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Enrich your travels with reading! Here's a hand-picked list prepared for your journey in conjunction with the book experts at Longitude.

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Bradt Guide Sao Tome and Principe

by Kathleen Becker

GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
192 PAGES

A practical guide in the British series to the West African island nation. (CAF31, $25.99)

African Silences

by Peter Matthiessen

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1992
PAPER
225 PAGES

In this narrative of Equatorial Africa, Matthiessen recounts several trips to The Gambia, Senegal, Zaire and the Congo Basin in search of rhinos, elephants and other endangered wildlife. (WAF36, $13.00)

National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife

by Peter Alden

FIELD GUIDE
1995
PAPER
988 PAGES

This comprehensive photo guide covers 850 birds, mammals and reptiles of Africa. With range maps and a good country-by-country overview of habitats and parks. (AFR25, $24.95)

Gabon Map

by IGN

1994
MAP

A folded, self-cover map of Gabon, with an inset of Libreville, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (CAF24, $16.95)

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Africa

by Michael Lewis | John Reader

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2001
HARD COVER
320 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Published by National Geographic, this informative survey of the geography, culture and wildlife of Africa features 175 color photographs and accompanying text by John Reader. (AFR111, $50.00)

Africa, A Biography of the Continent

by John Reader

HISTORY
1999
PAPER
816 PAGES

With the ease of a practiced journalist, Reader weaves a masterful and lively tale of the continent, from ancient cultures to modern times. Both authoritative and informal, this is a splendid introduction to all of Africa. (AFR49, $18.95)

Cultural Atlas of Africa

by Jocelyn Murray

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
1998
HARD COVER
240 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A handsomely illustrated atlas of African history and culture with 96 outstanding maps, 250 color photographs and excellent essays. (AFR47, $50.00)

Faces of Africa, Thirty Years of Photography

by Carol Beckwith | Angela Fisher

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2009
HARD COVER
360 PAGES

A portfolio of people and places in Africa by the remarkable team of Beckwith and Fisher. Organized thematically, it features 120 stunning color portraits. (AFR138, $16.95)

The Africans

by David Lamb

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
1987
PAPER
371 PAGES

In these 17 well-written essays, news correspondent Lamb ranges throughout Africa, creating an insightful portrait of the land and especially its people. (AFR22, $19.95)

West Africa Before the Colonial Era, A History to 1850

by Basil Davidson

HISTORY
1998
PAPER
257 PAGES

Davidson puts the stories of peoples and empires into context in this lively, scholarly history. With maps, illustrations and a timeline. (WAF07, $60.00)

African Art, An Introduction

by Frank Willett

ART & ARCHITECTURE
2002
PAPER
272 PAGES

A concise, well illustrated overview of the art and culture of Africa, portraying the range of spectacular art produced throughout the ages. (AFR18, $21.95)

Rough Guide West African Music

by Various Artists

MUSIC
2006
AUDIO CD
OUT OF PRINT

A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of West Africa. Artists include Ali Farka Toure, Super Rail Band, Mansour Seck, Orchestra Baobab and more. (WAF95, $14.98)

French Lessons in Africa, Travels with My Briefcase Through French Africa

by Peter Biddlecombe

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2002
PAPER
434 PAGES
CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

A scandalously entertaining and useful introduction to Francophone Africa by the hilarious British writer and inveterate traveler. Organized geographically, he devotes a chapter each to Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Zaire. (WAF68, $17.95)

Tropic Moon

by Georges Simenon

LITERATURE
2005
PAPER

In Simenon's dark tale of degeneracy and corruption in a colonial outpost, a young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon. (CAF34, $12.95)

West African Folktales

by Jack Berry | Richard Spears

ANTHOLOGY
1991
PAPER
229 PAGES

These 123 unembellished tales reflect the rich oral tradition of cultures throughout West Africa, particularly Ghana and Nigeria, where the pioneering Berry did much of his field work. (WAF13, $21.00)

Gabon: The Last Eden

by National Geographic Society

NATURAL HISTORY
2007
DVD

This stunning film documents the work of scientists and rangers in Gabon and the elephants, hippos, buffalo, gorillas and other abundant, diverse wildlife of Central Africa. (CAF37, $19.98)

Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest, How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa

by John F. Oakes

NATURAL HISTORY
1999
PAPER
338 PAGES

A survey of national parks and conservation throughout West Africa, of primary interest to conservationists. Oakes uses West Africa as a case study to argue against the prevailing notion that wildlife is best protected through small-scale community development. (WAF11, $28.95)

The Last Place On Earth

by Mike Fay | Michael Nichols

NATURAL HISTORY
2005
HARD COVER
480 PAGES

A two-volume boxed set, this authoritative, spectacularly photographed book by National Geographic documents Michael Fay's 465-day, 2,000-mile Mega-Transect with photographer Nick Nichols from the Congo highlands to the Atlantic Ocean shore of Gabon. With Nichol's extraordinary color photographs (vol. 1) and a facsimile edition of Fay's diary (vol. 2). (CAF38, $150.00)

The Year of the Gorilla

by George Schaller

NATURAL HISTORY
2010
PAPER
290 PAGES

Schaller's vivid tale of adventures among the gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes of Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda -- a wonderful account of field work under difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances by one of the great wildlife biologists. (UGD03, $25.00)

World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation

by Julian Caldecott

NATURAL HISTORY
2005
HARD COVER
456 PAGES

This handsome, authoritative natural history of bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, published in conjunction with The Great Ape Project, features essays by leading scholars, color photographs and maps. (BST106, $55.00)

Birds of Western Africa

by Nik Borrow | Ron Demey

FIELD GUIDE
2005
PAPER
496 PAGES

A compact field edition of Barrow and Demey's comprehensive handbook, covering nearly 1,300 species from Senegal to Congo and featuring 150 color plates. (WAF76, $45.00)

Birds of Western and Central Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklist

by Ber Van Perlo

FIELD GUIDE
2003
PAPER
384 PAGES

An admirably compact, comprehensive guide to 1,500 species throughout Western and Central Africa featuring 109 color plates. (WAF02, $29.95)

The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals

by Jonathan Kingdon

FIELD GUIDE
1997
PAPER
476 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

This stunningly-illustrated, comprehensive field guide by a leading authority includes Kingdon's 480 exquisite color paintings. (AFR32, $49.50)

The Safari Companion

by Richard Estes

FIELD GUIDE
1999
PAPER
459 PAGES
BEST SELLER

An invaluable encyclopedic guide to Africa's mammals by a noted scientist. Written with the typical safari-goer in mind, this perennial bestseller includes black-and-white drawings, an overview of each group and in-depth information. (AFR06, $30.00)

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