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

By: N/A

Price: $35.00  $28.00

Publisher: A.C. Armstrong and Son: 1895

Seller ID: 2202686

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. View more info

The Tomb of Tutankhamen

By: Carter, Howard

Price: $7.00  $5.60

Publisher: Excalibur: 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2285036

ISBN: 052570101X

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor tear to front jacket panel. 1972 Hard Cover. 236 pp. The leader of the excavation offers a firsthand description of the remarkable events surrounding the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt's Valley of Kings and of the unique and priceless treasures that were found there. Howard Carter did not live long enough to write further about his finds, and The Tomb of Tutankhamen stands as his only record of the extraordinary discovery. Abridge... View more info

The Mediterranean and Its Borderlands, in Two Volumes: Western Countries; Eastern Countries

By: Cook, Joel

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: The John C. Winston Co.: 1910

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2287167

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 609, [3]; 648 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, elaborate gilt decorations, gilt titles and top edges. Photographic plates with captioned tissue guards throughout. A descriptive guide to the various countries along the Mediterranean Sea. View more info

The Heart of the Ngoni: Heroes of the African Kingdom of Segu

By: Courlander, Harold; Sako, Ousmane

Price: $10.00  $8.00

Publisher: Crown: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2202562

ISBN: 051754637X

Condition: Very Good

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

Africa on the Cheap

By: Crowther, Geoff

Price: $7.00  $5.60

Publisher: Lonely Planet: 1980

Seller ID: 2119146

ISBN: 0908086199

Condition: Very Good

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

Morocco: Its People and Places

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

Price: $35.00  $28.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1882

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2150497

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. View more info

Sahara: The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert

By: de Villiers, Marq; Hirtle, Sheila

Price: $5.00  $4.00

Publisher: Walker & Company: 2002

Seller ID: 2201193

ISBN: 0802776787

Condition: Very Good

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

The Country of the Dwarfs

By: Du Chaillu, Paul

Price: $15.00  $12.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York: 1876

Seller ID: 1670858

Condition: Good

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

Wild Life Under the Equator. Narrated for Young People.

By: Du Chaillu, Paul

Price: $35.00  $28.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers: 1868

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2174951

Condition: Very Good

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

Chronicles of an African Trip

By: Eastman, George

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: John P. Smith Company, Inc.: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2201377

Condition: Very Good

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

Chronicles of an African Trip

By: Eastman, George

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: John P. Smith Company, Inc.: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2201378

Condition: Near Fine

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

Chronicles of an African Trip

By: Eastman, George

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: John P. Smith Company, Inc.: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2275481

Condition: Very Good

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

Chronicles of a Second African Trip

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

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2201442

Condition: Near Fine

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

Chronicles of a Second African Trip

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

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2203611

Condition: Near Fine

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

Chronicles of a Second African Trip

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

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2278774

ISBN: 0961082410

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 t... View more info

Umbundu: Folk Tales from Angola

By: Ennis, Merlin; Lord, Albert

Price: $35.00  $28.00

Publisher: Beacon Press: 1962

Seller ID: 2203603

Condition: Very Good

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

In the Shadow of Man

By: Goodall, Jane; Wrangham, Richard

Price: $9.00  $7.20

Publisher: Mariner Books: 2000

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2261800

ISBN: 0547334168

Condition: Near Fine

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

Africa Dances: A Book About West African Negroes

By: Gorer, Geoffrey

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1935

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2202785

Condition: Very Good

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

Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands

By: Hartley, Aidan

Price: $5.00  $4.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: 2004

Seller ID: 2200420

ISBN: 1594480117

Condition: Good

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

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: $45.00  $36.00

Publisher: Hubbard Bros.: 1878

Seller ID: 2207595

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 equatoria... View more info

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

By: Hoagland, Edward

Price: $5.00  $4.00

Publisher: Random House: 1979

Seller ID: 2203669

ISBN: 0394504186

Condition: Very Good

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

I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson

By: Johnson, Osa

Price: $95.00  $76.00

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company: 1940

Seller ID: 1805885

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. View more info

I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson

By: Johnson, Osa

Price: $125.00  $100.00

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company: 1940

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2283091

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly foxed and toned (as usual). 1940 Hard Cover. 376 pp. 8 5/8 x 6. Zebra cloth, photographic endpapers. 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

I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson

By: Johnson, Osa

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: Halcyon House: 1942

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2283932

Condition: Very Good

Reissue. Very good hardcover in fair jacket. Ink stamp and sticker removal mark on front endpaper, jacket edges heavily rubbed with several tears and chips, extensive repairs with clear tape (now toned) on jacket reverse. 1942 Hard Cover. 376 pp. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8. Original zebra striped cloth. 83 aquatone illustrations, including photographs featuring George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, American author Jack London, and film star Charlie Chaplin. A documentary tra... View more info

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By: Lessing, Doris

Price: $12.50  $10.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 1992

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 2202694

Condition: Very Good

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

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast, Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.

By: Livingstone, David

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers: 1858

Seller ID: 2020907

Condition: Very Good

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

Under the Neem Tree

By: Lowerre, Susan

Price: $12.00  $9.60

Publisher: Permanent Press: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2202543

ISBN: 1877946036

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... View more info

The Tree Where Man Was Born; The African Experience

By: Matthiessen, Peter; Porter, Eliot

Price: $10.00  $8.00

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

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 2260899

ISBN: 0525222650

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;... View more info

In the Land of Mosques and Minarets

By: Miltoun, Francis

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: L.C. Page & Company: 1908

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2286946

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. View more info

North of South : An African Journey

By: Naipaul, Shiva

Price: $5.00  $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1979

Seller ID: 1537440

Condition: Good

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