Search Results for ‘East Africa’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 11 matches found
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| Author: | Stephen Taylor |
| Publisher: | Flamingo |
| Catalogue number: | 92195 |
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An examination of colonial Africa in the age of Livingstone and modern times.
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 154526 |
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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...
| Author: | Bill Bryson |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Catalogue number: | 111259 |
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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...
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)
| Author: | Kenneth Cain |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press |
| Catalogue number: | 142468 |
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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 Books |
| Catalogue number: | 96284 |
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From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa.
Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
| Author: | Ernest Hemingway |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 120566 |
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro contains some of Ernest Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular early works of fiction. In all these stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live...
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
| Author: | Philip Gourevitch |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 88362 |
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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...
| Author: | James Orbinski |
| Publisher: | Rider & Co. |
| Catalogue number: | 166511 |
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In "An Imperfect Offering", James Orbinski tells his own extraordinary story of being a doctor, but also discusses the nature of humanitarian action today and our responsibilities as citizens of the...
| Author: | Riccardo Orizio |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 119187 |
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The Zanzibar Chest - A Memoir of Love and War
| Author: | Aidan Hartley |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 125001 |
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"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...
| Author: | Elspeth Huxley |
| Publisher: | Pimlico |
| Catalogue number: | 72350 |
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Elspeth Huxley recalls her childhood adventures in Kenya, travelling in an open cart with her parents to Thika.
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