of a pioneering missionary...
Journal Of The Discovery Of The Source Of The Nile
$30.00 AUD
Author: John Hanning SpekeBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Classics of Exploration leaflet laid-inThis seminal work chronicles the arduous 19th-century expedition into the heart of...
Travel And Adventure In South-East Africa: Being The Narrative Of The Last Eleven Years Spent By The Author On The Zambesi And Its Tributaries; With An Account Of The Colonisation Of Mashunaland...
$40.00 AUD
Author: Frederick Courteney Selous, C.M.Z.S.Binding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsTravel And Adventure In South-East Africa by Selous chronicles a thrilling journey through the untamed landscapes of...
How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, And Discoveries In Central Africa; Including Four Months' Residence With Dr. Livingstone
$40.00 AUD
Author: Henry M. StanleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Classics of Exploration leaflet laid-inHow I Found Livingstone chronicles the harrowing and determined expedition of a...
The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in
On November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the...
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise
The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India...
Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty...
MTINDO: Style Movers Rebranding Africa
In Mtindo , award-winning photographer Daniele Tamagni captures a new young generation of creative minds - so-called "style movers" - who are today on the main scene of Africa. From...
The Writing On The Wall: And Other African Stories
$12.00 AUD
Author: Stuart CloeteBinding: HardbackPublished: COLLINS, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe collection The Writing On The Wall: And Other African Stories presents a compelling array of narratives that...
First Footsteps In East Africa; Or, An Exploration Of Harar (Two-Volume Set)
$55.00 AUD
Author: Captain Sir Richard F. BurtonBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Classics of Exploration leaflet laid-inFirst Footsteps In East Africa chronicles a daring 19th-century expedition...
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
$20.00 AUD
John Darwin's After Tamerlane , a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of massive erudition and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire , he...
Discovering Ancient Egypt
This is a history of Ancient Egypt which looks at the history of the great civilization through the achievements of the travellers, archaeologists and Egyptologists whose discoveries opened the world's...
The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the
Meet the culinarians who are setting the new African table. James Beard Award-winning author Alexander Smalls presents a vibrant library of home cooking recipes and texts contributed by 33 chefs,...
Red Dog
$12.00 AUD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a...
The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt
This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and...
The Azande: History And Political Institutions
$40.00 AUD
Author: E. Evans-PritchardBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work of anthropology, The Azande: History And Political Institutions, meticulously...
Cry, The Beloved Country: A Story Of Comfort In Desolation
$20.00 AUD
Author: Alan PatonBinding: HardbackPublished: JONATHAN CAPE, 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsSet against the breathtaking backdrop of South Africa, Cry, The Beloved...
Four Guineas: A Journey Through West Africa
$15.00 AUD
Author: Elspeth HuxleyBinding: HardbackPublished: THE REPRINT SOCIETY LONDON, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsFour Guineas: A Journey Through West Africa chronicles an extraordinary expedition across the diverse landscapes...
Married Life In An African Tribe
$60.00 AUD
Author: I. SchaperaBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber Limited, 1940Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsMarried Life In An African Tribe presents a foundational...
A Cure For Serpents: A Doctor In Africa
$30.00 AUD
Author: Alberto Denti Di PirajnoBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA Cure For Serpents: A Doctor In Africa chronicles...
African Majesty: A Record Of Refuge At The Court Of The King Of Bangangté In The French Cameroons
$30.00 AUD
Author: F. Clement C. EgertonBinding: HardbackPublished: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAfrican Majesty presents...
Man In Africa: From Cairo To The Cape Of Good Hope
$15.00 AUD
Author: Colin M. TurnbullBinding: HardbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsMan In Africa: From Cairo To The Cape Of Good Hope presents a profound ethnographic journey...
Testament To The Bushmen
$15.00 AUD
Author: Laurens Van Der Post And Jane TaylorBinding: HardbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the rich heritage and profound wisdom of the San...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor. When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse
$100.00 AUD
Author: Wycliffe KatoBinding: HardbackPublished: Quartet Books, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping memoir, Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse, chronicles a harrowing personal journey through one of Africa's...
Divinity And Experience: The Religion Of The Dinka
$40.00 AUD
Author: Godfrey LienhardtBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1976Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Creased pages. Divinity And Experience: The Religion Of The Dinka...
Africa's Wild Dogs: A survival story
$60.00 AUD
There are roughly 6,000 wild dogs left in Africa yet they have cast such a spell on top wildlife photographer and naturalist Jocelin Kagan that she is determined to help...
Medieval Cairo and the Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun A Historical guide
$50.00 AUD
Author: Russell, Dorothea:Binding: HardbackPublished: London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markings-
A Cruise on the Nile: Or the Fabulous Story of Steam Ship Sudan
This sumptuous book invites you to follow the course of the Nile and Egyptian history on board a floating historical monument, the Steam Ship Sudan. At 100 years old, and...
The Egyptian Jukebox
$12.00 AUD
Author: Nick BantockBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking Adult, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis extraordinary work of interactive fiction, The Egyptian Jukebox, presents a captivating...
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
$20.00 AUD
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
The official companion to the Summer 2005 exhibition of the fabulous treasures found in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun provides spectacular full-color photographs of the artifacts, along...
Tefuga
$50.00 AUD
Author: Peter DickinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Pantheon Books, New York, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping narrative presents a world steeped in intrigue, where every turn of the page...
The Muslim Architecture Of Egypt (Two-Volume Set)
$1,000.00 AUD
Author: K. A. C. Creswell, C.B.E.Binding: HardbackPublished: Hacker Art Books, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: 2 loose maps included....
Venture To The Interior
$15.00 AUD
Author: Laurens Van Der PostBinding: HardbackPublished: The Reprint Society, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling travelogue chronicles a remarkable expedition into the remote, untamed landscapes of Africa....
The Quest for the Secret Nile: Victorian Exploration in Equatorial
The Nile, stretching for a distance of 4,163 miles, is the longest river in the world. The ancient Greeks were obsessed by the provenance of so much water, feeding a...
Don Mccullin In Africa
$75.00 AUD
Author: Don MccullinBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape., 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor foxing to page edges.Don McCullin's Don McCullin In Africa presents a compelling visual...
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century
A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and...
Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
An ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth...
The Africans
$40.00 AUD
Author: Robert LaitBinding: HardbackPublished: Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe acclaimed work The Africans by Robert Lait presents a comprehensive...
Taking Stock: Johannesburg Stock Exchange – The First 100 Years (SIGNED)
$200.00 AUD
Author: Margot BryantBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1987Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Number 53 of 100 copies. Slipcase good. A definitive...
David Livingstone: His Triumph Decline And Fall
$20.00 AUD
Author: Cecil NorthcottBinding: HardbackPublished: Lutterworth Pres, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography chronicles the remarkable life of a legendary explorer, tracing his ambitious expeditions across...
Milner: Viscount Milner Of St James's And Cape Town
$35.00 AUD
Author: Terence H. O'BrienBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable London, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the impactful career of Alfred Milner, a pivotal figure in British imperial...
African Saga
$15.00 AUD
Author: Mirella RicciardiBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerAfrican Saga presents a vivid, personal account of life and adventure across the diverse...
With the Flag to Pretoria : A History of the Boer War 1899-1900 (Two-Volume Set)
$100.00 AUD
Author: J. A. Wilson, H. W., HammertonBinding: HardbackPublished: Harmsworth Brothers Ltd, 1900Condition:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards with marks and specks. Shaky binding with boards...
Wildlife Worlds: Africa
This stunning six-book series explores some of Earth's iconic landmarks and habitats, and the plants and animals that live there. AFRICA explores the incredibly diverse range of habitats and wildlife...