Africa category: 4903 books
by F. C. Selous
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was a British explorer, hunter and conservationist, and is most remembered for his activities in Southeast Africa. Selous explored lesser-known areas, where he recorded ethnographic notes and collected specimens. ‘Big Game Shooting’, published in 1894, is...
by Frederick Selous.
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London. The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download. This edition includes illustrations. Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for...
A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (Illustrated)
A Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Boone and Crockett Club has brought back to life Frederick Courteney Selous' epic African adventure in a meticulously remastered, high-quality paperback edition. Follow noted adventurer Selous as he spends nine years amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa as a professional hunter...
Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro
An Historical Account of German Settlers from Palestine Who Started a New Life in German East Africa During the Late 19Th and Early 20Th Centuries.
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro covers the period from the establishment of the former colony of German East Africa in the late 19th century until the formation of the independent State of Tanganyika in 1961. The book focuses on a small group of German settlers who ventured into a new world - German...
China's Second Continent
How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book
Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China,...
Africa
Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for...
Africa after Modernism
Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing...
Contemporary Africa's Growth and Development
Issues, Paradox and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. After discussing and weighing the schools of thought that have attempted to explain the paradox of Africa’s reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources, this...
The Fortunes of Africa
A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it...
by Ferial Haffajee
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
In What if there were no whites in South Africa? Ferial Haffajee examines South Africa’s history and present in the light of a provocative question that yields some thought-provoking discussion and analysis. From round-table discussions with influential South Africans, to research, personal thoughts...
Christianity in Roman Africa
The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In-depth, illustrated exploration of how early North African Christians lived out their faith
Using a combination of literary and archeological evidence, this in-depth, illustrated book documents the development of Christian practices and doctrine in Roman Africa -- contemporary Libya, Tunisia,...
by Brian Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Anyone about to work in Africa will find this book instructive. It looks at the troubled history of the African continent south of the Sahara Desert. Readers learn of the early slave trade across the Sahara to destinations in the Middle East. This volume shows Portuguese explorers edging around the...
A Life for Freedom
The Mission to End Racial Injustice in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning...
by Richard Burton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This file includes: First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar; The Land of Midian (Revisited); Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; To the Gold Coast for Gold, a Personal Narrative; and Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. According to Wikipedia:...