Search Results for ‘Africa’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 93 matches found

Dark Star Safari

Embarking on another ambitious journey, Paul Theroux travels on his Dark Star Safari from Cairo to Cape Town by train, boat and cattle truck. He sets out to travel the length of Africa and to see everything...

Moods of Future Joys - Around the World by Bike, part 1

Moods of Future Joys tells the first part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous...

My Life and Travels

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, Thesiger...

Out of Africa

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen is perhaps more famous for having been made into a multi Oscar winning film starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, but before the glamour of Hollywood came the real...

The Meaning of Tingo

Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...

The Shadow of The Sun - My African Life

Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career.
In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post...

The Translator

A harrowing tale of selfless courage in terrifying conditions, “The Translator” tells the story of Daoud Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan who found a new calling in the wake of...

Thunder & Sunshine - Around the World by Bike, part 2

Thunder & Sunshine tells the second part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous...

Travels Into the Interior of Africa

Mungo Park's account of his journeys into West Africa in 1795 and again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent.
Though he failed in the object...

Travels With Herodotus

"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket.
As a novice reporter in the 1950s...

Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of The Great Explorer

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 character...

Barrow's Boys

"Barrows Boy's" records the history of British exploration in the first half of the 19th century, examining events in the Arctic, Antarctic, Australia and West Africa. Fleming dusts down the surreal...

Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley is arguably Britain’s greatest land explorer of all time. His character though, is held in an entirely different regard - today he is remembered as a cruel imperialist in Africa...

The State of Africa - A History of Fifty Years of Independence

Focusing on the key personalities, events and themes of the independence era, Meredith's magisterial history seeks to explore and explain the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century...

Things Fall Apart

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age's defining books - the book that marked African independence and in one leap created a powerful, vivid Nigerian literature...

In Search of Eden

'As a young man, I walked for a time in paradise.' In the summer of 1977 James Weir came upon a walled garden in the south-east of Turkey that seemed to speak to him of something deep in our collective...

Travels in the White Man's Grave

Donald Macintosh spent thirty years as a tree prospector and surveyor in the rainforests of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon. During his time there he came in contact with...

Traversa

Fran Sandham’s "Traversa" is a part travelogue, part history and entirely awe-inspiring account of one man’s grit, determination and sheer obsession with the continent of Africa.
Walking 3,000 miles...

Africa - In the Footsteps of the Great Explorers

“Africa - In the Footsteps of Great Explorers” is a book that is, as viewers of the History channel will know, wrought through with Kingsley’s Holgate’s infectious mix of zeal and the occasional over...

Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Rachel Zadok’s first novel Gem Squash Tokoloshe takes its title from a chant mumbled by Faith, a young white girl living in mid-eighties South Africa at the height of apartheid on a drought-stricken...