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CENTRAL AFRICA
Worth Looking For
Cameroon with Egbert
• Dervla Murphy
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1987 •
PAPER
• 282 PAGES
• COMING IN
Egbert was a packhorse, and Dervla Murphy is the gallivanting Irish grandmother of modern travelogues. Together, they trekked through the highlands of Cameroon in 1987. Murphy's daughter completed their traveling trio.
(CAF21, $16.95) |
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The King Incorporated, Leopold the Second and the Congo
• Neal Ascherson
HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 310 PAGES
• COMING IN
A riveting account of the King's remarkably brutal rule of the Congo -- and evil business ventures. In this eye-opening history, Ascherson looks at the king's turn-of-the-century colonial enterprise in the Congo and the enslavement (and murder) of the Congolese people. Originally published in 1963.
(AFR113, $14.95) |
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Nomads of Niger
• Carol Beckwith
• Marion Van Offelen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1993 •
HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES
• COMING IN
Carol Beckwith has made a name for herself photographing the peoples of Africa. For this extended photographic essay, she 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. Marion Van Offelen provides the text accompanying Beckwith's marvelous photos.
(WAF52, $29.98) |
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High Jungles and Low
• Archie Carr
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1992 •
PAPER
• 226 PAGES
• FAVORITE
• COMING IN
In this absorbing memoir, Carr tells of life in the Honduran highlands, where "the volcano-set Pacific shore is 60 miles to the south and the hot, lush, banana coast a hundred miles to the north." His account of slogging through the forest as a gun-toting tagalong on a commercial expedition in search of mahogany is classic. Though it takes place in Honduras, it's just as appropriate for a trip to any Central American jungle. Peter Mathiessen enthused that it is, "Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road."
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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.
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