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The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to
It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...
Mandela: The Authorised Biography
$12.00 AUD
The author has known Mandela since the 1950s, and has been given complete access to all his personal papers, to Mandela himself, and to his friends and political associates, to...
Iboga: The Visionary Root of African Shamanism
Shows how African shamans have used ibogaine for hundreds of years to communicate with ancestral spirits * Includes an interview with shaman Mallendi, initiation-master of the sacred root * Shows...
From Massacres To Mining: The Colonization Of Aboriginal Australia
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA searing indictment of one of history's most overlooked injustices, From Massacres to Mining: The Colonization of Aboriginal...
Peoples Of The Horn Of Africa: Somali, Afar And Saho
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Reading copy with minimal markings. Map at rear intact. In the vast and ancient landscapes...
Freedom Next Time
The latest hard-hitting investigative book from John Pilger, the bestselling author of Heroes, Hidden Voices and A Secret Country. FULLY UPDATED FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION. John Pilger is one of...
Congo: The Epic History of a People
$12.00 AUD
Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad), David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal...
Every Day: The Story Of Joe Williams
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the smoky jazz clubs of Chicago to the grand stages of international concert halls, Every Day: The...
Cry, The Beloved Country
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePublished in 1948 against the backdrop of a nation on the precipice of institutionalised racial segregation, Cry, The...
Britain And France In The Middle East And North Africa
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of empire and ambition, Britain and France in the Middle East and North Africa chronicles...
The Boer War
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Empire launched what its commanders promised would...
A Bend In The River
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of a newly independent African nation, where the jungle presses against the edges of a...
Five: Containing Five Short Novels; A Home For The Highland Cattle, The Other Woman, Eldorado, The Antheap, Hunger
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most commanding literary voices comes Five, a masterful collection of novellas that...
The Harmless People
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the edge of the Kalahari Desert, where survival demands extraordinary ingenuity and grace, lives one...
The White Nile
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of Victorian adventure, The White Nile chronicles one of history's most dramatic...
Cry Rage!
$55.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCry Rage! is a landmark work of South African protest poetry, a raw and unflinching outcry...
Tales
$250.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Some wear around edges of binding but...
American Negro Slavery
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd paperback ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A - paperback with red card cover, some wear and fading to edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging....
New Nations In A Divided World: The International Relations Of The Afro-Asian States
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: yellowed; minor stain on fep. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Usual shelf-wear. Faded and worn spine. Rubbed edges. At...
The Challenge Of Africa
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - booklet/pamphlet format in fair condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Staple-bound pamphlet, intact with general wear. At the...
Drinkers Of Darkness
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the sweltering isolation of a remote East African outpost, a small...
Politics Of The Developing Nations
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the height of the Cold War, the political futures of newly...
Black Star: A View Of The Life And Times Of Kwame Nkrumah
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in twentieth-century history burned as brightly — or as controversially...
Pharaoh
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: VG Jacket: No dust jacket - cover in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. No stickers or labels present. Pharaoh is a...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani: Egyptian Text,
Complete reproduction of Ani's papyrus, finest ever found. Full hieroglyphic text, interlinear transliteration, word-for-word translation, smooth translation. The sacred wisdom of the priests of ancient Egypt and the experiences of...
The Traitor's Gold (Joe Mason, Book 5)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series At the root of all riches lies evil... Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on...
Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission
Silver Medal winner in Military History Matters 'Book of the Year' Award "Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight " Military History Matters judges' comment Striking where the enemy...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism. But...
Blackbirding: A reckoning with the Australian slave trade
An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...
The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak
The book titled The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak by the author P. J. Vatikiotis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World
Louis Jacobs opened the eyes of paleontologists to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. During five digging seasons...
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91
This is the story of Rimbaud`s `lost years' the years after he turned his back on poetry, and fame and France, for a life of wandering and obscurity in the...
Cairo
Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mukattam, and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of...
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
First time in Modern Classics for Penelope Lively's evocative memoir of her childhood in Egypt. This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood...
Wilfrid Blunt's Egyptian Garden: Fox Hunting in Cairo
In the days of Empire, the British way of life was carried on with a blithe disregard for local peculiarities and this went hand in hand with a sometimes benevolent,...
African Stories: Once Upon a Giraffe
Inspired by traditional animal stories from Africa, find out WHY Giraffe has a long neck. Once upon a time, Giraffe's neck was quite short. Until the hartebeests wouldn't share their...
Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide
Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created...
Another Day of Life
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence....
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A fierce and moving account of the genocide practised by the Spanish colonialists Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World....
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
New to Black Classics from 20th C. (0141181001) 'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction...
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
' Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor ' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times ' Dynamic, original and supremely...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
A brilliantly readable, beautifully illustrated general history of ancient Egypt, from the builders of the first pyramids to Cleopatra. 'A sophisticated and complete account' The Times : Books of the...
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when...
Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an...
A field guide to wild flowers of Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Easter Region
$12.00 AUD
This is a guide to wild flowers in the summer rainfall area, describing over 2100 species from subtropical coastal dunes to mountain peaks, with the focus on KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape,...
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...
A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition
A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present "I did not think it was possible for a...