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)
Travels in West Africa  •  Mary Kingsley  •  Anthony Brandt BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES • COMING IN A wild success in its first printing in 1897, this account of a naive Victorian woman's experiences in West Africa is fascinating, in part for its insight into prevailing turn-of-the-century Western ideas about the so-called "dark continent." Kingsley -- a genuine explorer -- writes with a self-deprecating wit and deadpan humor of her collecting expeditions throughout West Africa, Cameroon and Gabon. Abridged and introduced by Elspeth Huxley. (WAF05, $14.00)