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These 4 items are available for $56, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXWAF22)

Rough Guide West Africa  •  Jim Hudgens  •  Richard Trillo GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 1312 PAGES A comprehensive guide to all West Africa, including its history and culture. With its region-by-region descriptions, 172 maps and 12 pages of color photos, this guide covers everything from the volcanoes on the Cape Verde Islands to Mali's Dogon country to the national parks of Ghana and Nigeria. (WAF38, $34.99)
Travels in West Africa  •  Mary Kingsley  •  Anthony Brandt BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES 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, $14.95)
Viceroy of Ouidah  •  Bruce Chatwin LITERATURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 160 PAGES The tale of Francesco Manoel de Silva and his adventures in the royal court in the West African kingdom of Dahomey (Benin). A stunning demonstration of Chatwin's masterful prose, command of historical detail and fully imagined characters. (WAF18, $13.00)
Africa North and West Map 741  •  Michelin 2007 •  MAP A fine map of the north and parts of western Africa, covering Senegal, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and their neighbors as well as all the Mediterranean-bordering countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) at a scale of 1:4,000,000. (AFR34, $11.95)

Ghana Map  •  ITMB    •  A colorful, folded map of Ghana at a detailed scale of 1:500,000. (WAF37, $11.95)
Bradt Guide Ghana  •  Philip Briggs  •  Hilary Bradt  •  Annabel Milne   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Complete with maps and town plans, this guide to Ghana features practical information on the country's history, culture and attractions. (WAF27, $26.99)
African Ceremonies  •  Carol Beckwith  •  Angela Fisher   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Beckwith and Fisher team up to capture traditional ceremonies and contemporary culture throughout the continent in this lavishly produced, two-volume collection of 850 color photographs. Presented in a slip case. (AFR76, $150.00)
Born on a Monday, A Photo Documentary of Ghana  •  Carrie Brown   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Carrie Brown documents the people, culture and daily activities of the village of Woe in Ghana in this striking collection of color photographs. With accompanying essays by Brown and Cross-Cultural Solutions' Ghanaian staff. (WAF79, $24.95)
Captive Passage, The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas  •  The Mariners' Museum  •  Smithsonian Inst.   • HISTORY  •  A companion volume to the exhibition drawn largely from the collections of The Mariners' Museum. (ATL14, $39.95)
Dancing Skeletons, Life and Death in West Africa  •  Katherine Dettwyler   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This detailed account of life in Mali by a cultural anthropologist won the Margaret Mead Award in 1995. (WAF14, $16.95)
Faces of Africa, Thirty Years of Photography  •  Carol Beckwith  •  Angela Fisher   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A portfolio of people and places in Africa by the remarkable team of Beckwith and Fisher. Organized thematically, it features 120 stunning color portraits. (AFR138, $35.00)
Forests of Gold, Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante  •  Ivor Wilks   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A collection of essays that explores the Akan peoples of Ghana and examines the Asante kingdom. (WAF33, $25.00)
Onions are My Husband, Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women  •  Gracia Clark   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A vivid ethnographic portrait of the women of the enormous open-air Kumasi Central Market in Ghana based on interviews and fieldwork by University of Indiana anthropologist Gracia Clark. (WAF28, $37.50)
The Gates of Africa, Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu  •  Sattin Anthony   • HISTORY  •  An engaging chronological history of the adventures and explorations of the African Association which, starting in 1788, set out into the Sahara, onto the Nile and Niger Rivers, and searched for the legendary city of Timbuktu. (AFR145, $27.95)
The Race for Timbuktu, In Search of Africa's City of Gold  •  Frank T. Kryza   • HISTORY  •  An engrossing account of imperial adventures in early 19th-century West Africa and the quest for fabled Timbuktu. (WAF88, $14.95)
West Africa Before the Colonial Era, a History to 1850  •  Basil Davidson   • HISTORY  •  A history of the rich empires and cultures of West Africa before 1850. Davidson puts the stories of these cultures in a broader, general context. Includes maps, illustrations, and a timeline. (WAF07, $44.60)
Rough Guide Music West African Gold  •  Rough Guide World Music   • MUSIC  •  Subtitled "The Big Beat of West Africa, Joyous Sounds from a Golden Era, this authoritative compilation showcases the music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, including bands such as Bembeya Jazz, the music of Salif Keita and Dexter Johnson & the International Band and Orchestra Baobab. (WAF100, $14.95)
Rough Guide West African Music  •  Various Artists   • MUSIC  •  A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of West Africa. Artists include Ali Farka Toure, Super Rail Band, Mansour Seck, Orchestra Baobab and more. (WAF95, $14.98)
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes  •  Maya Angelou   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A candid memoir of Angelou's experiences in Ghana in the 1960s, just five years after the country's independence from Britain. (WAF24, $13.00)
Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape  •  Ann Hugon   • EXPLORATION • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  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, $12.95)
French Lessons in Africa, Travels with my Briefcase Through French Africa  •  Peter Biddlecombe   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A scandalously entertaining and useful introduction to Francophone Africa by the hilarious British writer and inveterate traveler. (WAF68, $15.99)
Journey Without Maps  •  Graham Greene   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic account of a 1930s journey of discovery from Sierra Leone to the Liberian coast. There's no one better at capturing local personalities and complicated morality than Graham Greene, who had a particular interest in West Africa. (WAF15, $15.00)
Kwame Nkrumah, The Father of African Nationalism  •  David Birmingham   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The tale of the remarkable life of Kwame Nkrumah, the African statesman who championed for independence, won Africans the right to vote, and became the president of Ghana in 1960. (WAF34, $14.95)
Somebody's Heart Is Burning, A Woman Wanderer in Africa  •  Tanya Shaffer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Shaffer's vivid account of a year on the road in Africa, much of it in Ghana, where she worked on building schools and other volunteer projects. (WAF80, $13.95)
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa  •  Mungo Park   • EXPLORATION  •  The classic first-person account of explorations in search of the Niger River, first published in 1799. Park provides a chronicle of the culture, society and nature of West Africa before the colonial period. (WAF40, $24.95)
Wanderings in West Africa  •  Richard Francis Burton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This account, originally published in 1861, results from a three-year stint in the British Foreign office in Fernando Po, an island off the coast of West Africa. It's a valuable first-hand account of short trips around the West African coast. (WAF12, $19.95)
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories  •  Ama Ata Aidoo   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of eleven short stories about the lives of women and men in postcolonial Ghana and the tensions between traditional village and urban life; Aidoo's stories emphasize Ghana's prominent oral culture. (WAF23, $13.95)
West African Folktales  •  Jack Berry  •  Richard Spears   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of 123 unembellished tales, well-chosen and simply translated. It's a good introduction to the spirit of traditional cultures throughout West Africa. (WAF13, $21.00)
Changes, A Love Story  •  Ama Ata Aidoo   • LITERATURE  •  Aidoo creates a moving portrait of womens' lives in Africa and the problems that are all too familiar in almost every culture. (WAF35, $15.95)
Middle Passage  •  Charles Johnson   • LITERATURE  •  Winner of the National Book Award, this historical novel, set in 1830, is the richly imagined tale of a recently freed slave in New Orleans who signs aboard a square-rigger bound for Africa. (ATL02, $15.00)
Birds of Western Africa  •  Nik Borrow  •  Ron Demey   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact field edition of Barrow and Demey's comprehensive handbook, covering nearly 1,300 species from Senegal to Congo and featuring 150 color plates. (WAF76, $42.00)
Birds of Western and Central Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklist  •  Ber Van Perlo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An admirably compact, comprehensive guide to 1,500 species throughout Western and Central Africa featuring 109 color plates by Ber Van Perlo. (WAF02, $29.95)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A portable guide to the landforms, wild areas, mammals, birds, reptiles and insects of Africa, featuring contributions by experts and almost 600 color photographs. (AFR25, $23.95)