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The Story of the Life of Mackay of Uganda, Told for Boys by His Sister

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, A.C. Armstrong and Son: 1895

Seller ID: 2202686

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Minor staining to edges, spine cocked, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor foxing to pages, minor pencil marginalia. No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 1895 Hard Cover. vii, 338 pp. This book is written especially for boys, in the hope that Mackay's example may lead many of them to think of Africa, and devote their lives to its moral and spiritual regeneration.
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Cairo (Egypt) (American Red Cross Tours)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cairo, Barbey's Press:

Seller ID: 2305286

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Very faint surface tears on rear wrapper. Unpaginated. Orange wrappers with minaret illustration. The following places are visited: Pyramids and Sphinx; Memphis and Sakkara; Mosques and Citadel; Old Ciairo; Anderson Museum and Mosque of Ibn Tulun; El Azhar University and the Tombs of the Kalifs.
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A Pocket Guide to Egypt

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., War and Navy Departments: 1943

Seller ID: 2305287

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

An excellent copy. 1943 Stapled Binding. 57 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Money; Currency Table; Paper Notes; Weights and Measures; Calendar and Time; Check List of Do's and Don'ts; Hints on Pronouncing Arabic; List of Most Useful Words and Phrases; Additional Words and Phrases.
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Glimpses of Foreign Lands and People

By: Chapin, William Wisner

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick H. Hitchcock: 1926

Seller ID: 2263617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Special edition limited to 500 copies. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Small abrasion to base of rear board. 1926 Hard Cover. x, [2], [895]-996, 1047-1070, [1]-101, [3] pp. William Wisner Chapin produced 130 hand-colored lantern slides of Korea that are housed in the permanent collection of George Eastman House. These were used to illustrated his National Geographic Magazine article, 'Glimpses of Korea and China,' published in November 1910. Both the lantern slides and the article were products of Chapin's 1909 world tour.
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Morocco: Its People and Places

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Rollin-Tilton, C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1882

Seller ID: 2150497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. A bit musty, ink name & date partially crossed out on front flyleaf. 1882 Hard Cover. v, 374, [2] pp. 8vo. A 19th century overview of Morocco and its citizens, with illustrations throughout text.
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Chronicles of an African Trip

By: Eastman, George

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Rochester, N.Y., John P. Smith Company, Inc.: 1927

Seller ID: 2295378

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Binding repaired, corners exposed. 1927 Hard Cover. 87, [1] pp., plus numerous unpaginated full-page photographs. 8vo. Original beige cloth spine over paper covered boards, paper title label. The following letters chronicle the adventures of a party -- consisting of Daniel E. Pomeroy, of New York, Dr. Audley D. Stewart, of Rochester, and the writer -- which left New York on the 13th of March, 1926. Stewart and Eastman returned to Rochester on the 24th of October, 1926. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring pho...
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Chronicles of a Second African Trip

By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rochester, N.Y., The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987

Seller ID: 2278774

ISBN: 0961082410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1987 Hard Cover. xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first film...
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Image for The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers. Comprising All the Late and Really Great Achievements Won in the Exploration of the Vast Unknown Region of Equatorial Africa; Chief among which Are the Finding of the Lost Livingstone by Stanley, the Explorations of the Great Lakes, the Wonderful Experiences of Sir Samuel W. Baker, in his Remarkable Expedition, with a Small Army, under Royal Authority, to the Central Lake Region by Way of the Nile; the Discoveries of Lieut. Cameron in His Memorable, Overland Journey across the Entire Continent from East to West; and the Crowning Triumph of All, Won by the Daring and Intrepid Stanley, in Facing a Thousand Perils by Savages, Cataracts, Disease, Wild Beasts, and Starvation, but by an Almost Superhuman Heroism, Forcing His Way Down the Dark River 2500 Miles, and Solving the Great Mystery by Proving Livingstone's Lualaba Verily the Headwaters of the Mighty Congo. And thus Opening a Grand Highway from the West Coast...

The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers. Comprising All the Late and Really Great Achievements Won in the Exploration of the Vast Unknown Region of Equatorial Africa; Chief among which Are the Finding of the Lost Livingstone by Stanley, the Explorations of the Great Lakes, the Wonderful Experiences of Sir Samuel W. Baker, in his Remarkable Expedition, with a Small Army, under Royal Authority, to the Central Lake Region by Way of the Nile; the Discoveries of Lieut. Cameron in His Memorable, Overland Journey across the Entire Continent from East to West; and the Crowning Triumph of All, Won by the Daring and Intrepid Stanley, in Facing a Thousand Perils by Savages, Cataracts, Disease, Wild Beasts, and Starvation, but by an Almost Superhuman Heroism, Forcing His Way Down the Dark River 2500 Miles, and Solving the Great Mystery by Proving Livingstone's Lualaba Verily the Headwaters of the Mighty Congo. And thus Opening a Grand Highway from the West Coast...

By: Headley, J.T.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Bros.: 1878

Seller ID: 2207595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fold-out map included. 2 inch split to spine along rear joint, front hinge just beginning to weaken, corners a bit rubbed, 1 inch chip from top corner of front flyleaf. 1878 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 605 pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece of Henry M. Stanley and dozens of illustrations throughout text. Fold-out map follows text, showing routes of Stanley, Cameron, and Livingstone. An account of various exploratory expeditions through equatorial Africa, focusing primarily on the exploits of Henry Stanley, who is arguably the most notable 19th century explorer of the ...
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I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson

By: Johnson, Osa

Price: $50.00

Publisher: ., J.B. Lippincott Company: 1940

Seller ID: 1805885

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Orange cloth spine over boards, not zebra-striped cover. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, ink stamp on title page. 1940 Hard Cover. 376 pp. 8 5/8 x 6. 83 illustrations, including photographs featuring George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, American author Jack London, and film star Charlie Chaplin. A documentary travelogue of the adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson, primarily in Africa and the South Seas.
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African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By: Lessing, Doris

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1992

Seller ID: 2202694

ISBN: 0060924330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First U.S. edition. Page ridges toned and foxed. Jacket lightly toned. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 442 pp.In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Z...
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Under the Neem Tree

By: Lowerre, Susan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Permanent Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2202543

ISBN: 1877946036

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Page ridges foxed, pages lightly toned. Jacket lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. ix, 255 pp. On the adjustment of a Peace Corps worker in northern Senegal. ...the story of a young American woman who finds herself in a desolate scrap of Moslem Africa--a Pulaar village along the river which marks the border between Senegal and Mauretenia. It is a stark reality she is totally unprepared for, with a job she is equally ill-quipped to handle: to teach the Senegalese to to grow fish in the Sahel, a land dying of thirst.
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The Tree Where Man Was Born; The African Experience

By: Matthiessen, Peter; Porter, Eliot

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 2260899

ISBN: 0525222650

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition (no price on jacket). Endpapers lightly foxed. 1972 Large Hardcover. 247 pp. In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking landscapes; the area's turbulent natural, political, and social histories; the adventures of the field biol...
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In the Land of Mosques and Minarets

By: Miltoun, Francis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page & Company: 1908

Seller ID: 2286946

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. A very nice copy. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 442 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Color frontispiece by Blanche McManus. With illustrations from drawings and paintings done by Blanche McManus. A travelogue of Mediterranean Africa.
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Image for Wonders of the Tropics; or, Explorations and Adventures by Henry M. Stanley and Other World-Renowned Travelers, Containing Thrilling Accounts of Famous Expeditions, Miraculous Escapes, Wild Sports of the Jungle, and Plain, Curious Customs of Savage Races, Journeys in Unknown Lands, and Marvelous Discoveries in the Wilds of Africa, together with Graphic Descriptions of Beautiful Scenery, Fertile Valleys, Vast Forests, Mighty Rivers and Cataracts, Inland Seas, Mines of Untold Wealth, Ferocious Beasts, Etc., Etc., the Whole Comprising a Vast Treasury of All That is Marvelous and Wonderful in the Dark Continent

Wonders of the Tropics; or, Explorations and Adventures by Henry M. Stanley and Other World-Renowned Travelers, Containing Thrilling Accounts of Famous Expeditions, Miraculous Escapes, Wild Sports of the Jungle, and Plain, Curious Customs of Savage Races, Journeys in Unknown Lands, and Marvelous Discoveries in the Wilds of Africa, together with Graphic Descriptions of Beautiful Scenery, Fertile Valleys, Vast Forests, Mighty Rivers and Cataracts, Inland Seas, Mines of Untold Wealth, Ferocious Beasts, Etc., Etc., the Whole Comprising a Vast Treasury of All That is Marvelous and Wonderful in the Dark Continent

By: Northrop, Henry Davenport

Price: $25.00

Publisher: ., S.N.: 1888

Seller ID: 2281659

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Possibly a pirated edition, with date and publisher conveniently illegible on copyright page (or a very worn printing plate was reused). Binding adequately repaired by previous owner, edges rubbed, a bit smoky, ink name on front endpaper. 1888 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 448 pp. 8vo. An account of the African adventures of Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone, illustrated with over 100 engravings throughout.
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Into Africa

By: Packer, Craig

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2102020

ISBN: 0226644294

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Review laid in. Owner sticker on front endpaper. 1994 Hard Cover. vii, 277 pp. 8vo. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal in 1995. Craig Packer takes us into Africa for a journey of fifty-two days in the fall of 1991. But this is more than a tour of magnificent animals in an exotic, faraway place. A field biologist since 1972, Packer began his work studying primates at Gombe and then the lions of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater with his wife and colleague Anne Pusey. Here, he introduces us to the real world of fieldworkinitiating assistants to lion research in the Serengeti...
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The Remarkable Baobab

By: Pakenham, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2004

Seller ID: 2202522

ISBN: 0297843737

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No copyright date. A fine copy. 2004 Hard Cover. 143 pp. Standing tall on the sunburnt plains of Africa and Australia, like great living giants, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet, and many of the specimens still standing today have been around for at least 2000 years. For centuries, the tree has provided food, medicine, shelter, places of refuge and worship and even served as prisons and tombs. Long before Africa was opened up by European explorers, the news of the baobab had astonished the world of science, due to its stupendous size (twice the girth of any tre...
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist

By: Roosevelt, Theodore

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1910

Seller ID: 2291428

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First thus (W.B. Conkey seal on copyright). Hinges loosening, edges rubbed, pencil gift note and ink date on front endpapers. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, 583 pp. Original olive cloth, gilt titles, safari scene on front board depicting a herd of elephants. One of two binding variants printed by Scribner's in 1910, this often referred to as the Subscriber's Edition, which contains many more illustrations than the simultaneously issued trade edition (over 200, versus 50). Illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and drawings by Philip R. Goodwin...
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist

By: Roosevelt, Theodore

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Syndicate Publishing Company: 1910

Seller ID: 2307405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light discoloration on rear board, board edges lightly rubbed, ink name on front flyleaf. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, 583 pp. Original beige cloth, paper labels on front board and spine. Appears to be a reissue of one of two binding variants printed by Scribner's in 1910, often referred to as the Subscriber's Edition, which contains many more illustrations than the simultaneously issued trade edition (over 200, versus 50), however an important point of distinction with this edition is the colorization of Goodwin's drawings (this was not done in the Scr...
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Jungle Ways

By: Seabrook, William B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York City, Blue Ribbon Books, Inc.: 1931

Seller ID: 2309425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper, one inch tear along top edge of pages 23-24. 1931 Hard Cover. 308 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs by author. In 1930, adventurer William Seabrook traveled through Africa including to places that were then French West Africa, but now form Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Guinea, Male, Bukina Faso, Niger and Togo. William Seabrook witnessed witchcraft, cannibalism and possibly human sacrifice. He came back with pictures to prove it. This book describes his adventures and experiences on a trip starting from Grand-Bassam in Ivory Coast, and wher...
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Yankee Girls in Zulu Land

By: Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Worthington Co.: 1888

Seller ID: 2201265

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Formerly loose gathering now repaired, faint pencil name on front flyleaf, very faint water stains and 1 x 3/4 inch bookseller sticker inside rear board. 1888 Hard Cover. 287 pp. A presentation of one woman's experience in Africa, with a strong focus on incorporating racial tensions.
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A Voice from the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes

By: Ward, Herbert

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1910

Seller ID: 2289597

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Boards a bit rubbed, 1 inch internal split to spine cloth, small dealer plate on front endpaper. 1910 Hard Cover. xvi, 330 pp. 8vo. Includes illustrations from photographs, sculpture, and drawings by the author. Ward participated in the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley, and this work and others established his artistic depictions of African life as authoritative examples. A Voice from the Congo is British adventurer Herbert Ward's equally sensational follow-up to his earlier Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. It is a more complete account of hi...
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