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Africa
• Phyllis Martin
• Patrick O'Meara
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1995 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
African history and prehistory, popular culture, art and economics with dozens of maps, photographs and drawings. We especially liked the chapter on the contemporary map of Africa. It's all here. Pick and choose those areas that interest you. It's the most popular introductory text for undergraduate African studies courses in North America -- refreshingly free of cant and completely revised in 1995 to reflect changes in African politics.
(AFR07, $26.00) |
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Africa
• Michael Lewis
• John Reader
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 320 PAGES
• COMING IN
An informative survey of the geography, culture and wildlife of Africa featuring 175 color photographs and accompanying text by John Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent). Organized geographically, it's the companion volume to an eight-hour television series by PBS and National Geographic.
(AFR111, $50.00) |
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Africa Map, Central and South, Madagascar 746
• Michelin Travel Publications
2007 •
MAP
A fine folded map of the central and southern regions of the continent, covering the continent south of Gabon, Congo, Uganda and Kenya at a scale of 1:4,000,000. This map is very useful for road travel. One Side. 40x57 inches.
(AFR36, $14.95) |
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Africa's Vanishing Wildlife
• Chris Stuart
NATURAL HISTORY •
1996 •
HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES
Profiling wildlife found all over the continent, this sixth book by the prolific husband-and-wife team features outstanding color photography, great maps and a well considered analysis of prospects for the future of individual species.
(AFR43, $45.00) |
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African Predators
• M.G.L. Mills
• Gus Mills
• Martin Harvey
NATURAL HISTORY •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 160 PAGES
A natural history of the giant cats and other predators of Africa, covering evolution, behavior and conservation, and complemented by full-color photographs.
(AFR114, $39.95) |
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African Wildlife
• James Kavanaugh
FIELD GUIDE •
1999 •
PLASTIC CARD
A laminated foldout guide illustrating almost 150 species of African animals. This pocket guide is designed for quick reference in the field.
(AFR109, $5.95) |
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The Behavior Guide to Africa's Mammals
• Richard Estes
NATURAL HISTORY •
1992 •
PAPER
• 611 PAGES
A detailed overview of the ecology and behavior of African mammals with range maps, line drawings and extensive bibliography. It's a more technical, detailed version of The Safari Companion by the same author.
(AFR54, $39.95) |
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Botswana, the Bradt Safari Guide
• Chris McIntyre
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 518 PAGES
Covering the history, culture and wildlife of Botswana in absorbing detail, this informative, personal guide focuses on the Okavango, Chobe, the Kalahari and other popular destinations.
(BOT18, $26.99) |
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Bradt Guide Sudan
• Paul Clammer
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
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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Cats of Africa
• Anthony Hall-Martin
FIELD GUIDE •
1998 •
HARD COVER
• 152 PAGES
A species-by-species guide to Africa's wild cats, gorgeously illustrated by Paul Bosman. With range maps, conservation status and descriptions.
(BST24, $49.95) |
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Cultural Atlas of Africa
• Jocelyn Murray
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1998 •
HARD COVER
• 240 PAGES
• COMING IN
This book is 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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The Deserts of Africa
• Michael Martin
NATURAL HISTORY •
2000 •
HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
• COMING IN
Geographer and photographer Martin traveled throughout the Sahara, Namibia, Kalahari and Rift Valley for this engaging book of portraits. In addition to the handsome color photographs and illustrations, he provides a good portrait of the geography, culture and wildlife of each region. With 148 full-color photographs and maps.
(AFR87, $50.00) |
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Elephantoms, Tracking the Elephant
• Lyall Watson
NATURAL HISTORY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 261 PAGES
An evocative account of elephants, the natural history of South Africa, and growing up in the bush. Watson, a biologist with a well-developed sense of wonder who now lives in Ireland, looks back at his own childhood in South Africa, interweaving personal history, myth, symbol and lore of the elephant with good information on the ecology and conservation of these great beasts.
(SAF129, $14.95) |
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The Eye of the Elephant, An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
• Mark Owens
• Delia Owens
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1993 •
PAPER
• 305 PAGES
Further adventures from Mark and Delia Owens, this time from the Luangwa River Valley in northern Zambia. They set up camp in the wilderness among the elephants, but are again drawn into an ugly struggle with the local people. Including 32 pages of black-and-white photos.
(ZMB04, $18.95) |
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The Full Cupboard of Life
• Alexander McCall Smith
MYSTERY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 198 PAGES
The fifth episode in the ongoing adventures of Mma Ramotswe (still engaged to be married), her assistant Mma Makutsi (who is also deputy manager of the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors Garage) and various clients for the only ladies detective agency in a fully realized Botswana. The Kalahari Typing School for Men (introduced in the last installment) is still going strong.
(BOT19, $14.00) |
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
• Alexander McCall Smith
LITERATURE •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
McCall Smith brings together a collection of often hilarious, often bizarre folktales which he heard as a child growing up in Zimbabwe. In addition to the tales from his previous collection, Children of Wax, the best-selling author includes seven new tales from Botswana. In an interesting twist on a writer's creation, the title character of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency provides an introduction.
(AFR141, $22.00) |
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Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
• Alan Barnard
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1992 •
PAPER
• 379 PAGES
Subtitled "A Comparative Ethnography of Khoisan Peoples, " this scholarly book looks at the environment and its influence on the cultural and social organization among San ("Bushmen"), Khokhoi ("Hottentot") and Damara of the Kalahari and surrounding areas. It looks at the culture of some of the best-known and most mythologized African peoples. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 85.
(SAF67, $50.00) |
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Journeys With Flies
• Edwin Wilmsen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 168 PAGES
An impressionist account of field work and travels among the Zhu, Mbanduru and Tswana people of the Kalahari culled from the author's journals. It's a short, personal book that complements Wilmsen's published field work.
(SAF69, $27.50) |
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men
• Alexander McCall Smith
MYSTERY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 191 PAGES
This, the fourth in the enormously pleasurable series starring Botswana's only Lady Detective, finds our hero, Precious Ramotswe, grappling with a dead hoopoe in the garden, a competing Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency and the aspirations of her assistant (to open the aforementioned typing school). She's also moved her business into her fiance's garage. If it weren't for all these complications, she might have already been wed.
(BOT17, $14.00) |
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Land Filled With Flies, A Political Economy of the Kalahari
• Edwin Wilmsen
HISTORY •
1990 •
PAPER
• 402 PAGES
A comprehensive, scholarly review of the Zhu people by an anthropologist who worked in the region from 1973 to 1994, this book overturns the romantic myths of the San-speaking hunters and gatherers of Southern Africa living in splendid isolation. Wilmsen has also written an impressionist account of his years in Southern Africa, "Journeys With Flies" (SAF69). It's a detailed, monumental study of the social relations, diet, work and land use by the San societies of Botswana and Namibia, an especially important work given the long-held western notions of the "Bushman."
(SAF68, $37.50) |
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Larger Mammals of Africa
• Pierre Dandelot
FIELD GUIDE •
1993 •
HARD COVER
• 287 PAGES
Featuring handsome color plates of all the larger mammals of Africa (including Madagascar), this compact field guide also includes good information on the range, distribution and abundance of each species.
(AFR61, $35.00) |
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Morality for Beautiful Girls
• Alexander McCall Smith
MYSTERY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 225 PAGES
The continuing and delightful adventures of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, this time the enterprising Mma Ramotswe expands her business to take in the world of car repair and a beauty pageant. This is the third book in the series. Next on deck is The Kalahari Typing School for Men. We can hardly wait.
(BOT12, $14.95) |
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Mortals, A Novel
• Norman Rush
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 736 PAGES
A dazzling novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Mating, set among American expatriates in 1990s Botswana. Rush pulls off the trick of making the sprawling book (note the page count!) both personally and politically charged.
(SAF141, $15.95) |
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North of South, An African Journey
• Shiva Naipaul
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1979 •
PAPER
• 349 PAGES
• FAVORITE
This is a great book -- engaging and unafraid of controversy. North of South is a sharp portrait of Africa, sensitive to issues black, white and brown -- and occasionally quite humorous. It's the best, most insightful thing we've read about Africa. A brilliant and provocative observer, Naipaul meditates on the travelers, government officials, shopkeepers and European exiles he encounters on a six-month-long journey through Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Fittingly, the book opens at the outdoor cafe of the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi.
(EAF28, $16.00) |
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The Peopling of Africa, A Geographic Interpretation
• James L. Newman
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1997 •
PAPER
• 252 PAGES
An anthropological study of Africa, which considers, among other factors, genetics, religion, language and technology. With 50 maps.
(AFR140, $26.00) |
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Picturing Bushmen, The Denver African Expedition of 1925
• Robert James Gordon
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1997 •
PAPER
• 325 PAGES
Serious-minded, wonderfully illustrated and informative, this book documents the 1925 expedition to Etosha in search of the "Bushman." Apart from the extraordinary images of the Heikum people presented in this social anthropology, the book shows how westerners have traditionally romanticized the exotic. Fascinating.
(NMB05, $24.95) |
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The Remarkable Baobab
• Thomas Pakenham
NATURAL HISTORY •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 144 PAGES
It was inevitable that Pakenham, an historian of Africa with a penchant for the world's most striking and bizarre trees, would discover the baobab. In this followup to Remarkable Trees of the World and Meetings with Remarkable Trees, he focuses on the tremendous, twisted boabab trees of Africa, Madagascar and Australia. Of the world's eight species, six are found in Madagascar. With 60 large-format color photographs.
(NAT71, $19.95) |
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Shaka Zulu
• William Faure
HISTORY •
2002 •
DVD
• 416 PAGES
Made as a mini-series 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. Starring Henry Cele as Shaka, this critically acclaimed epic miniseries details the Zulu nation's struggle against European colonialism, his innovations in warfare, and the legendary warrior's ultimate downfall. Set against the spectacular panorama of the Zulu tribal homeland, Shaka Zulu features a first rate cast including Christopher Lee, Dudu Mkhize, Robert Powell and Edward Fox. DVD extras include vintage interviews with cast and crew, galleries of original production art, galleries of original production stills, essay on the history of the Zulu Wars, and more.
(SAF54, $79.95) |
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Southern African Birds, A Photographic Guide
• Ian Sinclair
FIELD GUIDE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
Lightweight and handy for the field, this pocket guide to the 265 most conspicuous birds south of the Zambezi River includes color photographs, brief descriptions and range maps. We also carry Birds of Namibia (NMB17, $15.95).
(SAF14, $15.95) |
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Tears of the Giraffe
• Alexander McCall Smith
MYSTERY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 202 PAGES
The second of the Mma. Ramotswe detective novels, this time her case considerably complicated by romantic difficulties, her quite entertaining assistant and the arrival of unexpected family members.
(BOT11, $14.95) |
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The Washing of the Spears
• Donald R. Morris
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 692 PAGES
Written at Hemingway's suggestion, this sprawling chronicle of the Zulu nation and particularly of the war of 1879, takes places in an "endless land of scattered riches and infinite variety."
(SAF49, $27.95) |
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Watching Wildlife, Southern Africa
• Luke Hunter
NATURAL HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 347 PAGES
A practical guide to the best places in Southern Africa to see wildlife, featuring a 120-page wildlife gallery with color photographs and descriptions of commonly encountered African mammals, birds, amphibians and fish.
(SAF139, $22.99) |
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Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries
• Ornella D'Alessio
• Marco Santini
FOOD •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 324 PAGES
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. The authors, both Italian journalists and wine connoisseurs, provide helpful tips alongside the hundreds of magnificent color photographs.
(EUR191, $35.00) |
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