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Vanishing Africa
$50.00 AUD
Author: Mirella RicciardiBinding: HardbackPublished: Williams Collins Sons & Co, London, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerMirella Ricciardi's "Vanishing Africa" is a captivating photographic journey through the diverse landscapes...
Leni Riefenstahl's Africa
$80.00 AUD
Author: Leni RiefenstahlBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins/Harvill, London, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis captivating photography collection presents Leni Riefenstahl's stunning visual chronicle of her decades-long immersion in the Nuba...
Elephant Song
$15.00 AUD
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....
Mary Kingsley
$20.00 AUD
Author: Cecil HowardBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson of London, 1959Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Frayed, dull and faded spine. This biography...
Lords of the Earth: The Entwined Destiny of Wildlife and Humanity
For more than 40 years, Cyril Christo son of the artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude his wife Marie, and his son Lysander have been travelling among the last indigenous peoples...
Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy
In early 1997 Peter Penfold, arrived in Sierra Leone as the British High Commissioner. This fascinating book describes not just his eventful three year tour but the background and subsequent...
Who's Who in the Zulu War 1879, Vol. 2: Colonials and Zulus
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 has a character that inspires and fascinates readers and increasing numbers of visitors to South Africa. The two volume biographical dictionary of the participants is...
The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
$12.00 AUD
After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
With the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist. Kapuscinski has been visiting Africa since...
Deliverance: The inside story of East Timor's fight for freedom
In late 1999 the world watched as a small country became the world's newest nation amid a frenzy of destruction and killing. Now, Deliverance tells the inside story of East...
In the Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia
The 1992 High Court's Mabo decision has provoked much controversy in contemporary Australia. As the ruling has increasingly become the subject of intense debate throughout the community, the implications of...
Winds of Change, 1914-39
$30.00 AUD
Author: Harold MacmillanBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper and Row, New York, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn this compelling work of political history, Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister of the United...
The Trade Makers: Elder Dempster In West Africa 1852-1972
$45.00 AUD
Author: P. N. DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the extensive operations of Elder...
Cairo: The City Victorious
Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia,...
Australia's Boer War
$150.00 AUD
The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but also...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian
'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
