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Four Guineas: A Journey Through West Africa
$15.00 AUD
Author: Elspeth HuxleyBinding: HardbackPublished: THE REPRINT SOCIETY LONDON, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsFour Guineas: A Journey Through West Africa chronicles an extraordinary expedition across the diverse landscapes...
Married Life In An African Tribe
$60.00 AUD
Author: I. SchaperaBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber Limited, 1940Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsMarried Life In An African Tribe presents a foundational...
A Cure For Serpents: A Doctor In Africa
$30.00 AUD
Author: Alberto Denti Di PirajnoBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA Cure For Serpents: A Doctor In Africa chronicles...
African Majesty: A Record Of Refuge At The Court Of The King Of Bangangté In The French Cameroons
$30.00 AUD
Author: F. Clement C. EgertonBinding: HardbackPublished: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAfrican Majesty presents...
Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse
$100.00 AUD
Author: Wycliffe KatoBinding: HardbackPublished: Quartet Books, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping memoir, Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse, chronicles a harrowing personal journey through one of Africa's...
Africa's Wild Dogs: A survival story
$60.00 AUD
There are roughly 6,000 wild dogs left in Africa yet they have cast such a spell on top wildlife photographer and naturalist Jocelin Kagan that she is determined to help...
Medieval Cairo and the Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun A Historical guide
$50.00 AUD
Author: Russell, Dorothea:Binding: HardbackPublished: London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markings-
Mandela: The Authorised Biography
Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Long after...
Tefuga
$50.00 AUD
Author: Peter DickinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Pantheon Books, New York, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping narrative presents a world steeped in intrigue, where every turn of the page...
The Muslim Architecture Of Egypt (Two-Volume Set)
$1,000.00 AUD
Author: K. A. C. Creswell, C.B.E.Binding: HardbackPublished: Hacker Art Books, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: 2 loose maps included....
Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture
The colonial architecture of the 19th century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do...
The Quest for the Secret Nile: Victorian Exploration in Equatorial
The Nile, stretching for a distance of 4,163 miles, is the longest river in the world. The ancient Greeks were obsessed by the provenance of so much water, feeding a...
Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History
Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable - war and humiliation....
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century
A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and...
Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
An ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth...
The Zambezi: A History
The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used...
Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India
From war with the British to the enslavement of Indians, Ivermee uncovers the dark history of France's doomed imperial project in South Asia. This is a powerful new account of...
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led...
The Africans
$40.00 AUD
Author: Robert LaitBinding: HardbackPublished: Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe acclaimed work The Africans by Robert Lait presents a comprehensive...
Taking Stock: Johannesburg Stock Exchange – The First 100 Years (SIGNED)
$200.00 AUD
Author: Margot BryantBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1987Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Number 53 of 100 copies. Slipcase good. A definitive...
The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. George...
David Livingstone: His Triumph Decline And Fall
$20.00 AUD
Author: Cecil NorthcottBinding: HardbackPublished: Lutterworth Pres, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography chronicles the remarkable life of a legendary explorer, tracing his ambitious expeditions across...
Milner: Viscount Milner Of St James's And Cape Town
$35.00 AUD
Author: Terence H. O'BrienBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable London, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the impactful career of Alfred Milner, a pivotal figure in British imperial...
African Saga
$15.00 AUD
Author: Mirella RicciardiBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerAfrican Saga presents a vivid, personal account of life and adventure across the diverse...
Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa
In an extraordinary and engaging account this book traces the paths South Africans have followed from pre-colonial times to the democratic present, providing fascinating personal and historical details, and raising...
Complete Pyramids
For centuries the pyramids have inspired passionate theories about their origins, purpose and method of construction. In this fully work on the major pyramids of Ancient Egypt, the author surveys...
The Private Lives of the Pharaohs
Ancient Egypt, land of the pharaohs, bore witness to the rise and fall of the world's greatest civilization. A combination of evidence ranging from the pyramids and rock-cut tombs to...
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone, Al-Hasan al-Wazzan...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard examines the history of beauty in civilisation. Beginning with the Jericho painted skulls from 10,000...
The Roots Of Heaven
$30.00 AUD
Author: Romain GaryBinding: HardbackPublished: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1958Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe novel The Roots of Heaven presents a...
The Black Joy Project
Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book "A...
Seven Seasons
$35.00 AUD
Author: Peter ForbathBinding: HardbackPublished: Atheneum, NY, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsSeven Seasons chronicles the intricate journey of a protagonist navigating the ebb and flow of life's most...
Negotiation And Social Space: A Gendered Analysis Of Changing Kin And Security Networks In South Asia And Sub-Saharan Africa
$20.00 AUD
Author: Carla Risseeuw, Kamala GaneshBinding: HardbackPublished: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumps to board.The...
Maritime South Africa: A Pictorial History
$25.00 AUD
Author: Brian Ingpen - Robert PabstBinding: HardbackPublished: Jane's, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsMaritime South Africa: A Pictorial History chronicles the rich and vibrant seafaring heritage...
A New Earth: An Experiment In Colonialism
$30.00 AUD
Author: Elspeth HuxleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1960Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Clean text....
The Mummy, The
The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature,...
Maya and the Return of the Godlings
In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from...
The Rainbow People of God: South Africa's Victory Over Apartheid
Through a collection of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's speeches, letters, sermons and off-the-cuff remarks, this book sketches the story of South Africa from 1976, when apartheid oppression was at its peak,...
Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles
Endurance, Determination and Grit- The first ever man to run the length of Africa shares his inspirational story 10,000 miles. 16 countries. 352 days. Hardest Geezer, Russ Cook, is the...
Circling Africa
$50.00 AUD
Author: Isabel Anderson, Litt.D. (Mrs. Larz Anderson)Binding: HardbackPublished: Marshall Jones Company, 1929Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Signed by the...
YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD, IN EUROPE, ASIA AND AUSTRALIA. In A Series of Letters from Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, The Holy Land, The Crimea and Its Battle-Grounds, England, Melbourne, Sydney, etc., etc.
$150.00 AUD
Author: George Francis TrainBinding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1857Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Damaged green...
Sea Safari: British India S.N.Co. African Ships & Services
$20.00 AUD
Author: Peter C. KohlerBinding: HardbackPublished: PM Heaton Publishing, 1995Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical account, Sea Safari: British India S.N.Co. African Ships & Services, chronicles the...
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences Of Slavery And Emancipation
$40.00 AUD
Author: Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: New York-Washington, New Press-Library of Congress, 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRemembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal...
The Nuclear Age: Ad 1950-1990
$15.00 AUD
Author: The Editors Of Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: TIME-LIFE BOOKS, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical account, The Nuclear Age, chronicles the...
Imagining Egypt: A Living Portrait of the Time of the Pharoahs
$20.00 AUD
The glory of ancient Egypt comes alive as never before in this colourful, information-packed book featuring new and detailed recreations of ancient pyramids and temples, plus the history, rituals, language,...