Worth Looking For

Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa • Suzanne Preston Blier • James Morris • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT • A photographic survey of adobe buildings throughout West Africa, including the great mosque at Djenne (the largest mud building in the world), ordinary houses and huts, arches, domes, colonnades, grillwork and other architectural feats. (WAF70, $50.00)
Nomads of Niger • Carol Beckwith • Marion Van Offelen • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • OUT OF PRINT • For this extended photographic essay, famed photographer traveled among the Wodaabe nomads of central Niger for a year and a half, giving her intimate access to the daily life of a family of cattle herders. (WAF52, $29.98)
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)
Travels in West Africa • Mary Kingsley • Anthony Brandt • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • OUT OF PRINT • A wild success in its first printing in 1897, this account of a naive Victorian woman's experiences in West Africa is fascinating. Kingsley writes with a self-deprecating wit and deadpan humor of her collecting expeditions throughout West Africa. (WAF05, $14.00)

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