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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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A VOYAGE FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO GIBRALTAR

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African Notebook


by Albert Schweitzer

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

This short book captures the flavor of Schweitzer's early days at Lambarene, Gabon. (CAF41, $19.95)

Cape Town and Region Map

Cape Town and Region Map


by National Geographic

  • MAP

This double-sided map includes Cape Town, Table Mountain National Park and other reserves south to Cape of Good Hope. (SAF161, $11.95)

Changes, A Love Story

Changes, A Love Story


by Ama Ata Aidoo

  • LITERATURE
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 196 PAGES

A novel from the multitalented author and playwright, in which the independent Esi Sekyi confronts traditional values in marriage, love, career and family in contemporary Ghana. (WAF35, $15.95)

The Covenant

The Covenant


by James Michener

  • LITERATURE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 1238 PAGES

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)

God's Bits of Wood

God's Bits of Wood


by Sembene Ousmane | Francis Price

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 245 PAGES

A story of conflict between colonial powers and West African rail workers set in the late 1940s, written by Senegal's foremost novelist and filmmaker. (WAF22, $15.95)

A History of Sub-Saharan Africa

A History of Sub-Saharan Africa


by Robert O. Collins | James M. Burns

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

A clear, brief survey of the history and development of Africa, aimed at undergraduates and interested readers, organized thematically. With chapters on climate and geography, the rise of states and empires, the slave trade within Africa and beyond to the Americas, the European conquest, and Africa in the 20th century. (AFR174, $31.99)

Kaffir Boy, The True Story a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Kaffir Boy, The True Story a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa


by Mark Mathabane

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

The affecting memoir of a young South African athlete under Apartheid. Mathabane escaped the fate of many poor, black youth of the time through a tennis scholarship to an American university. (SAF158, $15.95)

Life & Times of Michael K

Life & Times of Michael K


by J.M. Coetzee

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 184 PAGES

Coetzee sets this short, hallucinatory novel, the powerful tale of a troubled boy, in South Africa in the midst of civil war. (SAF17, $14.00)

A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier


by Ishmael Beah

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 229 PAGES

This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war, goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. (WAF130, $12.00)

Rough Guide Music West African Gold

Rough Guide Music West African Gold


by Rough Guide World Music

  • MUSIC
  • 2006
  • AUDIO CD

Subtitled "The Big Beat of West Africa, Joyous Sounds from a Golden Era, this authoritative compilation showcases the music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, including bands such as Bembeya Jazz, the music of Salif Keita and Dexter Johnson & the International Band and Orchestra Baobab. (WAF100, $14.95)

Sahara


by Michael Palin

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

In this endearing romp, the peripatetic Palin crosses the Sahara, depicting the desert's diverse cultures and rich history with characteristic wit. (NAF63, $16.95)

Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart


by Chinua Achebe

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 209 PAGES

The 50th anniversary edition of Achebe's celebrated novel of the young village leader Okonkwo, set during in 19th-century Nigeria during the drama and disruption of colonialism. (WAF56, $11.95)

Wanderings in West Africa

Wanderings in West Africa


by Richard Francis Burton

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 624 PAGES

This account, originally published in 1861, results from a three-year stint in the British Foreign office in Fernando Po, an island off the coast of West Africa. It's a valuable first-hand account of short trips around the West African coast. (WAF12, $19.95)

 

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