Books, Travel, Africa

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Tim Butcher
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Grove Press (Hardcover)

Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection—the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list—Blood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedition in which he mapped the Congo River. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the legendary Congo River and the idea of re-creating Stanley's legendary journey along the three-thousand-mile waterway. Despite warnings that his plan was suicidal, Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers. An utterly absorbing ...

DK Publishing
Egypt (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
by DK Travel (Paperback)

Peter Allison
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
by The Lyons Press (Paperback)

Ian Andrew, Dugald Steer
Egyptology
by Candlewick (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2004-11-04)

A new discovery from the publishers of DRAGONOLOGY! Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition - a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Here are just a few of EYGPTOLOGY's special features: 1) an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems 2) a playable game of Senet(ancient Egyptian checkers) including playing board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules 3) a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs 4) a scrap of "mummy cloth" 5) a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut 6) a gilded eye-of-Horus amulet with a "jewel" 7) fold-out maps 8) drawings and photographs 9) period postcards 10) a letter from the former Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, explaining which parts of this unique tale may be accepted as fact, which are guided by legend, and which reflect the ...

Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa (Modern Library)
by Modern Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1992-09-05)

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing ...

Beryl Markham
West With the Night
by North Point Pr (Hardcover)

Paul Theroux
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
by Mariner Books (Paperback)

In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux"s reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, dugout canoe, "chicken bus," and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful — and often life-threatening — landscapes on earth. This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. "Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it," he writes, "hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can"t tell the politicians from the witch doctors. Not that Africa is one place. It is an ...

Dean King
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Back Bay Books (Paperback)

Matthew Firestone, Rafael Wlodarski, Anthony Sattin, Zora O'Neill
Egypt (Country Guide)
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

Discover EgyptFind a Cairo coffeehouse to suit your own style; unwind, chat and inhale deeply over a sheeshaForget hot springs: try a hot sand bath in the middle of the desertTake belly-dancing lessons from the most famous teacher in EgyptRelax in the soft light of early morning on a Nile cruiseIn This Guide:Five authors, 295 days of research, hundreds of touts and a week-long scuba courseSpecial chapter on cruising the Nile: choose from timeless feluccas and splendid dahabiyyas, the Rolls Royce of their eraIllustrated Pharaonic Egypt chapter by world-renowned Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher brings the ancient rulers to life

Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1989-10-23)

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