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Bradt Guide Zanzibar
David Else Sarah Chanter
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 342 PAGES
COMING IN JULY
A personal, detailed guide to Zanzibar, its history, culture, attractions and natural history. With color photographs, maps and excellent travel information.
(EAF33, $21.95)
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
Emily Ruete
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 1994 PAPER 298 PAGES
Born Princess Salme in the Sultan's court on Zanzibar, the author wrote this book in the 1800s as a tribute to the island for her children. It is rich in details of a long-lost way of life, recalling the time when the sultans reigned on Zanzibar. In the last chapter she tells of her visit home after 19 years in Germany. Originally published in 1907.
(EAF44, $25.95)
The White Nile
Alan Moorehead
EXPLORATION 2000 PAPER 431 PAGES
A lively history of the Victorian search for the source of the Nile including the extraordinary tales of Richard Burton and John Speke, not to mention the famous meeting of Livingstone and Stanley. A classic, originally published in 1960. With vivid descriptions of Zanzibar, the last days of Khartoum and the building of the Suez Canal.
(EGY79, $14.95)
Zanzibar Map
Harms IC Verlag
MAP
A colorful traveler's map to Zanzibar at a scale of 1:100,000.
(EAF114, $15.95)
Bradt Safari Guide Northern Tanzania with Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar
Philip Briggs
GUIDEBOOK
BEST SELLER
NEW
A compact, practical overview of the history, wildlife and attractions of northern Tanzania, including the Serengeti, Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Olduvai, Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar. With maps, town plans and lots of good travel information.
(EAF143, $22.95)
Cadogan Guide Tanzania & Zanzibar
Annabel Skinner
GUIDEBOOK
This Cadogan guide strikes a good balance between up-to-date practical information and background on history, culture and nature.
(EAF158, $21.95)
Rough Guide Zanzibar
Jens Finke
GUIDEBOOK
This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview.
(EAF170, $17.99)
Say it in Swahili
Sharifa Zawawi
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A palm-size pocket guide to common Swahili phrases and expressions for travelers, divided by topic and featuring a useful index. With 1,700 entries.
(EAF46, $5.95)
Arab Seafaring
George F. Hourani
John Carswell
HISTORY
An expanded edition of the classic authoritative history of Arab sea trade in the Indian Ocean from its earliest origins through trade with China and East Africa in Middle Ages.
(ARB47, $22.95)
North of South, An African Journey
Shiva Naipaul
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
A sharp portrait of Africa, circa 1979. A brilliant and provocative observer, Naipaul meditates on the various peoples he encounters in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The best, most insightful thing we've read about race relations in Africa.
(EAF28, $16.00)
The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
Aidan Hartley
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A meditative, personal elegy to colonialism in Africa by an East-African born British journalist. As Africa correspondent for Reuters in the 1990s, Hartley covered Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo.
(EAF119, $16.00)
Black Mischief
Evelyn Waugh
LITERATURE
Waugh's devilish third novel, a send up of British colonial Africa and home-grown potentates on the fictional island of Anzania (which is based on Zanzibar). Originally written in 1932.
(AFR20, $13.95)
Desertion
Abdulrazak Gurnah
LITERATURE
Set in Zanzibar, this novel of a troubled love affair spans sixty years and paints a vivid portrait of turn-of-the-century colonial Africa.
(EAF138, $13.95)
The Books of Secrets
M.G. Vassanjii
LITERATURE
Intrigue, history and politics along East Africa's Swahili Coast. The many machinations of this prize-winning novel revolve around the discovery of a 1913 diary of a British colonial administrator in Dar es Salaam.
(EAF65, $15.00)
The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean
Paddy Ryan
Peter Atkinson
NATURAL HISTORY
The best-selling, take-along guide to coral reefs, coral reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific. With 200 color photographs.
(DIV18, $19.95)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands
Ian Sinclair
Olivier Langrand
FIELD GUIDE
The most spectacular or commonly encountered brids of the western Indian Ocean.
(MAD46, $12.95)
Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, Field Guide Edition
Dale Zimmerman
Donald Turner
David Pearson
FIELD GUIDE
This comprehensive field guide, ideal for the Serengeti, features 124 stunning color plates.
(FG39, $35.00)
Fishwatcher's Field Guide Indian Ocean
Idaz Greenberg
FIELD GUIDE
A double-sided card illustrating 70 fishes of Seychelles, Maldives and neighboring islands.
(FG17, $7.50)
Marine Invertebrates Indian Ocean and the Central Pacific
Idaz Greenberg
FIELD GUIDE
This double-sided plastic card shows 50 of the most commonly encountered marine invertebrates of the Indian Ocean in full-color illustrations, convenient for snorkeling trips.
(DIV15, $7.50)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife
Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE
A portable guide to the landforms, wild areas, mammals, birds, reptiles and insects of Africa, featuring contributions by experts and almost 600 color photographs.
(AFR25, $23.95)
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