With its African cloth clovers and sumptuous photography, this 7-pound beauty samples the style and essence of the dwellings, lodges, palaces, stylish homes and courtyards from Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana and the Ivory Coast to South Africa.  (AFR191, $59.99)

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ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2008 • HARD COVER  • 720 PAGES
Covered with African cloth, this seven-pound beauty, sumptuously photographed by Deidi von Schaewen, samples the style and essence of the dwellings, lodges, palaces, homes and courtyards from Egypt, Morocco, East Africa and the Indian Ocean to Mali, Senegal, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. (AFR231, $59.99)