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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $78, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXWAF61)		  
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)		   Rough Guide West Africa
Born on a Monday, A Photo Documentary of Ghana  •  Carrie Brown
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2005 •  PAPER  • 64 PAGES
Carrie Brown documents the people, culture and daily activities of the village of Woe in Ghana in this striking collection of color photographs. Brown was a volunteer with Cross-Cultural Solutions in Ghana from September to March 2003. With accompanying essays by Brown and Cross-Cultural Solutions' Ghanaian staff. (WAF79, $24.95)		   Born on a Monday, A Photo Documentary of Ghana
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)		   Viceroy of Ouidah
Africa North and West Map  •  Michelin
2011 •  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. One Side. 40x57 inches. (AFR34, $11.95)		   Africa North and West Map



Also Recommended

Ghana Map  •  ITMB    •  A colorful, folded map of Ghana at a detailed scale of 1:500,000. (WAF37, $12.95)
 		  
Togo Map  •  IGN    •  A shaded relief map of Togo, on a 1:500,000 scale. (AFR37, $16.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles  •  Richard Dowden   • HISTORY  •  Africa editor of The Independent and The Economist, Richard Dowden draws on decades of experience in this multi-faceted, vivid portrait of contemporary Africa -- an Africa that, Dowden effectively argues, can only be developed by its own people. (AFR242, $19.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $21.95)
 		  
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, $16.95)
 		  
Saltwater Slavery, A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora  •  Stephanie E. Smallwood   • HISTORY  •  Smallwood offers a clear, engaging study of Slavery and the Middle Passage, drawing upon journals, narratives and letters from slaves transported in harsh conditions across the Atlantic. (WAF115, $19.95)
 		  
Spellbound, Inside West Africa's Witch Camps  •  Karen Palmer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Also including a history of Ghana under British rule, Palmer investigates the pervasive influence of the spirit world and the phenomenon of exiling women to remote colonies in the north in this gritty report. (WAF152, $25.00)
 		  
The Door of No Return, The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade  •  William St. Clair   • HISTORY  •  St. Clair draws on correspondence, government records, artifacts and ship logs for this intimate, absorbing history of the British slave trade as seen through life at Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Although focused on Ghana, this is an essential record of the transatlantic slave trade. (WAF116, $15.95)
 		  
The Race for Timbuktu  •  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)
 		  
African Vodun: Art, Psychology and Power  •  Susanne Preston Blier   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A detailed study of West African vodun traditions, particularly in Togo and Benin. Blier compares the psychological and visual elements of Vodun with related voodoo traditions of Haiti and New Orleans. (WAF74, $52.50)
 		  
Palace Sculptures of Abomey, History Told on Walls  •  Francesca Pique  •  Leslie Rainer   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated survey and history of the sculptures and bas-reliefs at the Dahomey palace with 120 color photographs. (WAF77, $29.95)
 		  
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, $14.00)
 		  
Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape  •  Ann Hugon   • EXPLORATION • 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 are featured in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $15.95)
 		  
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. Organized geographically, he devotes a chapter each to Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Zaire. (WAF68, $17.95)
 		  
Journey Without Maps  •  Graham Greene   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  No one captures local personalities and complicated morality than Graham Greene, who had a particular interest in West Africa. This account traces his trek to the Liberian coast. (WAF15, $16.00)
 		  
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  •  Park chronicles of the culture, society and nature of West Africa before the colonial period in this classic account of a 24-year-old Scotsman exploring, often alone, in uncharted Africa. First published in 1799. (WAF40, $12.95)
 		  
Changes, A Love Story  •  Ama Ata Aidoo   • LITERATURE  •  A novel from the multitalented author and playwright, in which the independent Esi Sekyi confronts traditional values in marriage, love, career and family in contemporary Ghana. (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)
 		  
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, $14.95)
 		  
West African Folktales  •  Jack Berry  •  Richard Spears   • ANTHOLOGY  •  These 123 unembellished tales reflect the rich oral tradition of cultures throughout West Africa, particularly Ghana and Nigeria, where the pioneering Berry did much of his field work. (WAF13, $21.00)
 		  
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, $45.00)
 		  
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. (WAF02, $29.95)
 		  
National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This comprehensive photo guide covers 850 birds, mammals and reptiles of Africa. With range maps and a good country-by-country overview of habitats and parks. (AFR25, $24.95)
 		  
 
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