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TIMBUKTU & BEYOND
Worth Looking For
Timbuktu, The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold
• Marq de Villiers
• Sheila Hirtle
EXPLORATION •
2008 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
• COMING IN
In this anecdotal account of the legendary city, combining history, obvervation and travel, de Villiers (Sahara) traces the fate of the city as center of trade, center of learning and home of the Tuareg. The authors have also written Sahara (NAF13, $14.00).
(WAF113, $21.00) |
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Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa
• Suzanne Preston Blier
• James Morris
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 216 PAGES
• COMING IN
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. The book covers a wide geographic scope, taking in Mali and Niger but also astounding villages of Burkina Faso. The accompanying 25-page essay Blier covers the history, technology and cultural significance of adobe in West Africa. With 175 black-and-white and color photographs.
(WAF70, $50.00) |
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The Tuareg, People of the Ahaggar
• Jeremy Keenan
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2002 •
PAPER
• 385 PAGES
• COMING IN
A vivid portrait of the blue-veiled Berber nomads of Algeria and central Sahara by a British anthropologist, filmmaker and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Keenan lived and worked among the Tuareg in the early 1970s and the book was originally published in 1977. This edition includes a new preface by Keenan.
(NAF14, $31.95) |
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Mande Potters and Leatherworkers, Art and Heritage in West Africa
• Barbara Frank
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• COMING IN
A nicely illustrated scholarly cultural history of Mande-speaking craftspeople in West Africa. Dispersed throughout Mali and West Africa, Mande potters and leatherworkers form a distinct social class, where women make ceramics and the men work in leather. With 44 color and 144 black-and-white illustrations.
(WAF61, $27.95) |
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Forbidden Sands, A Search in the Sahara
• Richard C. Trench
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 197 PAGES
• COMING IN
In 1974 Trench, a British journalist, set out by camel to Taoudenni, Mali, to investigate allegations of slave labor in the Malian salt mines. Equal parts travelogue and investigative report, his book is also an illuminating cultural history of salt -- and of Mali itself.
(WAF51, $14.95) |
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Dogon, Africa's People of the Cliffs
• Stephanie Hollyman
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
• COMING IN
A cultural portrait of the Dogon people of Mali. For thousands of years, despite extensive contact with Western civilization, the Dogon have maintained their old way of life, living in mud-brick houses below the Bandiagara cliffs, harvesting millet and sorghum in the sandy plains. Stephanie Hollyman's 125 intimate photographs capture the essence of this tightly knit, cooperative society.
(WAF46, $49.50) |
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Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape
• Ann Hugon
EXPLORATION •
1993 •
PAPER
• 173 PAGES
• COMING IN
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, $15.95) |
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