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Cameroon with Egbert


by Dervla Murphy

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 282 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

The ever-observant, indomitable Murphy hikes through Cameroon. (CAF21, $16.95)

The King Incorporated, Leopold the Second and the Congo


by Neal Ascherson

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 310 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Ascherson looks at King Leopold's turn-of-the-century colonial enterprise in the Congo and the enslavement (and murder) of the Congolese people in this riveting account of his vrutal rule. (AFR113, $14.95)

Nomads of Niger

Nomads of Niger


by Carol Beckwith | Marion Van Offelen

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1993
  • HARD COVER
  • 224 PAGES
  • 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)

High Jungles and Low

High Jungles and Low


by Archie Carr

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 226 PAGES
  • FAVORITE
  • OUT OF PRINT

This absorbing memoir of slogging through the forest as a gun-toting tagalong on a commercial expedition in search of mahogany in the Honduran highlands is a classic. The book to read for anyone heading to the tropics. (CAM01, $19.95)

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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