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Planning a trip to Africa? Browse our collection of Africa guide books and maps below; our collection includes travel guides from renowned publishers as well as specialist, hard-to-find publications. We also feature recommended holiday reading and all your essential travel accessories.

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Benin

Road map of the country with insets showing street plans of Cotonou and Porto-Novo. Relief shading and 80m contour intervals provide information about the topography and different colours are used t...
- Publisher: IGN - Institut Géographique National
- Scale: 1:600,000
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The Zanzibar Chest - A Memoir of Love and War
by Aidan Hartley
"We should never have come!" so said Aidan Hartley's father in his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before. His words...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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The Danakil Diary: Journeys Through Abyssinia 1930-34
by Wilfred Thesiger
“The Danakil Diary” is one of the greatest tales from one of the greatest explorers of our time. In 1930 Wilfred Thesiger attended the coronation of HIM Haile Selassie at the Emperor’s personal...
- Publisher: Flamingo
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Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of The Great Explorer
by Alexander Maitland
A legend in his own lifetime, the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for 60 years in some of the remotest most dangerous places on Earth. His books are widely acclaimed, yet his...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent
by Blaine Harden
In addressing such issues as the incompetent intervention of Western Governments and the battle between the tribal way of life and the modern world, the author paints a picture of Africa that is often...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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Livingstone's Tribe: A Journey from Zanzibar to the Cape
by Stephen Taylor
Taylor travels from east to southern Africa uncovering vestiges of the continent's colonial past through its landscape, peoples and their stories. This is a journey to discover the identity of...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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The Chains of Heaven - An Ethiopian Romance
by Philip Marsden
When Philip Marsden first went to Ethiopia in 1982, it changed the direction of his life. What he saw of its astonishing antiquity, its raw medieval Christianity, its extremes of brutality and grace...
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
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I Didn't Do It For You
by Michela Wrong
Just as the beat of a butterfly's wings is said to cause hurricanes on the other side of the world, so the affairs of tiny Eritrea have reached onto the agenda of superpower strategists.

Eritrea...
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
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The Gates of Africa
by Anthony Sattin
The African Association, founded in 1788, was the world¿s first geographical society. Its aim was to explore the interior of Africa, a region known only through legend and vague report. What f...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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My Life and Travels
by Wilfred Thesiger
Revered as one of The Twentieth Century's great British explorers, William Thesiger's exploratory zeal was enduringly established in early childhood. Encompassing over fifty years of travel,...
- Publisher: Flamingo
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Emma's War - Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan
by Deborah Scroggins
From the very start, Emma McCune's unusual beauty and glamour set her apart from the other aid workers in the Sudan. But no one was prepared for her decision to marry a local warlord, a man who...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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Livingstone's Tribe
by Stephen Taylor
An examination of colonial Africa in the age of Livingstone and modern times....
- Publisher: Flamingo