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I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

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'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSONAn astonishing search for a missing person, the...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...
Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Aminatta Forna Format: Paperback...
Beyond Mombasa

Beyond Mombasa

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Frank Coates Format: Paperback...
In Praise of Savagery

In Praise of Savagery

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Author: Warwick Cairns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One man's journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man,...
Foreign Native: An African Journey

Foreign Native: An African Journey

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Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Anna Maria Falconbridge: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the Years 1791-1792-1793

Anna Maria Falconbridge: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the Years 1791-1792-1793

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Author: Christopher Fyfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages, consisting of fourteen letters to a friend about her experiences, is the...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

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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...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

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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...
Invisible Man

Invisible Man

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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...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

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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...
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

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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...
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)

Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)

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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...
In the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Country

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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...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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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...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years

Europe: The First 100 Million Years

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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...
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

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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...
Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

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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...
The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky

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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...
Out of Africa

Out of Africa

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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...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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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...
Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, The Beloved Country

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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...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

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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...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

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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...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

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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...