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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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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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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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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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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 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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House of Stone
by Christina Lamb
Blue mountains, golden fields, gin and tonics on the terrace... Once it had seemed the most idyllic place on earth. But, after Robert Mugabe's 2000 controversial land reform programme, Marondera in...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone tells how, at the age of 12 years old, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in his home country of Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognisable by violence. At 13, he was...
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Wilfred Thesiger in Africa
by Alexander Maitland
Alexander Maitland’s Wilfred Thesiger in Africa is a unique hardback collection of essays and personal photographs of the explorer on what was known in his time as the ‘Dark Continent’. The book is a...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)
by Kenneth Cain
It's the early 1990s and three young people, working for the UN and Red Cross in Cambodia, become friends in the heady atmosphere of the country's first democratic elections. All of them have been...
- Publisher: Ebury Press