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Bradt Guide Malawi  •  Philip Briggs
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES
This authoritative, practical travel guide gives a personal, detailed overview of Malawi, its history, culture and natural history. Includes a chapter on Lake Malawi, along with information on travel, health and safety. With photographs and maps. (SAF108, $25.99)		   Bradt Guide Malawi
Tribes of the Great Rift Valley  •  Elizabeth Gilbert
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 272 PAGES
A photojournalist based in East Africa since 1991, Gilbert (Broken Spears) turns her attention on the traditional peoples of Eritrea, the Ethiopian highlands, and plains of Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi in this collection of striking black-and-white photographs. She includes Maasai and Samburu warriors, the Mursi with their jutting lip-plates, the guinea-fowl-painted faces of the Karo, the bull jumpers of the Hamar, and the honey seekers of the forests, the Batwa, among many other groups. (EAF180, $75.00)		   Tribes of the Great Rift Valley
The Wildlife of Southern Africa, A Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of the Region  •  Vincent Carruthers  •  Kenneth Newman
FIELD GUIDE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES • BEST SELLER
This handsome field guide includes the birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, fish and plants of Southern Africa, all in one compact volume. With 1,200 illustrations by a range of experts. (SAF59, $29.95)		   The Wildlife of Southern Africa, A Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of the Region
Malawi and Mozambique Map  •  ITMB
MAP
A full color map for travelers at a scale of 1:900,000. Two Sides. 39x27 inches. (SAF120, $12.95)		   Malawi and Mozambique Map



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Spectrum Guide to Malawi  •  Camerapix   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illusrtated guide for the traveler. (SAF109, $23.95)
 		  
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