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The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump; James Gump
$15.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: good
In 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry on the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undiscipline ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$5.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more
Rhodes and Barnarto Architect by Leasor James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
The story of Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato is a catalogue of huge risks taken, of pledges made and broken, of blackmail, murder and betrayal.
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T. Kryza
$12.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
The incredible true story of Alexander Gordon Laing and the race to discover Timbuktu during the early part of the 19th century--a time when the African continent was still largely uncharted. In the first decades of 19th century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers-- ...Show more
Exploration of Africa: From Cairo to the Cape by Anne Hugon
$5.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Series: New Horizons Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Dr Livingstone, I presume... Everyone knows Stanley's famous words. But what of the other great explorers of the mysterious interior of Africa? Burton, Speke, Grant, Baker, Kingsley: in the space of barely fifty years these extraordinary men and women travelled to the sources of the Nile and tracked the ...Show more
On the Threshold of Central Africa A Record of Twenty Years Pioneering Among the Barotsi of the Upper Zambesi by Coillard, Francois
$110.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: Good
Missions To The Niger Volume I-IV by E W Bovill (ed.)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Africa from Early Times to 1800 by P. J. M. McEwan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
The Comforts of Home Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi by White, Luise
$20.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: Very Good
Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo by John Dunn and A. F. Robertson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
The Political Economy of Colonialism in Ghana A Collection of Documents and Statistics 1900-1960 by G. B. Kay (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good