Search Results for ‘East Africa’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 10 matches found
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| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 154526 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. He was 6 foot 3 inches tall, and once lifted a car out of a ditch unaided...
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)
| Author: | Kenneth Cain |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press |
| Catalogue number: | 142468 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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 attracted...
| Author: | Karen Blixen |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 96284 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
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...
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
| Author: | Philip Gourevitch |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 88362 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
An account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. It chronicles what has happened in Rwanda since 1994, when the government called on the Hutu majority to murder the...
We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey Through Tanzania
| Author: | Laurie Krebs |
| Publisher: | Barefoot Books |
| Catalogue number: | 136363 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In We all Went on Safari, join Arusha, Mosi, Tumpe and their Maasai friends as they set out on a counting journey through the grasslands of Tanzania. Along the way, the children encounter all sorts...
| Author: | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 143342 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Petals of Blood is a novel based firmly in the reality of its times, portraying a post independence Kenya ruled by greed, corruption and brutality. Paradoxically, the blistering criticism of the legacy...
| Author: | Elspeth Huxley |
| Publisher: | Pimlico |
| Catalogue number: | 72350 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Elspeth Huxley recalls her childhood adventures in Kenya, travelling in an open cart with her parents to Thika.
| Author: | Moses Isegawa |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 143265 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Moses Isegawa’s first novel Abyssinian Chronicles is a coming-of-age tale set in Idi Amin’s Uganda. A grandfather, father and son form a tripod of characters to represent the traditional order, the...
| Author: | Bill Bryson |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Catalogue number: | 111259 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Bill Bryson discovers the African continent for the first time following an invitation from CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the...
| Author: | Stephen Taylor |
| Publisher: | Flamingo |
| Catalogue number: | 92195 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
An examination of colonial Africa in the age of Livingstone and modern times.
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