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

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

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

By: Cook, Joel

Price: $75.00

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

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 narrated by the djeli, traditional keepers of the history of ruling families of the kingdoms that once flourished in the Wester... View more info

Morocco: Its People and Places

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

Price: $35.00

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

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 of surprises, as Marq de Villiers reveals in his brilliant and evocative biography of the land and its people. If you travel... View more info

The Country of the Dwarfs

By: Du Chaillu, Paul

Price: $15.00

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

Chronicles of an African Trip

By: Eastman, George

Price: $30.00

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 the 24th of October, 1926. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll ... View more info

Chronicles of an African Trip

By: Eastman, George

Price: $30.00

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 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Th... View more info

Chronicles of an African Trip

By: Eastman, George

Price: $30.00

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, 1926. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to br... View more info

Chronicles of a Second African Trip

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

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, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture fil... View more info

Chronicles of a Second African Trip

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

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 by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Eastman (July 12,... View more info

Chronicles of a Second African Trip

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: 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 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... View more info

Umbundu: Folk Tales from Angola

By: Ennis, Merlin; Lord, Albert

Price: $35.00

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 tone, pace and frank detail. There is a mine of fresh material in these stories of magic and bizarre adventure, with special ... View more info

In the Shadow of Man

By: Goodall, Jane; Wrangham, Richard

Price: $9.00

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. Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she set up camp in the remote Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanza... View more info

Africa Dances: A Book About West African Negroes

By: Gorer, Geoffrey

Price: $30.00

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 Christian missionaries undermine indigenous morality. Wickedly scornful of French rule, and the creator of outrageous portra... View more info

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

By: Hartley, Aidan

Price: $5.00

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 cultures over the enduring course of British colonialism in Africa that defined them both.Keywords: ZANZIBAR CHEST A STORY OF LIFE... 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

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 equatorial Africa, focusing primarily on the exploits of Henry Stanley, who is arguably the most notable 19th century explorer of the ... View more info

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

By: Hoagland, Edward

Price: $5.00

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

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: $75.00

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 travelogue of the adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson, primarily in Africa and the South Seas. View more info

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By: Lessing, Doris

Price: $12.50

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 evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals in the bush to ... 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

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 of a number of 1858 printings of this work. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Doctor David Livingstone (19 March 1813–1 May 1873) was a Scot... View more info

Under the Neem Tree

By: Lowerre, Susan

Price: $12.00

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 to to grow fish in the Sahel, a land dying of thirst.Keywords: SUSAN LOWERRE UNDER NEEM TREE AFRICA AFRICAN WALLI JALLA ADVE... View more info

The Tree Where Man Was Born; The African Experience

By: Matthiessen, Peter; Porter, Eliot

Price: $10.00

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; the breathtaking landscapes; the area's turbulent natural, political, and social histories; the adventures of the field biol... View more info

In the Land of Mosques and Minarets

By: Miltoun, Francis

Price: $75.00

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

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 its identity. His is social commentary at its best. View more info

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

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2281659

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. View more info

Three Boy Scouts in Africa: On Safari with Martin Johnson - School Edition

By: Oliver, Robert Dick; Martin, David R.; Oliver, Douglas L.; Bocquin, Clare B.; West, James E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1929

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2281657

Condition: Near Fine

School edition. Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper, spine a bit faded. 1929 Hard Cover. 215, [1] pp. 8vo. A school edition of the account of an African safari with popular adventurer and author Martin Johnson. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Edited, with an introduction, by Clare B. Bocquin of the Lincoln School of Teachers College in New York, with a preface by Chief Scout Executive James E. West. View more info

The Remarkable Baobab

By: Pakenham, Thomas

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2202522

ISBN: 0297843737

Condition: Near Fine

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 European explorers, the news of the baobab had astonished the world of science, due to its stupendous size (twice the girth of an... View more info

African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist

By: Roosevelt, Theodore

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1910

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2291428

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... View more info