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by Henry Morton Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
4 works of Henry Morton Stanley Welsh American journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of central Africa (1841-1904)
This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Henry Morton Stanley. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
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The Ukimwi Road
from Kenya to Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Allowing herself several months to unwind, Dervla Murphy, at sixty, set off on a three-thousand-mile bike ride from Kenya to Zimbabwe via Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. She soon realized that, for travellers in search of tranquillity, Africa is best avoided. Beguiled by the loquacious people...
No Man's Land
An investigative journey through Kenya and Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book tells the story of George Monbiot's journeys among some of the tribal peoples of East Africa, showing how they are confronting the forces which threaten to deprive both them and us of the life that civilization has tried to suppress. In northern Kenya he saw how bandits, equipped by the...
The Dead will Arise
Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle killing 1856-7
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle-Killing of 1856-57, which she initiated, is one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood events in South Africa's...
The Great Treks
The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the...
by Edwin Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The Gulistan of Sa'di
tr. by Edwin Arnold
One of the most important of the medieval Persian poets, SA'DI (1194-1292) is still read widely today, with an influence that extends to Western writers such as La Fontaine, Diderot, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Goethe, and Emerson. He spent much of his...
Roses Under the Miombo Trees
An English Girl in Rhodesia
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Amanda Parkyn’s memoir focusses on her life in 1960s Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Based on the letters she wrote to her parents back in England, Roses Under the Miombo Trees covers significant events in Rhodesia’s history as uniquely witnessed through the eyes of a young naïve housewife Amanda...
Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto weSizwe
South Africa’s Liberation Army, 1960s–1990s
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century—but it never got to “march triumphant into Pretoria.” MK—as it was known—was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa’s liberation movement, that challenged...
Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats
More Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
The sequel to the bestselling Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets, this is a collection of more fascinating, colourful - and mostly unknown - historical tales, all meticulously researched and written in a lively and engaging style. There are stories of Khoikhoi who tried - with mixed fortunes - to integrate...
The Boer War
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the...
Sudan
The Failure and Division of an African State
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa’s largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court,...
by Philip Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
The Bradt Guide to Uganda, now more than 500-pages long, is the definitive travel handbook to this wonderful but oft-neglected destination, not only providing comprehensive background information to its varied national parks, towns and other cultural attractions, but also including detailed reviews...
by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Mary Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Zambia, Mozambique & Malawi is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit the largest waterfalls on earth at Victoria Falls, canoe past...
Safari Adventures in Southern Tanzania
2009 - 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
This is the tale of many experiences while rough camping in the Selous, Ruaha and Mikumi Parks of Tanzania. These less visited areas present different challenges to the well known Northern Parks such as the Serengeti.
Camps were set right on the shores of lakes alive with Hippos and Crocodiles,...