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By: N/A
Price: $35.00
Publisher: A.C. Armstrong and Son: 1895
Seller ID: 2202686
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. View more info
By: Brooks, Paul
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1951119
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Owner bookplate on half-title page, jacket price clipped, jacket toned, jacket edges rubbed with some loss along top edge. 1964 Hard Cover. xiii, 259, [1] pp. 8vo. The thirty-third book to win the John Burroughs Medal for excellence in natural history. The adventures of a man and wife in the American wilderness and other remote places, from the Alaskan tundra to the game reserves of East Africa. View more info
By: Courlander, Harold; Sako, Ousmane
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Crown: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202562
First edition. Page ridges lightly foxed.Jacket lightly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. vii, 178 pp. The heroic legends decribed here, re-create the events and annals of the kingdom of Segu and of the Bambara tribe that formed a series of important city-states along the Niger River during the 17th century. The deeds of kings, the exploits of warriors, the sorcery of magicians, and battles against invaders are among the subjects addressed. The stories, transmitted orally, were na... View more info
By: Crowther, Geoff
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Lonely Planet: 1980
Seller ID: 2119146
Spine lightly creased, wrappers faded. 1980 Trade Paperback. A travel-guide for affordable vacations to Africa. Includes information on visiting each country, with hotel recommendations and more. View more info
By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Rollin-Tilton, C.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1882
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2150497
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. View more info
By: de Flers, Pauline; de Flers, Philippe
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Konemann: 2000
Seller ID: 2201187
Near fine.Near Fine. 2000 Large Hardcover. 238 pp. The first part of the book takes us on a tour of the range of oases that stretches from north to south; remote and mythical Siwa, watching over the temple of the oracle consulted by Alexander the Great; black Baharya, rich from the gold of its mummies; white Farafra, a checkerboard of canals and green fields on the border of the ghostly White Desert; ancient Dakhla, gateway to the desert, seat of the government of the 6t... View more info
By: de Villiers, Marq; Hirtle, Sheila
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Walker & Company: 2002
Seller ID: 2201193
General light wear. 2002 Trade Paperback. 326 pp. In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of dunes and gravel plains, and at certain times waterfalls cascade from their peaks. Even the sand amazes: massive dunes can appear almost overnight, and be gone just as quickly. We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere desert on Earth--yet it is full... View more info
By: Dinesen, Isak [von Blixen-Finecke, Karen]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Random House: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269855
First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, front hinge just starting, ink initials and date on front endpaper. 1938 Hard Cover. ix, [1], 389, [1] pp. 8vo. With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. View more info
By: Du Chaillu, Paul
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York: 1876
Seller ID: 1670858
Binding repaired, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1876 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 314 pp., [4] publisher catalog. Green cloth, gilt titles & decoration. Numerous engravings. An account of the author's travels in Africa, by which he encountered the peoples we now refer to as pygmies. Du Chaillu became famous as the first European to confirm their existence, and also that of African gorillas. View more info
By: Du Chaillu, Paul
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers: 1868
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2174951
1872 printing. Boards faded, some wear to corners. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 231, 6 pp. 8vo. Engraved illustrations throughout. Tales of African adventures, written for young readers. View more info
By: Eastman, George
Price: $30.00
Publisher: John P. Smith Company, Inc.: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201377
First edition. Lightly rubbed and toned, faint stain on front flyleaf. 1927 Hard Cover. 87 pp., plus numerous unpaginated full-page photographs. 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 th... View more info
By: Eastman, George
Price: $30.00
Publisher: John P. Smith Company, Inc.: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201378
First edition. 1927 Hard Cover. 87 pp., plus numerous unpaginated full-page photographs. 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 -... View more info
By: Eastman, George
Price: $30.00
Publisher: John P. Smith Company, Inc.: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275481
Related articles laid in, small spot on rear board. 1927 Hard Cover. 87 pp., plus numerous unpaginated full-page photographs. 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, ... View more info
By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201442
First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. 1987 Hard Cover. xxv, 89 pp. 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,... View more info
By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203611
First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. University of Rochester bookplate on front flyleaf reads 'In Celebration of Janis F. and James S. Gleason upon Receiving the Outstanding Philanthropist Award, National Philanthropy Day, November 18, 2003'. 1987 Hard Cover. xxv, 89 pp. 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 ... View more info
By: Ennis, Merlin; Lord, Albert
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Beacon Press: 1962
Seller ID: 2203603
Very GoodJacket rubbed, quarter-inch chip to top edge of jacket front. 1962 Hard Cover. xxix, 316 pp. In the middle of the wild bush country of West Africa live the Ovimbundu of Angola. For generations the transmission of their culture has been by word-of-mouth through the art of tribal storytellers. Now for the first time an American who lived among them for almost 40 years has translated and written down these tales and legends from the Umbundu, without altering their ... View more info
By: Goodall, Jane; Wrangham, Richard
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Mariner Books: 2000
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2261800
Ink note on half-title page. 2000 Trade Paperback. xxx, 302 pp. World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall’s account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in the wild might shed light on the behavior of our closest living relatives. Acco... View more info
By: Gorer, Geoffrey
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202785
First edition. No jacket, boards and pages toned, page ridges lightly foxed. 1935 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 337 pp. [viii] Includes black-and-white photographs. Originally published in 1935, Africa Dances takes the reader on an odyssey across West Africa, in the company of one of the great black ballet stars of 1930s Paris (Feral Benga). It's a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown to be destroying African society while... View more info
By: Hartley, Aidan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books: 2004
Seller ID: 2200420
Wrappers rubbed, ink name on front endpaper, pages toned. 2004 Trade Paperback. 479 pp. Hartley, an acclaimed frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of his own family's 150-year-colonial legacy in Africa. A beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid young men cut down in their prime, of forbidden love and its fatal consequences, and of family and history. and the collision of culture... View more info
By: Headley, J.T.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hubbard Bros.: 1878
Seller ID: 2207595
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 equatoria... View more info
By: Hoagland, Edward
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Random House: 1979
Seller ID: 2203669
Ink note to front endpaper, small stain to top page ridge.Jacket toned. 1979 Hard Cover. xii, 239 pp. An acclaimed travel and nature writer recounts his experiences during four months in the Sudan, sharing his keen responses to the land itself and to the grinding poverty of the tiny towns.Keywords: EDWARD HOAGLAND AFRICAN CALLIOPE JOURNEY TO SUDAN ADVENTURE AFRICA TRAVEL BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY View more info
By: Johnson, Osa
Price: $95.00
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company: 1940
Seller ID: 1805885
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. View more info
By: Lake, Alexander
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1659141
First edition. Includes original jacket. Jacket rubbed with small chip from spine base. 1954 Hard Cover. 254 pp. True stories from a legendary big-game hunter. View more info
By: Lessing, Doris
Price: $12.50
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1992
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2202694
First U.S. edition. Page ridges toned and foxed.Jacket lightly toned. 1992 Hard Cover. 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 evok... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers: 1858
Seller ID: 2020907
All maps and engravings included. Minor loss from spine head, ink owner stamp on front endpaper, front & end matter a bit foxed. 1858 Hard Cover. xxiv, 732 pp. 4-page terminal publisher ad. 8vo. Original brown blind-stamped boards, gilt titles, two fold-out map follows text, single fold-out map in text, engravings throughout text (including a tsetse fly on the title page, included because Livingstone discovered it, and linked it to the spread of disease in cattle). One o... View more info
By: Lowerre, Susan
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Permanent Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202543
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... View more info
By: Matthiessen, Peter; Porter, Eliot
Price: $10.00
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1972
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2260899
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;... View more info
By: Morris, Charles
Price: $30.00
Publisher: W.E. Scull: 1910
Seller ID: 2273803
No jacket, top page ridge lightly foxed. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 424 pp. CONTENTS: Early Life Battles and Victorious Public Career; The Roosevelt Policies: Battles that Theodore Roosevelt Has Waged and the Principles He Stands For; The African Trip and Big Game: Conflicts with Wild Beasts on the Roosevelt-Smithsonian Hunting Expedition; The New World's Champion in the Old World: His Receptions by Foreign Sovereigns and Peoples ... View more info
By: Naipaul, Shiva
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1979
Seller ID: 1537440
Wrappers rubbed, pages toned, ink underlining & marginalia throughout. 1979 Trade Paperback. 352 pp. Travel narrative in the classic tradition of Graham Greene, North of South is brilliant, comic, controversial, a scathing and intimate documentary on Africa and its people today. As he travels though Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, novelist Shiva Naipaul discovers the exotic desolation and romance, the bitter tensions and failed dreams of a fractured continent in search of it... View more info
By: Pakenham, Thomas
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202522
First edition. No copyright date. A fine copy.Fine. 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 Euro... View more info
