African History

'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .' Of all Michael Palin's epic...

On saving the world and other triumphant failures... As a child, young Kenyan Jess de Boer knew that one day she would save the world. Leaving behind the comfort of...

The Bedu people, whose name embodies the very idea of nomadism, have lived for centuries in the vast, inhospitable deserts of the Middle East, leading their herds of sheep and...

"Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In "Dark Star Safari", Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and...

This remarkable yearbook by Danielle and Olivier Foellmi, a follow-up to their successful Buddhist Offerings, presents the wise words of a leading personality in African literature for every day of...

'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...

Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose , Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride . In 1959 Barbara Toy, famous for her solo overland travels...

In a not quite mid-life crisis, Jacquie and Sarah - fancying themselves a bit rugged - head off to Africa in search of the deepest, darkest bits they'd seen on...

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...

What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...

'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...