Africa

Bradt's Gabon remains the only English-language guide dedicated exclusively to what is considered by many to be 'Africa's last Eden' thanks to its sparse population and perhaps the highest percentage of forest cover of any country in the world. This new...

Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South...

In this moving sequel to The Lost World of the Kalahari van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and lore of Africa's first inhabitants. The Heart of the Hunter is a journey into the mind and spirit of the Bushmen, a people outlawed by...

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400034529Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198359Author Barbara GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771294195Page Count 1Imprint ITMB PublishingPublisher ITMB PublishingWeight(grams) 56g

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...

A guidebook to 75 walks in South Africa's Maloti-Drakensberg Park and Royal Natal National Park. Graded from easy to strenuous, the routes explore the dramatic scenery of this stunning UNESCO World Heritage Site. Walks range from 1 to 26km...

A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718282Author Hiltrud SchulzFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

A radiant, unforgettable memoir of one woman's 450 days spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away. When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop...

The only field guide to every species recorded in Seychelles. This compact field guide, based on Birds of Seychelles by Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock and Tony Disley (Helm 2000), is the only field guide to cover all of the more than 250 species...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910515648Author Justin WalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Bennion Kearny LimitedPublisher Bennion Kearny LimitedWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a...

V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907685705Author Keith HernFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590482131Author Christina DodwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Long Riders' Guild PressPublisher Long Riders' Guild Press

This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts...

In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434535Author John HeminwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

In this extraordinary debut - called 'gripping' by The Times of London - Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news from a forgotten town deep in Congo's 'silent quarter' where peace is finally being built after two decades of civil war and devastation...

'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An...

Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach-uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation-renders his books devastating and unforgettable. Now, for the first time,...

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Southern Africa is home to a diverse reptile fauna of more than 600 species. Of these, nearly 70% are endemic to the region, being found nowhere else. This compact guide features 276 of the more colourful and conspicuous species, as well as those unique...

'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .'Of all Michael Palin's epic voyages, this may be his greatest ever challenge: crossing the vast and unforgiving Sahara...

Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living on a shoestring in a lion conservation camp, Kate home-schools her family under a camelthorn tree while they also learn at...

Martha Gellhorn's three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsider into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It is a story of rejection and enchantment. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647645274Author Deneys ReitzFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Scrawny Goat BooksPublisher Scrawny Goat BooksWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737903901Author Sue TidwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Circle T PublishingPublisher Circle T PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

East Africa is a premier wildlife destination, well known for its mass migrations of herds and fearsome predators. But as iconic are the trees that grow there: among them mangroves, cycads, palms, marulas, acacias, sausage trees, fever trees, toothbrush...

For the past twenty years, photographer Mirjam Bleeker and stylist Frank Visser have travelled around the world together many times. They prefer to travel without a fixed plan, so they can be surprised by unexpected adventures and encounters. A few years...

White/ Other is a strange hybrid beast - part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti - a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working-class "other"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434377869Author David FiggFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079528Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844260478Author Charles CataniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Upfront PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937220112Author Itsushi KawaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Awai BooksPublisher Awai BooksWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 12mm

It would be easy to despair at the state of the world today. But we must not. Indeed, we cannot. In this book Neil Findlay brings together first-hand testimony from people who have played crucial roles in social justice campaigns. Their stories are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908489579Author Caz BuckinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Fine Feather Press LtdPublisher Fine Feather Press LtdWeight(grams) 100g