Category: Africa

Stanley Burstein has researched, compiled, and translated with commentary the most significant Greek and Roman sources concerning black Africa. The result is this work about the people of the southern part of the Nile Valley, the gold mines of Nubia, the Hellenistic city of Meroe, capital of the Ethiopian Empire of Kush with its own highly developed culture (300 BC to 300 AD). Burstein opens the volume with a brief survey of the two kingdoms of Kush and Axum. With introductions and notes he then presents the ancient literary and epigraphical testimony for this region.
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Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones

By: Campbell, Greg

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Basic Books: 2002-09-01

Seller ID: R4-423w

ISBN: 0813339391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has some wear. In my

Journalist Greg Campbell leads the reader down the international diamond trail of brutality, horror, and profit - providing an on-the-ground and in-the-mines story of global consequenceFirst discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spous...
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Feeling the Spirit

By: Chester Higgins, Jr.

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Bantam: 1994-09-01

Seller ID: H3-723w

ISBN: 0553095560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has some wear around

The Nile

By: Collins, Professor Robert O.; Collins, Robert O.

Price: $5.46

Publisher: Yale University Press: 2002-11-01

Seller ID: C9-508ri

ISBN: 0300097646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

The Nile is the longest river in the world. In its route from the Lake Plateau of East Africa to the Mediterranean, the Nile flows for more than four thousand miles through nine countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, the Sudan, and Egypt. The river begins in volcanoes and mountains with glacial snows and ends in arid deserts.

Throughout history, the banks of the Nile have been home to many peoples, from Bantu cultivators, Nilotic herdsmen, and Ethiopians in their highlands to the Sudanese, Nubians, and Egyptians on the plains below. No other river in the worl...
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Killing the Wizards: Wars of Power and Freedom from Zaire to South Africa

By: Cowell, Alan

Price: $4.49

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1992-04-15

Seller ID: R5-10006f

ISBN: 0671696297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Lost Cities of Africa

By: Davidson, Basil

Price: $19.86

Publisher: Back Bay Books: 1987-01-01

Seller ID: P-801ri

ISBN: 0316174319

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Let Freedom Come: Africa in Modern History

By: Davidson, Basil

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Little Brown & Co: 1989-04-01

Seller ID: L3-604ri

ISBN: 0316174378

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

A history of modern Africa tracing its troubled 20th century, from imperialism to the birth of independent nations, and portraying an African consciousness whose roots are as deep as its goals are new.
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African Slave Trade, The

By: Davidson, Basil

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Back Bay Books: 1988-11-28

Seller ID: M6-804ri

ISBN: 0316174386

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Letters from Africa, 1914-1931

By: Dinesen, Isak

Price: $14.95

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: 1984-04-15

Seller ID: P2-809ri

ISBN: 0226153118

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir "Out of Africa" (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world." Bruce Allen, "Christian Science Monitor"
""Letters from Africa" is literary gold, 24 karat." Alden Whitman, "Boston Globe""
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The House in Tyne Street: Childhood Memories of District Six

By: Fortune, Linda

Price: $11.95

Publisher: NB Publishers: 2010-03-15

Seller ID: R2-6012ri

ISBN: 0795700261

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

In the course of 27 short chapters, Linda Fortune draws a vivid picture of a place, time and lifestyle that no longer exist. This book never gets bogged down in politics. Instead, it succeeds in recreating a specific time and specific place with its focus firstly on one family in particular, warts and all. A bigger picture also emerges, that of a whole community: people teachers, shop-keepers, barbers, entertainers and specific places movie-houses, shops, streets and lanes still recalled by many who lived there. Eighteen black and white photographs by photographers such as Cloete Breytenbach, ...
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Black Separatism and Social Reality: Rhetoric and Reason

By: Hall, Raymond L.

Price: $28.07

Publisher: Pergamon Pr: 1977-06-01

Seller ID: A17-735s

ISBN: 0080195091

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Used Book is like new.Cover has some Shelf wear.
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Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889

By: Hibbert, Christopher

Price: $17.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: 1983-09-01

Seller ID: T5-3023f

ISBN: 0393017605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Problems in African History: The Precolonial Centuries (Topics in World History) (v. 1)

By: James McDonald Burns

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers: 1993-01-01

Seller ID: L2-302f

ISBN: 1558760598

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

A study of problems in African history during the pre-colonial era. The author guides the reader through a range of theories and interpretations concerning issues relating to: Africa and Egypt; Bantu origins and migration; African states and trade; Islam in Africa; women; and slavery.
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The Savage Wars: British Campaigns in Africa, 1870-1920

By: James, Lawrence

Price: $24.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 1986-01-01

Seller ID: P5-380ri

ISBN: 0312699875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Nine Faces of Kenya: Portrait of a Nation

By: Karen Blixen; Winston Churchill; Ernest Hemingway; Richard Leakey; Beryl Markham; Shiva Naipaul; Theodore Roosevelt; Evelyn Waugh

Price: $32.14

Publisher: Viking Penquin: 1991-07-01

Seller ID: Q2-842ri

ISBN: 0670838721

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

African Kingdoms

By: Mair, Lucy P.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr: 1977-09-29

Seller ID: P2-803ri

ISBN: 0198740751

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

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Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer

By: McLynn, Frank

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Scarborough House: 1990-09-01

Seller ID: K3-324ri

ISBN: 0812840089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This biography recounts the life of the eccentric and indomitable African explorer Henry M. Stanley (1841-1904), who circumnavigated Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria, fixed the source of the Nile, and traveled the length of the Congo River.
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Bay of Tigers: An Odyssey through War-torn Angola

By: Mendes, Pedro Rosa

Price: $39.50

Publisher: Harcourt: 2003-05-01

Seller ID: N1-806ri

ISBN: 0151006555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In 1997, Pedro Rosa Mendes traveled across Africa--6,000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique--on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles.
In war-torn Angola, a country where land mines outnumber people, Mendes found long lines of villagers waiting for shock treatment to neutralize the phantom pain in amputated limbs, an apothecary's tent purveying boiled mucumbi bark to combat scurvy lesions in the mouth, and trains crowded with people eating salted fish and drinking beer, swapping tales of local sorce...
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Category: Africa