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More Than Just a Game - Footbal V Apartheid by Chuck Korr; Marvin Close
$10.00 NZD
Category: Africa
'It is amazing to think that a game that people take for granted all around the world, was the very same game that gave a group of prisoners sanity - and in a way, gave us the resolve to carry on the struggle'. Anthony Suze, Robben Island Prisoner. This is the astonishing story of how a unique group of ...Show more
Decoding the Pyramids - Exploring the world's most enigmatic structures by John Desalvo
$20.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
Into the Dark Continent - The travels of Henry Morton Stanley by Hnery Morton Stanley; Frank McLynn (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
The Discovery of River Gambra 1623 by Richard Jobson by Richard Jobson; David P. Gamble (Editor); P. E. H. Hair (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 2 | Reading Level: very good
In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-1621 English voyage up River Gambra, during which a party, led by himself, penetrated to a point some 460 miles up-river. The purpose of the voyage was to make contact with the gold trade of the West African interior, but in this there was little suc ...Show more
Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883 by Juan Maria Schuver; Wendy James (ed.); Gerd Baumann (ed.); Douglas H Johnson (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 184 | Reading Level: very good
Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to th ...Show more
Agatharchides of Cnidus - On the Erythraean Sea by Agatharchides of Cnidus; Stanley M. Burstein (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 172 | Reading Level: very good
Written some time before 100 BC the On the Erythraean Sea of Agatharchides of Cnidus is the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter of the history of geographical discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea and the region surrounding it by agents of the Ptolemaic government of Egypt in the c ...Show more
Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries by Henry Arrowsmith-Brown (Editor); Richard Pankhurst
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 174 | Reading Level: very good
Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor Iyasu II; with two colleagues he left Cairo in August and reached Massawa in November. After some delay he was summoned to Gondar, which he reached in ...Show more
Barbot on Guinea - The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712 Volumes I & II by Jean Barbot; Adam Jones (ed.); P. E. H. Hair (Editor); Robin Law (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 175-6 | Reading Level: very good
Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous printed sources. The work was interrupted by his fligh ...Show more
France's Overseas Frontier - Departements et Territoires d'Outre-Mer by Robert Aldrich; John Connell
$55.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
This book provides the first ever English-language analysis of France's so-called "confetti of empire," the colonial remnants referred to as "DOM-TOMs"--the départements et territoires d'outre-mer. France shows no signs of relinquishing its remaining overseas outposts which are located from the tropics ...Show more
Mugabe and the White African by Ben Freeth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
Ben Freeth has an extraordinary story to tell. Like that of many white farmers, his family's land was 'reclaimed' by Mugabe's government for redistribution. But Ben's family fought back. Appealing to international law, they instigated a suit against Mugabe's government via the SADC (The Southern African ...Show more
Kaleidoscope Dakar & Kinshasa by Jean Michel Massing
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good