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King LeopoldS Ghost
by Adam Hochschild
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the...
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A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a book written by Ishmael Beah in 2007 about his experiences as a boy soldier.
Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972 she moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After that country’s civil war in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. Fuller received a B.A. from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming, where she still lives. She has two children.From the Hardcover edition.
The Scramble For Africa
by Thomas Pakenham
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, 'Civilization' and Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history.
In Darkest Africa
by Henry M Stanley
In Darkest Africa (1890) is Henry
M. Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. At the
turn of that century, the interior of the African continent was largely unknown
to the American and European public. With the accounts of great explorers like Stanley,
readers became thrilled by stories African expeditions and longed to follow in
the footsteps of these explorers. In 1888, Stanley led an expedition to come to
the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. The two volumes that compose In... Read more about this item
M. Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. At the
turn of that century, the interior of the African continent was largely unknown
to the American and European public. With the accounts of great explorers like Stanley,
readers became thrilled by stories African expeditions and longed to follow in
the footsteps of these explorers. In 1888, Stanley led an expedition to come to
the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. The two volumes that compose In... Read more about this item
The Boer War
by Thomas Pakenham
The war declared by the Boers of South Africa on October 11, 1899, gave the British, as Kipling said, 'No end of a lesson.' The public expected it to be over by Christmas. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and most humiliating war that Great Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch.
Dark Star Safari
by Paul Theroux
In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux’s reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, dugout canoe, “chicken bus,” and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful — and often life-threatening — landscapes on earth. This is travel as discovery and also, in...
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Kaffir Boy
by Mark Mathabane
When it comes to movie reviews, critic Violet Epps is a powerhouse voice. But that’s only because she’s learned to channel her literary hero Dorothy Parker, the most celebrated and scathing wit of the twentieth century. If only Violet could summon that kind of strength in her personal life. Violet visits the Algonquin Hotel in an attempt to find inspiration from the hallowed dining room where Dorothy Parker and so many other famous writers of the 1920s traded barbs, but she gets more...
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In the Footsteps Of Mr Kurtz
by Michela Wrong
Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population was pauperized, he plundered the country's copper and diamond resources, downing pink champagne in his jungle palace like some modern-day reincarnation of Joseph Conrad's crazed station manager.Michela Wrong, a correspondent...
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Conversations With Myself
by Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA was born in Transkei, South Africa on 18 July, 1918. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948 before being arrested in August 1962. In November 1962 he was sentenced to five years in prison and started serving his sentence at Robben Island Prison in 1963 before being brought back to Pretoria to stand in the Rivonia Trial. From 1964 to 1982, he was again incarcerated at Robben Island...
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African Travel Books & Ephemera
Stringer
by Anjan Sundaram
ANJAN SUNDARAM is an award-winning journalist who has reported from Africa and the Middle East for The New York Times and the Associated Press. His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, Fortune, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Telegraph, The Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, and the Huffington Post. He has been interviewed by the BBC World Service and Radio France Internationale for his analysis of the conflict in Congo. He received a Reuters...
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Darfur : A Short History of a Long War
by Alex de Waal; Julie Flint
Zed Books, Limited, 2008. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€5.66
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Picador Classic, 83)
by Hochschild, Adam
Paperback. Like New.
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€4.82
Conversations with Myself
by Mandela, Nelson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€6.13
The Great Anglo-Boer War
by Farwell, Byron
Harper & Row, 1976. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€7.55
The Albert N'Yanza
by Baker, Samuel White
New York: Horizon Press, 1962. Later edition. Hardcover. Fine. 569p octavo, illustrated. A fine clean set in brown cloth, name on inside front panel.
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€33.08
The Boer War
by Pakenham, Thomas
Random House, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($20.00 price intact). Published by Random House, 1979. Octavo. Maroon cloth boards stamped in gold with photographic endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear, nicks, and small scrapes on front. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 718 pages. ISBN: 0394427424....
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€28.36
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
by Theroux, Paul
McClelland & Stewart, 2004. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€10.11
The Boer War
by Pakenham, Thomas
Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2004. Second impression, 2004 (first published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979). Hardback. 660pp. Dust jacket. Thomas Pkenham has written the first full-scale documentary of the war to be attempted since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and often unpublished sources. This is a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel. The war declared by the Boers on 11th October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a...
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€11.82
Conversations with Myself
by Mandela, Nelson
Macmillan. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Near fine condition.Macmillan,2010.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine, two small nicks on the cover)with Dj(a couple of small nicks,creases and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with b/w drawings.Nice and clean pages as new with two ink marks and nick on the outer edges. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj...
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€52.03
A Short History of South Africa (1486-1826)
by Theal, George McCall
Darter Brothers & Walton, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First in this edition, in original binding. The pressed boards are shelf rubbed, edge worn and marked. The cloth at the edges of the spine is lightly torn and frayed, but the boards remain otherwise strong and square. Internally, there is mild, sporadic foxing throughout, and the end pages are a touch tanned. This does not affect the clarity of the text in any way, and the pages within remain clean and complete, with 10...
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€47.26
Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa
by Robert Klitgaard
Paperback / softback. New. Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review , this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author's two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.
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€39.66
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Mandela, Nelson
Paperback. Very Good.
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€2.52
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
by Martin Meredith
PublicAffairs, 2006 As new softcover. 58 pages of black and white photographs. Uncracked spine. Clean text and interior.. Soft cover. Fine/None.
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€12.33
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
by Jeal, Tim
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. xiii, 570 pages, [23] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "We think of Stanley as a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo--and the journalist who conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history,...
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€23.16
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Beah, Ishmael
Large Print Press, 2008. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€7.07
Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer
by Tim Jeal
Paperback / softback. New. Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
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€17.35
In Darkest Africa
by Stanley, Henry M
NY: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1890. First American edition. Two volumes, hard covers in original cloth. Published NY: Charles Scribner's, 1890, first printing. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9", xiv+547; xvi+540, 45 full-page engravings (including frontispieces), plus approximately 100 illustrations within the text, plus three folded color maps in pockets (two large, one small). Dark green pictorial cloth with gilt titles and blind embossed African continent, brown endpapers. Stanley's...
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€354.45
Ashanti Fetish Houses
by SWITHENBANK, Michael
Accra, Ghana: Ghana Universities Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Oblong octavo, 69pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean, very good or better copy in the publisher's orange cloth. In a very good dust jacket with some mild rubbing. Uncommon first printing of this volume of historic architecture styles of the former Ashanti kingdom, in modern-day Ghana.
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€23.63
