African History

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A landmark work in Egyptology, Atlas of Ancient Egypt...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA masterwork of nature writing and travel literature, Sand Rivers chronicles a 1979 wilderness expedition into the Selous Game Reserve...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work in the history of archaeology, The Tomb of Tutankhamen chronicles one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A landmark work of African history, The Story of Africa chronicles the rich...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work in Egyptology, Atlas of Ancient Egypt presents a comprehensive geographical and cultural survey of one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased spine. Internally sound. "The Black American Writer" is a seminal two-volume...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work in Egyptology, Valley of the Kings chronicles the dramatic history of one of the ancient world's most extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly illustrated work of popular Egyptology, Romer's Egypt: A New Light On The Civilization Of Ancient Egypt presents a...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work in African archaeology and history, Great Zimbabwe presents a rigorous and authoritative examination of one of sub-Saharan...

Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first-and...

The man whom historians know as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa, is a celebrated but hitherto elusive figure. Al-Hasan al-Wazzan was born in Granada, and grew...

Letlapa Mphahlele, an Anti-Apartheid Liberation Army Commander in the APLA, is that rarest of creatures: a military man with a sensitive, seeking soul. In Child of this Soil, he tells...

From the 2023 David Unaipon Award winner comes this powerful, poignant poetry collection that celebrates and reclaims Indigenous voices and language. Writing with a tender love for her Yugambeh language,...

More than 3000 years ago a village was established at Thebes on the west bank of the Nile. Situated amid a barren landscape are housed the workers who created the...

Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...

The book titled Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus by the author Brian Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA gripping work of historical narrative, Livingstone's River: A History of the Zambezi Expedition 1858-1864 chronicles one of...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of mid-twentieth-century fiction rooted in the political and cultural upheaval of post-colonial Africa, The Africans by Naomi Mitchison...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A gripping work of narrative history, Quest: The Story of Stanley and Livingstone...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of nineteenth-century southern Africa, this historical novel chronicles the life and legend of Chaminuka, the...

'A fascinating read beyond the scholarly debate about who won the battle.' Sunday Times The battle of Isandlwana - a great Zulu victory - was one of the worst defeats...

An account of the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egupt to the sea. The book contains an historical narrative which starts in...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark work in hydrology and geography, The Nile presents a comprehensive...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly illustrated work of ethnographic and photographic documentation, Voodoo: Africa's Secret Power presents an immersive and respectful examination of...

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The book titled The Mind of South Africa by the author Allister Sparks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich treasury of ancient mythology and folklore, Egyptian Legends and Stories presents the most celebrated tales from one of the world's...

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Definitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive, personal story....

The main characteristics of ancient Egyptian religion were animism, fetishism and magic. The myriad deities worshipped by the ancient Egyptians fell into three main categories: local gods, the inanimate objects...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsWhimsical, adventurous, and thoroughly entertaining, An Elephant Charging My Chookhouse is a captivating autobiographical memoir by the colorful Australian...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of travel writing and historical biography, Journey to the Source of the Nile chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work in art history and Egyptology, The Art and Architecture of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis omnibus collection brings together four of Wilbur Smith's most celebrated adventure novels, each set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Very good copy. A poignant, evocative exploration of migration, displaced dreams, and personal autonomy, Much Less A...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark work of historical geography and exploration history, The Niger Explored chronicles the dramatic European quest to...