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Congo, The Bradt Travel Guide

by Sean Rorison

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

A practical guide in the popular Bradt series, noted for publishing travel guides to remote and little-visited destinations. (WAF125, $27.99)

No Mercy, A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

by Redmond O'Hanlon

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1998
• PAPER
• 462 PAGES

A trek deep into the Congo with Redmond O'Hanlon, the eccentric, courageous, always-entertaining modern adventurer. (CAF01, $15.95)

Brazzaville Charms, Magic and Rebellion in the Republic of Congo

by Cassie Knight

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2007
• HARD COVER
• 240 PAGES

Knight writes with great sympathy and hope of the Congolese people and their challenges in this unsentimental account of her work in the country. (CAF49, $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)

Congo Map

by IGN

• MAP

A map of Brazzaville and the Congo (1:1,000,000.), which also shows portions of surrounding Gabon, Cameroon and ex-Zaire. (WAF04, $17.95)

 

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Africa Map, Central and South, Madagascar 746

by Michelin Travel Publications

• 2007
• MAP

This fine folded map covers the continent south of Gabon, Congo, Uganda and Kenya at a scale of 1:4,000,000. (AFR36, $14.95)

Congo Democratic Republic (Zaire) Map

by Cartographia

• MAP

This shaded relief map of the Democrtatc Republic of Congo (1:3.3 M), Rwanda and Burundi includes an inset map of Kinshasa. (AFR60, $12.00)

Africa

by Phyllis Martin | Patrick O'Meara

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1995
• PAPER
• 400 PAGES

African history and prehistory, popular culture, art and economics -- it's all here in the most popular introductory text for undergraduate African studies courses in North America. With maps, photographs and drawings. (AFR07, $26.00)

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

by Richard Dowden

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 592 PAGES

Africa editor of The Independent and The Economist, Richard Dowden draws on decades of experience in this multi-faceted, vivid portrait of contemporary Africa -- an Africa that, Dowden effectively argues, can only be developed by its own people. (AFR242, $19.95)

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

by Jason Stearns

• HISTORY
• 2012
• PAPER
• 380 PAGES

Stearns, who in 2008 led a special UN investigation regarding violence in the region, reports on the unimaginable violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1996. (CAF56, $16.99)

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

by Michela Wrong

• HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 368 PAGES

This captivating book chronicles the rise and fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the man who ruled Zaire for over 30 years through incompetence, violence and decadence. (CAF32, $14.99)

King Leopold's Ghost, A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild

• HISTORY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

An enthralling narrative of the 19th-century colonization of the Belgian Congo, written by an award-winning journalist. The focus of the book is Belgian King Leopold, who oversaw the colonization. (CAF08, $16.95)

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)

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)

Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape

by Ann Hugon

• EXPLORATION
• 1993
• PAPER
• 173 PAGES
• OUT OF PRINT

This jewel of a book chronicles the 19th-century exploration of Africa with hundreds of contemporary paintings and prints, brief chapters on the expeditions, and a very useful chronology. Livingstone, Burton and others are featured in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $15.95)

Into Africa, The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

by Martin Dugard

• EXPLORATION
• 2004
• PAPER
• 340 PAGES

A nicely paced tale of the Scottish explorer and Stanley's headline-grabbing efforts to locate him. Dugard has done his homework well, drawing on a wide variety of sources to paint a lively and nuanced portrait of the two men. (AFR130, $15.95)

Through the Dark Continent, Volume 1

by Henry M. Stanley

• EXPLORATION
• 1988
• PAPER
• 400 PAGES

A reprint of the original accounts of Henry Morton Stanley in Africa. (CAF06, $24.95)

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)

Blood River, Retracing Stanley's Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

by Tim Butcher

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

Correspondent for the Telegraph, Butcher retraces Stanley's 3,000-mile journey down the Congo in this harrowing, utterly absorbing and compassionate tale of hard travel through "the most daunting, backward country on earth." (AFR228, $16.00)

Bonobo Handshake

by Vanessa Woods

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 278 PAGES

Woods documents her work with her now husband Brian Hare at Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary outside Kinshasa in this candid, down-to-earth memoir. Winner of the 2011 Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book. (CAF55, $16.00)

Chimpanzee Travels, On and Off the Road in Africa

by Dale Peterson

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2003
• PAPER
• 279 PAGES

Peterson's enjoyable tales of travels across Africa captures the thrill and adventure of primate research from Tanzania to Gabon. (AFR276, $19.95)

East Along the Equator, A Journey Up the Congo and into Zaire

by Helen Winternitz

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1987
• PAPER
• 274 PAGES

An account of travels and politics in Zaire. (CAF28, $14.00)

Facing the Congo, A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness

by Jeffrey Taylor

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2000
• PAPER
• 260 PAGES

In this richly oberved travelogue Taylor, a journalist based in Moscow, recounts his adventures on the Congo in the footsteps of Stanley. (CAF10, $16.00)

I Married Adventure, The Lives of Osa and Martin Johnson

by Osa Johnson

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1997
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

Sweetly told, homespun and engrossing, Johnson's 1940 memoir chronicles her marriage to explorer and wildlife cinematographer Martin Johnson -- their life on a houseboat in Borneo, their encounters with cannibals, their exploits with wild animals in Kenya and their filming expeditions in the Congo. Osa Johnson also established the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in her hometown of Chanute, Kansas. (PAC110, $19.95)

A Bend in the River

by V.S. Naipaul

• LITERATURE
• 1989
• PAPER

The tale of a Indian merchant who moves from the East African coast to a village on the Congo. (AFR133, $15.00)

Heart of Darkness, with Congo Diary

by Joseph Conrad

• LITERATURE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 136 PAGES

One of the century's most important works, this short story tells of the harrowing journey Marlow takes into the Belgian congo. (AFR46, $9.00)

Pandora in the Congo

by Albert Sanchez Pinol

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 441 PAGES

In this wry sendup of tales discovery and darkest Africa ala Joseph Conrad, Albert Sanchez Pinol mixes adventure, invention and historical incident into the kind of thoroughly enjoyable, pulpy chronicle that would have appeared in a turn-of-the-century magazine. (CAF44, $15.95)

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 546 PAGES

Kingsolver sends her naive missionaries into the Belgian Congo in this best-selling novel. (CAF02, $16.99)

Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

by Kate Jackson

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

In this action-packed memoir of life in the field, Jackson writes with matter-of-fact good humor of her adventures in search of reptiles and amphibians (naturally, many are venomous) in the forested swampland of the northern Congo. (CAF40, $17.95)

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 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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