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  • WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    BURTON, RICHARD
    This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton “in the aspect in which he was known best to the world – as a traveler and explorer”. Spanning the period from 1853 to 1870, the most active years of Burton’s life, the book includes chapters on Burton’s controversial pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina, his travels to the city of Harar (in present-day Ethiop...
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  • VICEROY OF OUIDAH, THE
    VICEROY OF OUIDAH, THE
    CHATWIN, BRUCE
    In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah and the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph, but his friendship with the mad, m...
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  • ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR
    ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR
    FATHY, HASSAN
    This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers ...
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  • YORUBA GURUS
    YORUBA GURUS
    FALOLA, TOYIN
    YORUBA GURUS ...
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  • WE ARE ALL BIRDS OF UGANDA
    WE ARE ALL BIRDS OF UGANDA
    ZAYYAN, HAFSA
    Uganda, the late 1960s. Hasan, the son of an Indian immigrant, runs a successful business in Kampala together with his extended family. But Hasan is heartbroken as he struggles to cope with the untimely death of his wife. With anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise, growing racial divides threaten to uproot everything he and his family have worked so hard to build. ...
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  • MEMORIAS DEL RÍO NÍGER
    MEMORIAS DEL RÍO NÍGER
    LOPEZ DE CASTRO, IRENE
    “Nosotros no conquistamos África. Es África la que nos conquista”. ¿Puede un viaje transformar tu vida para siempre? ¿Es posible sentir una extraña y poderosa conexión con un lugar a miles de kilómetros de tu origen? ¿Quién nos guía para coincidir en el momento y en el sitio justos? En 1989, Irene, una joven estudiante de Bellas Artes, tuvo una oportunidad inesperada: viajar ...
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  • AFTERLIVES
    AFTERLIVES
    GURNAH, ABDULRAZAK
    Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the army, at the right hand of an officer whose control has ensured his protection but marked him for life. Ham...
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  • HEART OF DARKNESS
    HEART OF DARKNESS
    CONRAD, JOSEPH
    Life on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into conflict with the others who haunt the forest. But his decision to hunt down the mysterious Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader who is the subject of sinister ...
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  • OUT OF EGYPT
    OUT OF EGYPT
    ACIMAN, ANDRÉ
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, a memoir of an extraordinary life. '[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptoril...
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  • CHRISTIAN THE LION -BRADT
    CHRISTIAN THE LION -BRADT
    RENDALL, JOHN / CATTANI, DEREK
    The story that captured the imagination of the world...In 1969 Harrods department store in London sold a three month old lion cub to two young Australians, John Rendall and Anthony (Ace) Bourke. They called him Christian. For a year Christian lived happily and safely with John and Ace and his human 'pride', initially in the World's End on the King's Road in Chelsea, where Derek...
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  • FROM KHARTOUM TO JERUSALEM
    FROM KHARTOUM TO JERUSALEM
    MAIRS, RACHEL
    In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the Holy Land, from travellers of different nationalities, social classes, religions, ge...
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  • A CHEETAH'S TALE -BRADT
    A CHEETAH'S TALE -BRADT
    HRH PRINCESS MICHAEL OF KENT
    This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. Beautifully written by a natural storyteller and packed with fabulous photographs, it is also a wonderful portrait of Africa - the cheetah version of Born Free - and will delight readers worldwide.In the early 1960s, Mar...
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