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  • Timbuktu

    The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

    by Marq De Villiers, Sheila Hirtle ...
    The first book for general readers about the storied past of one of the world’s most fabled cities.Timbuktu — the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place, even though the city’s glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendour and decay of one of humankind’s treasures.Founded in the early ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • Another Day of Life

    by Ryszard Kapuscinski ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro—and chaos.Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Happy Odyssey

    by Adrian Carton de Wiart ...
    The legendary British Army officer recounts his experiences in the Boer War and both World Wars in this memoir with a foreword by Winston Churchill.Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart had one of the most extraordinary military careers in the history of the British Army. His gallantry in combat won him a Victoria Cross and a Distinguished Service Order, as well as an eyepatch and an empty ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa.

    by Frederick Selous. ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London.The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.This edition includes illustrations.Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and ... Read more

    $9.93 CAD

  • The Wizard of the Nile

    The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted

    by Matthew Green ...
    A foreign correspondent's chronicle of the Ugandan warlord and his Lord's Resistance Army of abducted child soldiers: "a readable and compelling account" ( Independent, UK).Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel leader: he is said to take his orders directly from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalized child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Infantryman vs Zulu Warrior

    Anglo-Zulu War 1879

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 3 - Combat
    The short but savage Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 pitched well-equipped but complacent British soldiers into combat with the Zulu, one of history's finest fighting forces.The clashes between these two different armies prompted tactical innovation on both sides, as the British and their Zulu opponents sought to find the optimal combination of mobility, protection and firepower. This engrossing study ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • Middle Passages

    African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

    by James T. Campbell, David Levering Lewis ...
    Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • The Africans

    by David Lamb ...
    During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors. He bounced from wars to coups oceans apart, catching midnight flights to little-known countries where supposedly ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Weeping Kings and Wild Boars

    Moments & Magic in Forty Years Trying to Save the World

    by Jerry Eckert ...
    "Heartwarming, stark, and fascinating, this memoir will take you beyond the borders of several countries and your own world."Somehow they trusted me.Kings, Prime Ministers, dedicated civil servants and a few of the world’s poorest folk shared their aspirations and agonies, and together we worked for change. Weeping Kings and Wild Boars, a collection of memoir essays, tells their stories and mine ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossings

    Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    by James Walvin ...
    From the mid-fifteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Americas; at least 11 million survived the journey. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the u.s. followed suit in 1808, more than 3 million Africans made the terrible ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • All About Africa! About All African States and Peoples

    by Baby Professor ...
    Kids, welcome to Africa! This is a great picture book that will take you to the beautiful African states and meet the people who call it home. Learn about the sights and sounds of the place. See the animals roaming in the safaris. Learn about the place’s traditions and cultures too. Go ahead and grab a copy today. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD