Best Time To Travel To East Africa - April 2024

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Gun... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393354326
• ASIN: 0393354326
• ISBN: 0393354326
• Brand: NORTON
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

West with the Night: A Memoir

A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0865477639
• ASIN: 0865477639
• ISBN: 0865477639
• Brand: Beryl Markham
• Manufacturer: North Point Press

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. “This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.”—Newsweek “By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.”—The New Yorker Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375758992
• ASIN: 0375758992
• ISBN: 0375758992
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Spanish Stories Book 1)

Do you know what the hardest thing for a Spanish learner is?Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book!Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students, books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes — it’s not entertaining, useful or motivating for the student at all, and many soon give up on learning at all!In this book we have compiled 20 easy-to-read, compelling and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabular... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078WRXYM7
• ASIN: B078WRXYM7

Give Your Child the World: Raising Globally Minded Kids One Book at a Time

Featuring a carefully curated reading treasury of the best children's literature for each area of the globe, as well as practical parenting suggestions and inspiration, Give Your Child the World helps moms and dads raise insightful, compassionate kids who fall in love with the world and are prepared to change it for good. Young children live with awe and wonder as their daily companions. But as they grow, worries often crowd out wonder. Knowing this, how can parents strengthen their kids' love for the world so it sticks around for the long haul?Thankfully, parents have at their fingertips a mi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0310344131
• UPC: 025986344139
• ASIN: 0310344131
• ISBN: 0310344131
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Zondervan

The Monk of Mokha

• ASIN: 1101947314
• ASIN: 1101947314
• ISBN: 1101947314
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Safari Planning Map to East and Southern Africa: Okavango Delta to Victoria Falls, Serengeti to Mt. Kilimanjaro, Best Time to Go/Wildlife Charts

The only safari-planning map to Africa on the market, this essential travel tool includes key elements for planning a successful safari. A work of art in itself, this large-scale color map includes all of the top safari countries and important wildlife reserves in East and Southern Africa, the best times to go for wildlife viewing, info on what wildlife is best round where, temperature and rainfall charts, enlargements of the key regions visited by most travelers, a map of the Great Serengeti Migration and enlargements of other popular reserves, and the location of the best safari camps and lo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 093989520X
• ASIN: 093989520X
• ISBN: 093989520X
• Manufacturer: Global Travel Publishers

Sheltering Sky, The

A landmark of twentieth-century literature. Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky explores the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert. 

• ASIN: 0062351486
• ASIN: 0062351486
• ISBN: 0062351486
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: EccoPress

Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene

The audacious, gripping travelogue of a writer chasing the ghost of Graham Greene into the heart of Africa.Of all the anarchic and war-torn African nations, none is more forbidding than Liberia, the land that nurtured child soldiers, the violent trade in "blood diamonds," even ritual murder. Graham Greene, in search of extreme adventure, ventured through its dense jungles to write the travel classic Journey Without Maps; three-quarters of a century later, Tim Butcher decided to follow Greene's footsteps, only to find the path even more ominous and overgrown than in his predecessor's day. Among... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1935633295
• ASIN: 1935633295
• ISBN: 1935633295
• Brand: Brand: Atlas
• Manufacturer: Atlas

The Girl from Everywhere

The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility. Its sparkling wit, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir and Leigh Bardugo. As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has spent sixteen years sweeping across the globe and through the centuries aboard her father’s ship. Modern-day New York City, nineteenth-century Hawaii, other lands seen only in myth and legend—Nix has been to them all. But when her father gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. Rae Carson me... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062380761
• ASIN: 0062380761
• ISBN: 9780062380760
• Brand: Greenwillow Books
• Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca

In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge–and nothing is as easy as it seems….Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, Tahir Shah dreamed of making a home in that astonishing country. At age thirty-six he got his chance. Investing what money he ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553383108
• ASIN: 0553383108
• ISBN: 0553383108
• Brand: Shah, Tahir
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Eastern Approaches (Penguin World War II Collection)

Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould . . .

• ASIN: 0141042842
• ASIN: 0141042842
• ISBN: 0141042842
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Penguin UK

Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler

In 1325, the great Arab traveler Ibn Battutah set out from his native Tangier in North Africa on pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned nearly thirty years later, he had seen most of the known world, covering three times the distance allegedly traveled by the great Venetian explorer Marco Polo—some 75,000 miles in all. Captivated by Ibn Battutah’s account of his journey, the Arabic scholar and award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out to follow in the peripatetic Moroccan’s footsteps. Traversing Egyptian deserts and remote islands in the Arabian Sea, visiting castles... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812971647
• ASIN: 0812971647
• ISBN: 0812971647
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)

"Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." —The Daily Telegraph   Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0141442077
• ASIN: 0141442077
• ISBN: 0141442077
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. In 1910, searching for something new, he arrived in British East Africa and fell in love–with a continent, with a landscape, with a way of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812968921
• ASIN: 0812968921
• ISBN: 0812968921
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa

A beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith’s Ladies Detective series does for BotswanaFor the past three years, the widower Mr. Malik has been secretly

• UPC: 10968789
• Rating: 4.161

A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa - eBook

For lovers of Alexander McCall Smith, the engaging follow up to Nicholas Drayson's much-loved A Guide to the Birds of East Africa sees the return of Mr Malik and the East African Ornithological Society.Mr Malik

• UPC: 609864526
• Rating: 4.0

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa

Drayson pens a beguiling story that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith's Ladies Detective series does for Botswana, in this novel of love, wisdom, and political

• UPC: 968739714
• Rating: 4.161

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: East and Central Africa - eBook

Among the Sudanese - James BruceBruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century before the search for the source of the White Nile became headline news. His descriptions of the cruelties

• UPC: 960535696

Lawrence of Arabia and the Middle East and Africa

This captivating graphic novel recounts three historic land battles in the Middle East and Africa during World War I: Attack on the Hejaz Railway, September 16, 1917; The Charge on Beersheba, October 31, 1917; and

• UPC: 22404211

Selected Issues in Agricultural Policy Analysis with Special Reference to East Africa - eBook

This book highlights some of the main areas of debate around the subject of agricultural policy in Eastern Africa. Its major aim is to introduce the reader to different issues of economic and social change

• UPC: 213875093

Pocket Guide to Mammals of East Africa

A handy and informative companion for the tourist and

• UPC: 10778648

Africa From East to West - eBook

Africa from East to West describes a journey across the width of Africa from Massawa on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea to Cape Verde in Senegal. Most of this journey was through the semi-arid

• UPC: 589141704

East Africa Wildlife: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species in Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda (Paperback)

9781583559383

• UPC: 44514864

Animals of the Serengeti | Wildlife of East Africa | Encyclopedias for Children - eBook

Let’s meet the animals in the wild side of Africa, the Serengeti. This encyclopedia is a powerful tool that’s filled with so much information. But because the facts are cut short and presented in an

• UPC: 534950022