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	African Silences  •  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)
	King Leopold's Ghost, A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa  •  Adam Hochschild HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES An enthralling narrative of the 19th-century colonization of the Belgian Congo. The focus of the book, written by an award-winning journalist, is the man who oversaw the colonization, Belgian King Leopold, a ruler who portrayed himself as a great humanitarian, but who was in fact a murderous tyrant. (CAF08, $15.00)
	No Mercy, A Journey to the Heart of the Congo  •  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. An astute scientific observer and a fantastic writer, O'Hanlon encounters dangerous creatures, infectious diseases and unforgettable people on his journey along the roads (or rather swamps) less traveled in central Africa. (CAF01, $15.95)
	Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape  •  Ann Hugon EXPLORATION •  1993 •  PAPER  • 173 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE 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 speak for themselves in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $12.95)
	Africa Map, Central and South, Madagascar 746  •   Michelin Travel Publications 2003 •  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. (AFR36, $11.95)

	Congo Map  •   Cartographia    •  a shaded relief map of Congo. (AFR60, $12.00)
	Nigeria Map  •   Freytag & Berndt    •  A shaded relief map of Nigeria. (AFR39, $11.95)
	Congo, The Bradt Travel Guide  •  Sean Rorison   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular Bradt series, noted for publishing travel guides to remote and little-visited destinations. (WAF125, $27.99)
	Africa  •  Phyllis Martin  •  Patrick O'Meara   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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)
	Africa, A Biography of the Continent  •  John Reader   • HISTORY  •  With the ease of a practiced journalist, Reader weaves a lively and masterful tale of the continent from ancient cultures to modern times. Both authoritative and informal, this is a splendid introduction to all of Africa. (AFR49, $18.95)
	African Ceremonies  •  Carol Beckwith  •  Angela Fisher   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Beckwith and Fisher team up to capture traditional ceremonies and contemporary culture throughout the continent in this lavishly produced, two-volume collection of 850 color photographs. Presented in a slip case. (AFR76, $150.00)
	Another Day in the Life  •  Ryszard Kapuscinski  •  William R. Brand  •  Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand   • HISTORY  •  An account of three months in Angola during the 1960s. (CAF23, $13.95)
	Cultural Atlas of Africa  •  Jocelyn Murray   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A handsomely illustrated atlas of African history and culture with 96 outstanding maps, 250 color photographs and excellent essays. (AFR47, $50.00)
	In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo  •  Michela Wrong   • HISTORY  •  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, $14.95)
	The Black Man's Burden, Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State  •  Basil Davidson   • HISTORY  •  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)
	The Scramble for Africa  •  Thomas Pakenham   • HISTORY  •  A well-written, meticulously researched history of the Victorian land grab in Africa. The book includes excellent portraits of the egomaniacal personalities that overran the continent. (AFR26, $23.95)
	The Shadow of the Sun  •  Ryszard Kapuscinski  •  Klara Glowczewska   • HISTORY  •  A collection of intelligent, wide-ranging essays on Africa by the veteran author and war correspondent. He addresses important themes with insight, including the devastating impact of AIDS and recent political disasters in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Rwanda. (AFR88, $15.00)
	African Art, An Introduction  •  Frank Willett   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A concise, well illustrated overview of the art and culture of Africa, portraying the range of spectacular art produced throughout the ages. (AFR18, $18.95)
	Ake, the Years of Childhood  •  Wole Soyinka   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A Nobel Prize-winning playwright, recalls his Yoruba childhood in Nigeria during World War II. (WAF47, $14.95)
	Blood River, Retracing Stanley's Journey to Africa's Broken Heart  •  Tim Butcher   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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, $25.00)
	Cameroon with Egbert  •  Dervla Murphy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The ever-observant, indomitable Murphy hikes through Cameroon. (CAF21, $16.95)
	Facing the Congo, A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness  •  Jeffrey Taylor   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In this richly oberved travelogue Taylor, a journalist based in Moscow, recounts his adventures on the Congo in the footsteps of Stanley. (CAF10, $14.95)
	I Married Adventure, The Lives of Osa and Martin Johnson  •  Osa Johnson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Osa Johnson's 1940 account of adventures in places she never expected to visit, including Borneo and Kenya. (PAC110, $19.95)
	In Sorcery's Shadow  •  Paul Stoller  •  Cheryl Olkes   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An anthropologist's account of his time in Niger and his experiences with local sorcerers and traditional healers. It's an excellent introduction to the role of magic and its moral complications in African culture. (WAF55, $18.00)
	Into Africa, The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone  •  Martin Dugard   • EXPLORATION  •  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 nuanced, lively portrait of the two men. (AFR130, $15.95)
	Mango Elephants in the Sun, How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin  •  Susan Herrera   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The engaging account of a Peace Corps volunteer in northern Cameroon. (WAF20, $22.95)
	Riding the Demon, On the Road in West Africa  •  Peter Chilson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Peter Chilson took to the road in Niger for this portrait of a turbulent and fascinating nation, where rickety bush taxis, packed to the gills with passengers, provide an eye-opening perspective on the nation. (WAF54, $24.95)
	The Innocent Anthropologist, Notes from a Mud Hut  •  Nigel Barley   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  British anthropologist Barley's refreshingly candid, witty account of the perils of fieldwork among the Dowayo of northern Cameroon. (CAF14, $17.95)
	Through the Dark Continent, Volume 1  •  Henry M. Stanley   • EXPLORATION  •  A reprint of the original accounts of Henry Morton Stanley in Africa. (CAF06, $18.95)
	Through the Dark Continent, Volume 2  •  Henry M. Stanley   • EXPLORATION  •  Volume Two of the journals of Stanley. (CAF07, $18.95)
	To the Heart of the Nile, Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa  •  Pat Shipman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A lively account of the adventurous, eventful life of Lady Florence Baker (1845-1916). (CAF30, $16.95)
	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa  •  Mungo Park   • EXPLORATION  •  The classic first-person account of explorations in search of the Niger River, first published in 1799. Park provides a chronicle of the culture, society and nature of West Africa before the colonial period. (WAF40, $24.95)
	Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories  •  Chinua Achebe  •  Lynn Innes   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A single-volume introduction to the vast literature of Africa, containing stories from the past 37 years. (AFR10, $11.95)
	Half of a Yellow Sun  •  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   • LITERATURE  •  This second novel by the author of Red Hibiscus conjures the terror and hope of the 960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria. (AFR194, $14.95)
	Still Waters in Niger  •  Kathleen Hill   • LITERATURE  •  An atmospheric novel set in America and Niger. After living for in the United States for 17 years, an Irish-American woman returns to a small village in Niger where she had once lived with her husband and three daughters. (WAF53, $15.95)
	The Famished Road  •  Ben Okri   • LITERATURE  •  The haunting, Booker Prize-winning novel set in a Yoruba village in modern Nigeria. (WAF39, $15.95)
	The Poisonwood Bible  •  Barbara Kingsolver   • LITERATURE  •  Kingsolver sends her naïve missionaries into the Belgian Congo in this best-selling novel. (CAF02, $15.00)
	Tropic Moon  •  Georges Simenon   • LITERATURE  •  In Simenon's dark tale of degeneracy and corruption in a colonial outpost, a young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon. (CAF34, $12.95)
	Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon  •   Makuchi  •  Eloise A. Briere   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of short stories from a native of Cameroon. (CAF05, $16.95)
	Jungles  •  Frans Lanting  •  Christine Eckstrom   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An oversize, well produced portfolio of the creatures of the world's equatorial forests by the outstanding wildlife photographer and adventurer Frans Lanting. He presents the birds, insects, reptiles, mammals and plants of the jungles in 120 extraordinary color photographs. (AMZ65, $19.99)
	Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo  •  Kate Jackson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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, $27.95)
	A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa  •  Nik Borrow  •  Ron Demey   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide with illustrations of 1,282 species of the region. (WAF59, $99.95)
	Birds of Western Africa  •  Nik Borrow  •  Ron Demey   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact field edition of Barrow and Demey's comprehensive handbook, covering nearly 1,300 species from Senegal to Congo and featuring 150 color plates. (WAF76, $42.00)
	Birds of Western and Central Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklist  •  Ber Van Perlo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An admirably compact, comprehensive guide to 1,500 species throughout Western and Central Africa featuring 109 color plates by Ber Van Perlo. (WAF02, $29.95)
	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)
	The Safari Companion, A Guide to Watching African Mammals  •  Richard Estes   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An invaluable encyclopedic guide to Africa's mammals by a noted scientist. Written with the typical safari-goer in mind, it includes black-and-white drawings, an overview of each group and in-depth information on the behavior, habits and diet of 100 large African mammals. (AFR06, $30.00)

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