Africa
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A Bend in the River
- £35.00
- A Bend in the River is V. S. NaipaulÕs vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving…
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A Long Walk to Water
- £8.00
- A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hoursÕ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the…
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A Manifesto for Social Change: How to Save South Africa
- £16.00
- A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country's - and the continent's - development obstacles. Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating…
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A People Betrayed: The Role Of The West In Rwanda’s Genocide
- £15.00
- In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making…
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A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
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African Nights (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
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An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1) (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As…
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Black Mischief
- £35.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Mischief
- £30.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Mischief
- £16.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Blood River: A journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.…
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Blue Shoes and Happiness (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES. The one with the witch who flew away . . . Mma Ramotswe is happily married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, but her work seems more hectic than ever. Among the raft of cases coming the way…
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Geldof in Africa
- £35.00
- Bob Geldof celebrates the glories of Africa and its diverse peoples in a stunningly illustrated book tracking his journey across the continent. Provocative, informative, funny, poignant and endlessly entertaining, Geldof supplies his own unique take on this extraordinary land. Travelling through Ghana, Benin, Mall, D. R Congo, Uganda, Ethiopa, Tanzania…
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
- £350.00
- Churchill's popular memoir of his experiences in the first 5 months of the 2nd Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the…
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Mary Slessor of Calabar, pioneer missionary
- £15.00
- A pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint, Slessor managed to convince the Ibibio…
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
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Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a black man under French colonial rule had a profound effect…
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Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda
- £75.00
- The autobiography of Yoweni Kaguta Museveni. Museveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.
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The Caliban Shore: the fate of the Grosvenor castaways (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest…
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The Christian Ministry in Africa
- £8.00
- Abridged from Sundkler's longer title of the same name published in 1960, this paperback version is the result of the swedish theologian's experiences as missionary bishop in what was then Tanganyika. 'No anthropologist concerned with the nature of African thought, and no politician concerned with the African future, can afford…
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The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
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The Dogs of War
- £18.00
- An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, one which could change the course of a nation's history forever. But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find. A ruthless and bloody-minded tycoon,…
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- £25.00
- One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew,…
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The Last King of Scotland (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator. 'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph. 'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening Standard. In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of…
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the…
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Towards Asmara: an African Novel
- £20.00
- During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they bear witness to the devastation of war as…
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Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
- Add to basket
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A Bend in the River
- £35.00
- A Bend in the River is V. S. NaipaulÕs vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving…
- Add to basket
-
A Long Walk to Water
- £8.00
- A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hoursÕ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the…
- Add to basket
-
A Manifesto for Social Change: How to Save South Africa
- £16.00
- A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country's - and the continent's - development obstacles. Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating…
- Add to basket
-
A People Betrayed: The Role Of The West In Rwanda’s Genocide
- £15.00
- In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making…
- Add to basket
-
A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
- Add to basket
-
African Nights (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
- Add to basket
-
An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
- Add to basket
-
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1) (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As…
- Add to basket
-
Black Mischief
- £35.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
- Add to basket
-
Black Mischief
- £30.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
- Add to basket
-
Black Mischief
- £16.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
- Add to basket
-
Blood River: A journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.…
- Add to basket
-
Blue Shoes and Happiness (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES. The one with the witch who flew away . . . Mma Ramotswe is happily married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, but her work seems more hectic than ever. Among the raft of cases coming the way…
- Add to basket
-
Geldof in Africa
- £35.00
- Bob Geldof celebrates the glories of Africa and its diverse peoples in a stunningly illustrated book tracking his journey across the continent. Provocative, informative, funny, poignant and endlessly entertaining, Geldof supplies his own unique take on this extraordinary land. Travelling through Ghana, Benin, Mall, D. R Congo, Uganda, Ethiopa, Tanzania…
- Add to basket
-
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
- £350.00
- Churchill's popular memoir of his experiences in the first 5 months of the 2nd Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the…
- Add to basket
-
Mary Slessor of Calabar, pioneer missionary
- £15.00
- A pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint, Slessor managed to convince the Ibibio…
- Add to basket
-
Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
- Add to basket
-
Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a black man under French colonial rule had a profound effect…
- Add to basket
-
Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda
- £75.00
- The autobiography of Yoweni Kaguta Museveni. Museveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.
- Add to basket
-
The Caliban Shore: the fate of the Grosvenor castaways (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest…
- Add to basket
-
The Christian Ministry in Africa
- £8.00
- Abridged from Sundkler's longer title of the same name published in 1960, this paperback version is the result of the swedish theologian's experiences as missionary bishop in what was then Tanganyika. 'No anthropologist concerned with the nature of African thought, and no politician concerned with the African future, can afford…
- Add to basket
-
The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
- Add to basket
-
The Dogs of War
- £18.00
- An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, one which could change the course of a nation's history forever. But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find. A ruthless and bloody-minded tycoon,…
- Add to basket
-
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- £25.00
- One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew,…
- Add to basket
-
The Last King of Scotland (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator. 'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph. 'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening Standard. In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of…
- Add to basket
-
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the…
- Add to basket
-
Towards Asmara: an African Novel
- £20.00
- During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they bear witness to the devastation of war as…
- Add to basket
-
Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
- Add to basket