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AfricaFossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
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...
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Author: Sally Hayden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY 'Journalism of the most urgent kind'...
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 This book comes at a critical time. Thirty years ago, Africa was home to a million elephants, today the...
Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...
African Animal Tales: Laughing Giraffe
Author: Mwenye Hadithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 In the days long ago, Giraffe was the noisiest animal on the Great African Plain. He shouted a lot...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling
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...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.
Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
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...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition
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...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:
Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the People of the Desert
Author: Nicholas Jubber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star...
Rice: A Global History
Author: Renee Marton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 This is a detailed history of rice, from its origin as a staple food in Asian and West African countries to...
Corn: A Global History
Author: Michael Owen Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones interweaves food history, folklore, history, and popular culture to create a vibrant...
Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
Author: Robert Harms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 In January 1885, the powers of Europe gathered in Berlin to set ground rules for dividing Africa and its lucrative natural...
Things Fall Apart
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...
The World Goes Pop
Author: Jessica Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The World Goes Pop explores the contemporaneous engagements with a spirit of pop throughout the globe, concentrating not only...
Heart of Darkness
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...
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Author: Michela Wrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps...
Nelson Mandela
Author: Izzi Howell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Find out about the life of Nelson Mandela and his life as an activist against apartheid in South Africa. The book...
Forward: My Life With and Without Boney M.
Author: Marcia Barrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Coming to London aged thirteen from desperate poverty in Jamaica; pregnant at fifteen after being abused by a family...
Foreign Native: An African Journey
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...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
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...
Out of Africa
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...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years
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...
Southern African Plectranthus
Author: Ernst Van Jaarsveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The indigenous Plectranthus from the Southern forests and savannahs are among the gems of South African flora. They are also...
Human Origins: 7 Million Years and Counting
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and...
Cry, The Beloved Country
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...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
Green Hills of Africa
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country...
African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History
Author: Tracey Baptiste Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Every year, American schoolchildren celebrate Black History Month. They study almost exclusively American stories, which are not only rooted in struggle...
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
Author: Waris Dirie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention...
Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration
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Exile and the Kingdom: Stories
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...
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages)
Author: Tim Butcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind A compulsively readable...
Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak
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Talk Of The Devil
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The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
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Diamonds, Gold, and War
Author: Martin Meredith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of...
City of Blood Revisited
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Pyramids, Temples and Tombs of Ancient Egypt
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The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society Since 1800
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Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya
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Africa First!: Igniting a Growth Revolution
Author: Jakkie Cilliers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 392 Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth...
The River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration And Explotation Of The World's Most Dramatic River
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Ife: In The History Of West African Sculpture
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