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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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TIMBUKTU, DOGON COUNTRY & BEYOND

Worth Looking For

Timbuktu, The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

Timbuktu, The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold


by Marq de Villiers | Sheila Hirtle

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

The husband-and-wife duo spin a lively tale of founding myths, Tuareg traditions, Moroccan invasions and the fate of the city as a center of trade and learning in this anecdotal history. The authors have also written Sahara (NAF13, $14.00). (WAF113, $21.00)

Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa

Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa


by Suzanne Preston Blier | James Morris

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2003
  • HARD COVER
  • 216 PAGES
  • 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)

The Tuareg, People of the Ahaggar

The Tuareg, People of the Ahaggar


by Jeremy Keenan

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 385 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

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. Originally published in 1977, the book has a new preface in this edition. (NAF14, $31.95)

Mande Potters and Leatherworkers, Art and Heritage in West Africa

Mande Potters and Leatherworkers, Art and Heritage in West Africa


by Barbara Frank

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

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. (WAF61, $27.95)

Forbidden Sands, A Search in the Sahara

Forbidden Sands, A Search in the Sahara


by Richard C. Trench

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 197 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Equal parts travelogue and investigative report of the salt mines at Taoudenni, this classic account is also an illuminating cultural history of salt -- and of Mali itself. (WAF51, $14.95)

Dogon, Africa's People of the Cliffs

Dogon, Africa's People of the Cliffs


by Stephanie Hollyman

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 192 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Hollyman's 125 intimate photographs capture the essence of the tightly knit, cooperative society of the Dogon of Mali, their traditional ways of life and distinctive architecture. (WAF46, $49.50)

Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape

Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape


by Ann Hugon

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 173 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

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 are featured in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $15.95)

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