Africa category: 4903 books
by Sharon Bell
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
You first met Grace, Peter, and Nathaniel in ADVENTURES IN AFRICA. They are a little '"older and wiser" now, having each had a birthday and a few months of African life tucked under their belts. In ACCLIMATING TO AFRICA (MAKING KENYA HOME), they would like to share some valuable lessons...
by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
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Far away, toward the other side of the round earth, far to the east and south of America, lies the great continent of Africa. There live many people strange to us, with their black skins, kinky, woolly hair, flat noses, and thick lips. These black people...
Twelve Desperate Miles
The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents in the trunk of a Chevy,...
Playing the Enemy
Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's...
Peter Capstick's Africa
A Return To The Long Grass
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1987
Peter Hathaway Capstick is a name synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure. Sportsman, adventurer, raconteur par excellence, Capstick has been recognized as a modern-day master of African hunting literature—a successor to the works of Hemingway and Robert Ruark.
Capstick has...
The Last Train to Zona Verde
My Ultimate African Safari
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
"Theroux is at his best when he tells [people’s] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux’s great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself—and thus, to challenge us." — Boston Globe
Paul Theroux’s best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled...
The Mirror at Midnight
A South African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
A “stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation” by the New York Times–bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost (Publishers Weekly).
National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime’s familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination...
Africa Lost
Rhodesia's COIN Killing Machine
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The Lost Chapter of Special Operations History: Rhodesia.
Some of the most explosive combat in Special Operations history is almost completely unknown to the Western World. Everyone knows about Navy SEALs and Green Berets but nobody knows about the deep recce, sabotage, and direct action missions...
Nelson Mandela
The Fight Against Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Nelson Mandela in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Nelson Mandela’s lifelong fight against apartheid. This system of racial segregation was enshrined in law in South...
From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond
Israel’S Foreign Policy in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond provides the most thorough analysis of Israels foreign policy towards East Africa. Since its modern reestablishment, Israel has sought political allies in the international community. To achieve that goal, Israel offers technological, economic and military...
by Martin Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
Martin...
Sharpeville
An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start...
Up in Arms
Pursuing Accountability for the Arms Deal in Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
“This book is not so much a political autobiography as an account from a personal point of view of a momentous series of events in the life of South Africa’s second democratic Parliament, and my role in them as a public representative, when the executive and legislature faced each other in a standoff...
by Andrew Norman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu; the invasion by the Matabele under King Mzilikaze; the advent of the white missionaries; and the arrival of Cecil Rhodes and his Pioneer Column of early settlers,...