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An Affair with Africa : Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continentby Alzada Carlisle KistnerISBN 1559635312 (1-55963-531-2)
Hardcover, Island Press
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African Political Systemsby M. FortesISBN 1406701254 (1-4067-0125-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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African Proverbsby Charlotte Leslau, Wolf LeslauISBN 0880880252 (0-88088-025-2)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Press, Incorporated
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African Safari Journalby Mark NoltingISBN 0939895080 (0-939895-08-0)
Softcover, Global Travel Pub
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African Visasby Maria ThomasISBN 0939149540 (0-939149-54-0)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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Afro-Bets First Book About Africaby Veronica Ellis, George FordISBN 0940975033 (0-940975-03-3)
Softcover, Just Us Books Inc
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Animals of Africaby Thomas B. Allen, Frans Lanting, Mitsuaki Iwago, Jim Brandenburg, Michael NicholsISBN 0883637979 (0-88363-797-9)
Hardcover, Hugh Lauter Levin Assc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animals of Africa'Book summary:Who would have guessed that a rhinoceros communicates by whistling? That a wildebeest can run just minutes after emerging from its mother's womb? That a hippopotamus eats 200 pounds of leaves a day? Thomas Allen gathers a host of intriguing profiles of the animals of Africa, their number rapidly diminishing, to narrate this collection of some 200 photographic images by Jim Brandenburg, Mitsuaki Iwago, Frans Lanting, Michael Nichols, and Shin Yoshino. The work is of uniformly high quality and is handsomely presented, making Animals of Africa a fine gift book for animal lovers. [via]
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Art Song: The Marriage of Music and Poetryby Barbara MeisterISBN 0893416355 (0-89341-635-5)
Hardcover, Hollowbrook Pub
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Balthasar's Odysseyby Amin MaaloufISBN 155970702X (1-55970-702-X)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Balthasar's Odysseyby Barbara Bray, Amin MaaloufISBN 155970666X (1-55970-666-X)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Beau Gesteby Percival Christopher WrenISBN 0899681352 (0-89968-135-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Benny and Omarby Eoin ColferISBN 1423102827 (1-4231-0282-7)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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Two very different cultures collide in this hilarious book about a young sports fanatic named Benny who is forced to leave his home in Ireland and move with his family to Tunisia. He wonders how he will survive in such an unfamiliar place. Then he teams up with wild and resourceful Omar, and a madcap friendship between the two boys leads to trouble, escapades, a unique way of communicating, and ultimately, a heartbreaking challenge. [via]More editions of Benny and Omar:
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The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovoby Clea KoffISBN 1400060648 (1-4000-6064-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo'Book summary:In the spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist analyzing prehistoric skeletons in the safe confines of Berkeley, California, was one of sixteen scientists chosen by the UN International Criminal Tribunal to go to Rwanda to unearth the physical evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. The Bone Woman is Koffs riveting, deeply personal account of that mission and the six subsequent missions she undertookto Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovoon behalf of the UN.
In order to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity, the UN needs to know the answer to one question: Are the bodies those of noncombatants? To answer this, one must learn who the victims were, and how they were killed. Only one group of specialists in the world can make both those determinations: forensic anthropologists, trained to identify otherwise unidentifiable human remains by analyzing their skeletons. Forensic anthropologists unlock the stories of peoples lives, as well as of their last moments.
Koffs unflinching account of her years with the UNwhat she saw, how it affected her, who was prosecuted based on evidence she found, what she learned about the worldis alternately gripping, frightening, and miraculously hopeful. Readers join Koff as she comes face-to-face with the realities of genocide: nearly five hundred bodies exhumed from a single grave in Kibuye, Rwanda; the wire-bound wrists of Srebrenica massacre victims uncovered in Bosnia; the disinterment of the body of a young man in southwestern Kosovo as his grandfather looks on in silence.
Yet even as she recounts the hellish working conditions, the tangled bureaucracy of the UN, and the heartbreak of survivors, Koff imbues her story with purpose, humanity, and an unfailing sense of justice. This is a book only Clea Koff could have written, charting her journey from wide-eyed innocent to soul-weary veteran across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century. A tale of science in the service of human rights, The Bone Woman is, even more profoundly, a story of hope and enduring moral principles. [via]More editions of The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo:
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The Book of the Deadby E a Wallis BudgeISBN 1406500046 (1-4065-0004-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Christianity Rediscoveredby Vincent J. DonovanISBN 0883440962 (0-88344-096-2)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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City of Golden Shadowby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777100 (0-88677-710-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Cleopatra's Sisterby Penelope LivelyISBN 156895039X (1-56895-039-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Cocoa and Chaos in Ghanaby Gwendolyn MikellISBN 0882581538 (0-88258-153-8)
Softcover, Howard Univ Pr
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Collected Stories 1939-1976by Paul BowlesISBN 087685398X (0-87685-398-X)
Hardcover, Black Sparrow Press
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Collected Stories of Paul Bowles, 1939-1976by Paul Bowles, Gore VidalISBN 0876853971 (0-87685-397-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of Paul Bowles, 1939-1976'Book summary:In these hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment and vengeance, extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God has no power there; a husband abandons his wife as they honeymoon in the South American jungle; a splash of water triggers an explosion of violence; and a boy's drug-induced transformation leads to cruelty enjoyed and suffered. Masterfully written, these are chilling tales from sun-drenched and brutal climes. [via]
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The Conquest Of Moroccoby Douglas PorchISBN 088064057X (0-88064-057-X)
Softcover, Fromm Intl
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890366 (0-922890-36-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Crucible of War: Western Desert, 1941by Barrie PittISBN 1557782326 (1-55778-232-6)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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David Livingstone: Missionary and Explorerby Sam WellmanISBN 1557487308 (1-55748-730-8)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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Days: Tangier Journal, 1987-1989by Paul BowlesISBN 0880012692 (0-88001-269-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Dead Men Don't Leave Tip: Adventures X Africaby Brandon WilsonISBN 0977053644 (0-9770536-4-4)
Softcover, Ailgrims Tales Inc
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The Egyptian Book of the Deadby E.A. Wallis BudgeISBN 1425357334 (1-4253-5733-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voices from Imhotep to Akhenatenby Molefi Kete AsanteISBN 0913543667 (0-913543-66-7)
Softcover, African Amer Images
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voices from Imhotep to Akhenaten'Book summary:Since the 18th century, Greece has been heralded as the cradle of Western civilization, with Plato, Pythagoras, and Thales touted as the world's first philosophers. But as Temple University scholar Molefi Kete Asante writes in this slim, spectacular book, those men all studied in ancient Egypt and took credit for the concepts created by Imhotep, Ahmenhotep, Akhenaton, and other Egyptian intellectuals, scientists, theologians, and moralists. Asante, the major proponent of the concept of Afrocentricity, draws from a number of primary sources to reveal what he claims to be the true origins of medicine, astronomy, ethics, scientific inquiry, and civics. "The antiquity of African philosophy is unique and stands alone and is older than all other philosophies," Asante writes. "It would be much later, nearly two thousand years, before the Greeks, who were influenced by the Egyptians, would develop their philosophy."
From 2700 to 1290 B.C., the Egyptians were the light of the ancient world. They produced many early medical instruments, designed the world's first step pyramid, and laid the empirical groundwork for scientific reasoning. Akhenaton, the rebel pharaoh, is even cited as "the Father of Monotheism." Asante stresses throughout the book that these developments came from a confluence of African cultures, and not from other parts of the world. "The practice of the African philosophers along the Nile was a practice of maintaining Maat [the principle of truth, order, and justice] in every aspect of life," he writes. "If we could only learn from them the value of harmony, balance, and righteousness, we would be on our way toward a revival of the spirit of human victory." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Elephantsby James R. Rothaus, John WexoISBN 0886822262 (0-88682-226-2)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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Elephantsby John WexoISBN 0937934003 (0-937934-00-3)
Softcover, Zoobooks/Wildlife Education
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Escape from the Slave Tradersby Dave Jackson, Neta JacksonISBN 155661263X (1-55661-263-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americasby Robert F. ThompsonISBN 0945802137 (0-945802-13-7)
Softcover, Museum for African Art
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Fools and Other Storiesby Njabulo NdebeleISBN 0930523202 (0-930523-20-2)
Softcover, Readers Intl
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The Gardens of Lightby Amin Maalouf, Dorothy S. BlairISBN 1566562481 (1-56656-248-1)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gardens of Light'Book summary:The Gardens of Light tells the life story of Mani, painter, doctor, and prophet born in Mesopotamia--modern day Iraq--in the early third century of the Christian era. He advocated "The Gospel of Light"-a religious system that was a mixture of Gnostic Christian beliefs, ancient Persian Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and some pagan elements. This came to be known as Manichaeism and attracted vast numbers of disciples. The mystic exercised a powerful attraction over his disciples-rulers and scholars, itinerant merchants, shippers, Baptists and sages who inhabited the shores of the Tigris-and was hated by the Magi, the high priests of Zoroastrianism who felt threatened and eventually had him imprisoned, tortured, and killed in 276 AD. Amin Maalouf brings life and color to the character and times of Mani. In the pages of The Gardens of Light, Mani's cry for tolerance can be heard echoing across the centuries of our times. [via]
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Giftsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 1559704845 (1-55970-484-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gifts'Book summary:Though he has lived in exile for the last 20 years, Nuruddin Farah's eye never strays far from his native Somalia. In Maps and Secrets, the first and third volumes in his Blood in the Sun trilogy, he explored the devastating effects of tribal hatred and civil war on his society; the middle volume, Gifts, however, is of a different stripe altogether. Though also set in Somalia, it is a sunnier, more optimistic novel, and a love story, to boot. The protagonist is Duniya, a nurse at a maternity hospital in Mogadishu. Once widowed and once divorced, she has experienced the injustices heaped upon women in her culture--as a young girl Duniya was given by her father to an elderly man to be his wife; after his death she remarried, only to have her child taken from her by her alcoholic husband's family when they divorced. Free at last, she has no intentions of getting entangled again--until she meets Bosaaso, an American-educated economist who has returned to Somalia to help his country during its economic crisis:
Duniya thought that marriage was a place she had been to twice already, but love was a palace she hadn't had the opportunity to set foot in before now. If what she and Bosaaso were doing was the beginning of a long courtship that might eventually lead to such a many-roomed mansion of love, so be it. So far she had only seen glimpses of it, in a rear-view mirror, in the eyes of a driver who wasn't a taxi driver.
But love is not all Nuruddin has on his mind. He constantly reexamines the theme of gifts, from the personal gifting of one's body or heart to the impersonal "aid" bestowed by wealthy nations upon the poorer ones. But Gifts is hardly a political tract, for it consistently eschews the general in favor of the particular. In tracing Duniya's budding relationship with Bosaaso, Nuruddin not only tells the love story of two individuals but also etches a remarkable portrait of women in Somalia. The relationship between Duniya and Bosaaso is sweet, funny, and tender, but it is in her ties to her women friends and daughters that the book shines. As she learns to swim and drive, to stand up to her overbearing former in-laws and to trust her heart, it is within the context of an extended web of friends and family. Maps and Secrets expose the uglier aspects of war-torn Somalia; Gifts, on the other hand, offers its hidden strengths. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Gifts:
The Gravity of Sunlightby Rosa ShandISBN 1569472408 (1-56947-240-8)
Softcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachingsby Yaya Diallo, Mitchell HallISBN 0892812567 (0-89281-256-7)
Softcover, Destiny Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachings'Book summary:The Healing Drum traces the extraordinary cultural legacy of the Minianka tribe of West Africa, for whom music serves a sacred, healing function for the individual and society. The authors explore the Minianka view of humanity, music, and the cosmos relative to work, celebration, herbal medicine, dance, trance, initiation, and death.
The first book of its kind, delivering a message of untapped wisdom and power from a little-known culture through the universal medium of music. [via]
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Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africaby Frank McLynnISBN 088184926X (0-88184-926-X)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 1567312160 (1-56731-216-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Arab Peoples'Book summary:Hourani, the distinguished historian and interpreter, has written a masterwork--a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture. He looks at all sides of this rich civilization: the education, the science, the mosques, the Alhambra, as well as the conflicts, poverty, and role of women. 40 halftones; 13 maps. [via]
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Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuitsby Laila LalamiISBN 1565124936 (1-56512-493-6)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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Hottentot Venusby Barbara Chase-RiboudISBN 1400032083 (1-4000-3208-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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I Write What I Like: A Selection of His Writingsby Steve Biko, Aelred StubbsISBN 0906097495 (0-906097-49-5)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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Journey into Russiaby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 0933280254 (0-933280-25-4)
Softcover, Island Pr
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Kahawaby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0892965339 (0-89296-533-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kahawa'Book summary:This 1981 Westlake gem is back in print. A mile-long freight train steams through the heart of Idi Amin's mad, tortured, magical, and corrupt Uganda, loaded down with kahawa (Swahili for coffee). What Amin doesn't know, what his most beautiful spy has not been able to wring out of her latest victim, and what the world's coffee markets may be unable to swallow, is that the train and six million dollars worth of coffee are about to disappear into the hands of a conflicted, colorful, swashbuckling band of mercenaries and moneymakers.
"Kahawa is such a splendid huggermugger that if you don't like it, there's something wrong with you.... No reader that I will ever want to meet should dare complain." --The New York Times [via]
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The Masked Rider: Cycling In West Africaby Neil PeartISBN 1550226657 (1-55022-665-7)
Softcover, E C W Pr
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Mountain of Black Glassby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886778492 (0-88677-849-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountain of Black Glass'Book summary:Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.
An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.
"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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My Heart Is Africa: A Flying Adventureby Scott GriffinISBN 088784748X (0-88784-748-X)
Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1414226047 (1-4142-2604-7)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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No Sweetness Here and Other Storiesby Ama Ata AidooISBN 1558611193 (1-55861-119-3)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Otherlandby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777631 (0-88677-763-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherland'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDSby Deborah EllisISBN 1550419129 (1-55041-912-9)
Softcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
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Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representationby Christopher B. Steiner, Roy Richard GrinkerISBN 1557866864 (1-55786-686-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Pillar of Saltby Albert MemmiISBN 0879559055 (0-87955-905-5)
Softcover, Criterion Books
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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines And the Secret Mission of 1805by Richard ZacksISBN 140130849X (1-4013-0849-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government and sent Eaton off without proper national support. Short on supplies, given very little money and only a few men, Eaton and his mission seemed doomed from the start. He triumphed against all odds, recruited a band of European mercenaries in Alexandria, and led them on a march across the Libyan Desert. Once in Tripoli, the ragtag army defeated the local troops and successfully captured Derne, laying the groundwork for the demise of the Barbary Pirates. Now, Richard Zacks brings this important story of America's first overseas covert op to life.
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Points in Time: Tales from Moroccoby Paul BowlesISBN 0880011173 (0-88001-117-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojournby Mike TidwellISBN 155821447X (1-55821-447-X)
Softcover, Lyons Pr
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Problems In African History: The Precolonial Centuriesby Robert O. CollinsISBN 1558763600 (1-55876-360-0)
Softcover, Markus Wiener Pub
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Quest for the Lost Princeby Dave Jackson, Neta Jackson, Julian JacksonISBN 1556614721 (1-55661-472-1)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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River of Blue Fireby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777771 (0-88677-777-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of Blue Fire'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Road to Kilimanjaroby Ruth T. ShafferISBN 0961529725 (0-9615297-2-5)
Softcover, Four Corners Press
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Sea of Silver Lightby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886779774 (0-88677-977-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea of Silver Light'Book summary:With Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams completes his massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever.
Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that Sea of Silver Light ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Somalia on $5 a Day: A Soldier's Storyby Marty StantonISBN 0891418229 (0-89141-822-9)
Softcover, Presidio Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Somalia on $5 a Day: A Soldier's Story'Book summary:Stantons battalion was the first army unit in Somalia in 1992 and it did one hell of a job accomplishing a difficult mission where there wasnt a template. I had the pleasure of tagging along with his unit and saw first-hand how its leaders dealt with and solved problems. . . . A first-rate book and a must read. All professional soldier-leaders should carry Stantons book in their rucksacks.
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A country torn by seemingly endless war, a people tormented and victimized by relentless banditry-into this land of warlords came the soldiers of the armys elite 10th Mountain Division. They were strangers in a strange land sent to restore hope to this cauldron of misery and despair. The Pentagon deemed it a hostile fire zone thereby earning each soldier a monthly bonus of $150 Somalia on $5.00 a day. Major Stanton and the infantrymen of Task Force 2-87 found themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, trying to accomplish a vague and constantly changing mission where knowing the good guys from the bad guys was nearly impossible. When the focus of Restore Hope changed from limited famine relief to nation building, the men found themselves in armed clashes with Somali warlords. In this exciting and often humorous memoir, Stanton relates the mounting frustrations experienced by the U.S. soldiers, futility that culminated in the infamous chaos on the streets of Mogadishu. [via]More editions of Somalia on $5 a Day: A Soldier's Story:
Somalia on Five Dollars a Day: A Soldier's Storyby Martin StantonISBN 0891417419 (0-89141-741-9)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africaby Tanya ShafferISBN 1400032598 (1-4000-3259-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Son of Tarzanby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1414252447 (1-4142-5244-7)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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Sundiata: A Legend of Africaby Will EisnerISBN 1561633321 (1-56163-332-1)
Hardcover, NBM Publishing Company
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Sword and Scalpelby Lorry LutzISBN 0939497212 (0-939497-21-2)
Softcover, Promise Pub Co
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Taste of Africaby Dorinda HafnerISBN 0898156602 (0-89815-660-2)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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A Thesaurus of African Languages, a Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa: With an Appendix on Their Written Represenby Michael Mann, David DalbyISBN 0905450248 (0-905450-24-8)
Hardcover, Walter De Gruyter Inc
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This Blinding Absence of Lightby Linda Coverdale, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 1565847237 (1-56584-723-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Traveller's History of North Africaby Barnaby Rogerson, Denis JuddISBN 156656252X (1-56656-252-X)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutahby Tim Mackintosh-SmithISBN 1566492475 (1-56649-247-5)
Hardcover, Welcome Rain Publishers
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Travels with a Tangerine is subtitled A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, and finds Mackintosh-Smith utilising his impressive knowledge of Arabic studies in a fascinating journey to find the real Arabia. For the past 17 years (when not travelling), he has lived in the Yemeni capital San'a, and this invaluable background has made him the perfect guide to the exotic landscapes of Arabia. Here, the author travels in the footsteps of a ghost. Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, setting out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. His journey took 29 years, and he visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance that Marco Polo covered. Mackintosh-Smith set out to write a "trailer" or continuation of the original writings, and this utterly fascinating book covers the first stage in the Moroccan's bizarre and dangerous journey (brigands were only one of the dangers he faced). The destinations include a quaint Islamic Butlin's in the Egyptian desert, the shores of the Cimmerian Bosphoros and some of the most impressive cities of medieval Islam. All the details of his journey are conjured up with maximum vividness, from buffalo milk puddings and fishbone houses to the legendary dancing dervishes. The writing, always spare and elegant, makes this a highly compelling read for either the adventurer or the armchair traveller. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Travels With Myself and Anotherby Martha GellhornISBN 0907871356 (0-907871-35-6)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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A Treasury of African Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Myths, Legends, Epics, Tales, Recollections, Wisdom, Sayings, and Humor of Africaby Harold CourlanderISBN 1569248168 (1-56924-816-8)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings, and Humor of Peoples of African Descent inby Harold CourlanderISBN 1569248117 (1-56924-811-7)
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The Trouble With Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Workingby Robert CaldersiISBN 1403971250 (1-4039-7125-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Tsotsiby Athol FugardISBN 094993772X (0-949937-72-X)
Hardcover, Ad. Donker
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The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabweby Dervla MurphyISBN 0879516712 (0-87951-671-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 1568493215 (1-56849-321-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Waiting for the Rainby Charles MungoshiISBN 0949932027 (0-949932-02-7)
Softcover, Zimbabwe Pub House
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The World in Your Kitchen: Vegetarian Recipes from Africa, Asia and Latin America for Western Kitchens With Country Information and Food Factsby Troth WellsISBN 0895945770 (0-89594-577-0)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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