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Africa
• Phyllis Martin
• Patrick O'Meara
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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, $20.95)
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Africa
• Michael Lewis
• John Reader
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An informative survey of the geography, culture and wildlife of Africa featuring 175 color photographs and accompanying text by John Reader; organized geographically.
(AFR111, $50.00)
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African Predators
• M.G.L. Mills
• Gus Mills
• Martin Harvey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A natural history of the giant cats and other predators of Africa.
(AFR114, $39.95)
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African Wildlife
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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Slip this laminated foldout guide in your pocket.
(AFR109, $5.95)
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African Wildlife
• National Geographic
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An overview of wildlife throughout the continent featuring stunning photography.
(SAF52, $19.99)
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The Anatomy of the Zulu Army, From Shaka to Cetshwayo, 1818-1879
• Ian Knight
• HISTORY
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A detailed account of the structure of the Zulu army during the 60 years before they defeated the invading British army at Isandlwana in 1879.
(SAF87, $22.95)
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The Behavior Guide to Africa's Mammals
• Richard Estes
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A detailed overview of the ecology and behavior of African mammals.
(AFR54, $39.95)
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The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives, An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History
• Alan Turner
• Mauricio Anton
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A thoroughly researched guide to modern felines and their ancestors.
(BST50, $26.95)
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Birds of Southern Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklists
• Ber Van Perlo
• FIELD GUIDE
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An admirably compact guide, featuring small illustrations of 1,250 species, brief descriptions and black-and-white range maps.
(SAF79, $29.95)
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The Black Man's Burden, Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State
• Basil Davidson
• HISTORY
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An evocative work that traces the origins of Africa's independence movement, placing the continent's current political instability in a historical perspective.
(AFR92, $15.00)
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Bradt Guide Sudan
• Paul Clammer
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular Bradt series, noted for publishing travel guides to remote and little-visited destinations.
(AFR152, $25.99)
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Burger's Daughter
• Nadine Gordimer
• LITERATURE
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The story of a young, white, South African woman, and her search for identity.
(SAF84, $15.00)
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The Cape Herders
• Emile Boonzaier
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly portrait of the Khokhoi of the western cape of South Africa.
(SAF65, $19.95)
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Cape Town Map
• Globetrotter
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A home-grown map of theCape Town, with a detailed city center on one side, and a local regional map, including the Cape Peninsula, on the other.
(SAF105, $8.95)
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Cats of Africa
• Anthony Hall-Martin
• FIELD GUIDE
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A gorgeously illustrated, species-by-species guide to Africa's wild cats.
(BST24, $49.95)
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A Complicated War, The Harrowing of Mozambique
• William Finnegan
• HISTORY
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An eyewitness historical, political and social account of Mozambique and the civil war that has ravaged the country, organized as a travelogue of sorts -- and centered around the author's own travels and interviews.
(SAF94, $26.95)
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
• Antjie Krog
• Luke Mitchell
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Krog, an Afrikaner journalist who covered the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings for South African radio, writes of the crimes of apartheid with passion and sensitivity.
(SAF100, $16.00)
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The Covenant
• James Michener
• LITERATURE
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Michener's saga of war, adventure, politics and love follows several generations of characters as they give birth to the mighty Zulu nation.
(SAF85, $8.99)
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Cultural Atlas of Africa
• Jocelyn Murray
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A handsomely illustrated atlas of African history and culture with 96 outstanding maps, 250 color photographs and excellent essays.
(AFR47, $50.00)
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Durban Street Plan
• MapLink
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Detailed map of Durban, published in South Africa.
(SAF104, $19.95)
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The End of the Game
• Peter Beard
• Paul Theroux
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Resurrected by the art publisher Taschen and with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Beard's classic work documents the history of explorers, missionaries and big-game hunters in Africa with dozens of paintings and modern and historic photographs.
(AFR09, $39.99)
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Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape
• Ann Hugon
• EXPLORATION
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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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, $12.95)
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A Far Off Place
• Laurens van der Post
• LITERATURE
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The continutation of the tale begun with A Story Like the Wind of Francois Joubert and Xhabbo.
(SAF117, $15.00)
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Fault Lines, Journeys Into the New South Africa
• David Goodman
• Paul Weinberg
• HISTORY
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An engrossing portrait of South Africa after apartheid and how the changing nation continues to confront its troubled past.
(SAF111, $21.95)
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Field Guide to the Birds of Southern Africa
• Ian Sinclair
• Phil Hockey
• Warwick Tarboton
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact, comprehensive field guide to 900 species of birds, with plates, text and range maps integrated.
(SAF12, $35.00)
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Flashman and the Tiger
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI.
(WAF58, $14.95)
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Footprint South Africa Handbook
• Francisca Kellett
• Lizzie Williams
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide to travel in South Africa.
(SAF96, $27.95)
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
• Alexander McCall Smith
• LITERATURE
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McCall Smith brings together folktales, often hilarious or bizarre, which he heard as a child growing up in Zimbabwe.
(AFR141, $22.00)
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Hemingway in Africa, The Last Safari
• Christopher Ondaatje
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this illustrated account of travels in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, Christopher Ondaajte conjures Hemingway and his love for Africa.
(AFR139, $37.50)
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The House Gun
• Nadine Gordimer
• LITERATURE
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From a popular South African Nobel Prize-winner comes the story of a privileged white family and their struggles with their own beliefs. Always perceptive, Gordimer dissects psychological distortions underlying apartheid.
(SAF78, $16.00)
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Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
• Alan Barnard
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly comparative study of San ("Bushmen"), Khokhoi ("Hottentot") and Damara peoples of the Kalahari.
(SAF67, $45.00)
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Illustrated Guide to the Game Parks and Nature Reserves of Southern Africa
• Reader's Digest
• FIELD GUIDE
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A comprehensive guide to 700 parks and reserves in Southern Africa. With excellent maps and a key to common animals of many varieties.
(SAF02, $30.00)
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In the Footsteps of Eve, The Mystery of Human Origins
• Lee R. Berger
• SCIENCE
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Berger challenges the orthodoxy on a critical point of debate in the field of paleoanthropology.
(ATP10, $14.00)
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Journey to the Vanished City, the Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel
• Tudor Parfitt
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The author probes the mystery of the Lemba people of South Africa in this book, which combines history, myth, and a first-person account of his furiously entertaining trip from South Africa to Tanzania.
(SAF92, $14.00)
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July's People
• Nadine Gordimer
• LITERATURE
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A household servant rescues the white family he works for in this political novel set in South Africa.
(SAF95, $14.00)
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The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals
• Jonathan Kingdon
• FIELD GUIDE
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This stunningly-illustrated, comprehensive field guide by a leading authority includes Kingdon's 480 exquisite color paintings.
(AFR32, $49.50)
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Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals
• Jonathan Kingdon
• FIELD GUIDE
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Take it along. An artist and biologist, Kingdon provides both delightful full-color illustrations and informative text for this great guide.
(EAF128, $24.95)
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Larger Mammals of Africa
• Pierre Dandelot
• FIELD GUIDE
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Featuring handsome color plates of all the larger mammals of Africa (including Madagascar)
(AFR61, $35.00)
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Life & Times of Michael K
• J.M. Coetzee
• LITERATURE
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A Booker Prize-winning novel about a troubled boy in South Africa in the midst of a civil war. J.M. Coetzee is also Nobel Prize winner for his body of work, much of which is set in his home country of South Africa.
(SAF17, $14.00)
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Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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This comprehensive, practical guide is a helpful tool for independent travelers.
(AFR44, $26.99)
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Lonely Planet Southern Africa
• Alan Murphy
• GUIDEBOOK
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A hefty practical guide to the nine nations of southern Africa, including Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique and Lesotho. Ideal for independent travelers on a multicountry tour.
(SAF121, $32.99)
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Mandela & de Klerk
• Inge Sargent
• LITERATURE
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A tevision docu-drama starring Sydney Poitier the jailed hero and Michael Caine as de Klerk, filmed on location in South Africa and at Robbin Island.
(SAF51, $9.98)
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Mandela, The Authorized Biography
• Anthony Sampson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A comprehensive biography of Mandela by a prolific British journalist, who had complete access to the great man's unpublished letters and documents.
(SAF118, $20.00)
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My Son's Story
• Nadine Gordimer
• LITERATURE
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A complex story of the effects of apartheid on one black family.
(SAF77, $15.00)
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The Myth of Wild Africa
• Jonathan Adams
• Thomas McShane
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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No Future Without Forgiveness
• Desmond Tutu
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An insightful memoir from 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu, on racial reconciliation in South Africa post-Apartheid.
(SAF97, $15.95)
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None to Accompany Me
• Nadine Gordimer
• LITERATURE
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A portrait of life in South Africa after the collapse of Apartheid. With keen attention to character and racial politics, Nobel Prize-winner Gordimer traces the experiences of two families during this turbulent time.
(SAF76, $16.00)
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Penguin Planet: Their World, Our World
• Kevin Schafer
• NATURAL HISTORY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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A collection of stunning penguin photographs and essays by veteran expedition leader Kevin Schafer, recording his many voyages all around the Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic islands, Galapagos and South Africa, including a memorable section on his favorite place of all, Enderby Island in the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic.
(ANT131, $49.95)
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The Peopling of Africa, A Geographic Interpretation
• James L. Newman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An anthropological study of Africa, which considers, among other factors, genetics, religion, language and technology.
(AFR140, $26.00)
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A Photographic Guide, Southern, Central, and East African Mammals
• Chris Stuart
• Tilde Stuart
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact guide, designed for the field, including almost all of the conspicuous species and a good sampling of the smaller or more secretive animals.
(EAF16, $15.95)
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Plant Life in the World's Mediterranean Climates
• Paul Dallman
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Richly illustrated, clearly written and engaging, this book is an ecological overview of the landscapes, plants and vegetation types found in Mediterranean climates.
(MED21, $35.95)
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The Power of One
• Bryce Courtenay
• LITERATURE
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This riveting novel tells of the coming-of-age of a six-year-old English boy in South Africa during the darkest days of largely pro-Nazi South Africa, based on the author's childhood.
(SAF26, $15.00)
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The Remarkable Baobab
• Thomas Pakenham
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A celebration of the tremendous, twisted baobabs of Africa, Madagascar and Australia. The 60 large-format color photographs show that the Baobab is indeed remarkable.
(NAT71, $19.95)
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Shaka Zulu
• William Faure
• HISTORY
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Made as a 10-part television epic for British audiences by the South African director William Faure, this is the sweeping story of the Zulu nation's rise to power and especially of its warrior-king Shaka Zulu.
(SAF54, $79.95)
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South from the Limpopo, Travels Through South Africa
• Dervla Murphy
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The intrepid Murphy captures the excitement, contradictions and challenges of South Africa on her 6,000-mile journey during the nation's first true elections in 1994.
(SAF102, $16.95)
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Southern African Wildlife, A Visitor's Guide
• Mike Unwin
• FIELD GUIDE
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A popular photographic guide to the mammals, birds, reptiles and habitats south of the Zambezi. With 300 color photographs and illuminating text.
(SAF131, $24.95)
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Southern Night Sky
• Pocket Naturalist
• FIELD GUIDE
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A glow in the dark laminated card showing the most conspicuous stars, constellations and celestial objects of the Southern Hemisphere.
(SCI30, $5.95)
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A Story Like the Wind
• Laurens van der Post
• LITERATURE
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The epic tale set in the Kalahari of the frienship between young Francois Joubert and Xhabbo.
(SAF116, $15.00)
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The Story of an African Farm
• Olive Shreiner
• LITERATURE
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The story of an orphaned heroine in her search for self in colonial South Africa.
(SAF86, $12.95)
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To My Children's Children
• Sindiwe Magona
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Magona's widely acclaimed memoir of the changes she and her Xhosa village endured under apartheid.
(SAF83, $11.95)
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Wild at Heart, Man and Beast in Southern Africa
• Peter Godwin
• Chris Johns
• Nelson Mandela
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This superb collection of 128 full-color photographs tackles conservation, development and tradition in Southern Africa. It's a well-illustrated portrait of the region by National Geographic photographer Chris Johns and veteran journalist Peter Godwin.
(SAF130, $65.00)
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Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries
• Ornella D'Alessio
• Marco Santini
• FOOD
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Part how-to, part guidebook, part picture book, this charming coffee table treat covers sprawling French vineyards as well as lesser-known hidden treasures in Austria and Hungary.
(EUR191, $35.00)
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