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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 Uganda

by Philip Briggs

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 512 PAGES

This informative, compact guide provides an excellent overview of Uganda's history, culture and natural history. With photographs, maps and travel information. (UGD07, $27.99)

Mountain Gorillas

by Gene Eckhart

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES

Featuring 200 intimate color photographs, this up-to-date, captivating portrait reveals the gorillas of Bwindi National Forest and Virunga Volcanoes, their biology, status and hope. (UGD17, $37.95)

The Impenetrable Forest

by Thor Hanson

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 286 PAGES

Hanson recounts his time in the peace corps in Uganda and his work to establish a gorilla trekking program in the Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest, home to not just half of the world's mountain gorillas but also chimpanzees, colobus monkeys, elephants, giant forest hogs and rare forest birds. (UGD10, $24.95)

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)

 

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Rwanda/Burundi Map

by ITMB

• 2007
• MAP

A detailed, folded map of Rwanda and Burundi. (CAF27, $12.95)

Uganda Map

by ITMB

• 2010
• MAP

A detailed physical map (scale 1:800,000) of Uganda, featuring city and national park insets, also covering part of Rwanda. (UGD01, $11.95)

Bradt Guide Rwanda

by Janice Booth | Philip Briggs

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

A practical, detailed travel guide to Rwanda in the British series, with a focus on nature (especially gorillas), history and culture. (CAF25, $26.99)

Karamoja, Uganda's Land of Warrior Nomads

by David Pluth | Sylvester Onyang | Jeremy O'Kasick

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2007
• HARD COVER
• 276 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Evocative stories by Jeremy O'Kasick and Sylvester Onyang, paired with David Pluth's gorgeous photos, capture the culture, history and daily life of Uganda's warrior nomads. (UGD18, $75.00)

The Scramble for Africa

by Thomas Pakenham

• HISTORY
• 1992
• PAPER
• 738 PAGES

Absorbing and meticulously researched, this in-depth history of the Victorian land grab in Africa includes excellent portraits of the egomaniacal personalities who overran the continent. (AFR26, $23.99)

The Shadow of the Sun

by Ryszard Kapuscinski | Klara Glowczewska

• HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 325 PAGES

A collection of intelligent, wide-ranging essays on Africa by the veteran author and war correspondent. He addresses important themes with insight, including the devastating impact of AIDS and recent political disasters in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Rwanda. (AFR88, $16.00)

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Stories From Rwanda

by Philip Gourevitch

• HISTORY
• 1999
• PAPER
• 355 PAGES

The gut-wrenching story of Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, looking backward from the horrific genocide of 1994 to deep-seated historical causes (and Western inaction). Gourevitch offers both an insightful chronicle and extraordinary stories in this award-winning report. (CAF26, $16.00)

Out of America, A Black Man Confronts Africa

by Keith B. Richburg

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 258 PAGES

A tough, provocative account by a journalist who was based in Nairobi from 1991-1994 and covered murder, war and coups in Liberia, Rwanda and Somalia. (AFR134, $14.95)

Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes

by Pamela S. Turner

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An illustrated overview of the work of Dr. Felicia Nutter and the Rwanda's Mountain Gorilla Project, geared for grades five to eight. With excellent color photographs throughout. (UGD14, $8.95)

Gorillas in the Mist

by Dian Fossey

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2000
• PAPER
• 326 PAGES

Fossey's highly personal, detailed account of the ecology and behavior of the mountain gorilla of Virunga based on her 13 years among "the greatest of the great apes." (UGD05, $15.95)

Gorillas, Natural History & Conservation

by Kelly Stewart

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2003
• PAPER
• 72 PAGES
• OUT OF PRINT

An illustrated overview of the natural history and ecology of the gorilla. (CAF35, $17.95)

In the Kingdom of Gorillas, Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land

by Bill Weber | Amy Vedder

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

A gripping account of conservation, ecology and politics in Rwanda's Virunga Mountains by the husband-and-wife team who worked with Diane Fossey in the 1970s. (UGD11, $23.99)

Mountain Gorilla

by Adrian Warren

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2004
• DVD

This remarkable documentary, filmed in the Parc des Volcans in Rwanda and originally produced for IMAX, follows a day in the life of a group of mountain gorillas. 39 minutes. (EAF142, $14.98)

The Myth of Wild Africa

by Jonathan Adams | Thomas McShane

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 1996
• PAPER
• 290 PAGES

The authors, associated with the World Wildlife Fund, explode the romantic fallacy of an untouched continent where animals roam freely in sanctuaries. It's a no-holds-barred critique of old-style conservation in Africa. (AFR15, $29.95)

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 East Africa

by Terry Stevenson | John Fanshawe

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 602 PAGES

Compact and comprehensive, this guide to 1,388 species of birds in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi features 286 excellent color plates, range maps and notes on habitats and conservation. A veteran tour leader, co-author Stevenson lives in Kenya. (EAF92, $39.50)

Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals

by Jonathan Kingdon

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

A convenient compact edition of Kingdon's gloriously illustrated Field Guide to African Mammals. With abbreviated information on identification, distribution, ecology and conservation status and the same 480 outstanding color illustrations and maps as its bigger cousin. (EAF128, $24.95)

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)

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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