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  • The Trouble with Africa

    by Vic Guhrs ...
    German-born artist Vic Guhrs came to Africa at the age of twenty-two to fulfil his boyhood dream of a life in wild places among wild animals. He lived for twenty-five years in an isolated bush camp in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia and knows that, despite its paradoxes and its mysteries, he can never leave Africa. The trouble with Africa, he says, is that once it is in your blood, like malaria, it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Cape Town to Mombasa

    by Emma Selig Jones, Ted Jones ...
    Emma and I most cordially invite you to accompany us as our special arm-chair guest on an overland journey through the most exciting continent on the Planet Earth.We shall begin our journey in Cape Town, South Africa in the fall of 1964. During the following ten months we will travel and camp along Africas Great North Road. A variety of recently created nations and peoples, a few still struggling ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Game Ranger Remembers

    by Bruce Bryden ...
    Bruce Bryden's true stories about the life of a bushveld conservationist draws on 27 years in the service of the Kruger National Park. It makes for a gripping read, abounding with encounters with elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard and rhino, whether darting for research, managing culling operations by helicopter or stalking on foot. In the best tradition of bushveld stories, there is a great deal of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out In The Midday Sun

    by Elspeth Huxley ...
    Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and THE MOTTLED LIZARD. In this final volume of her trilogy she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities - from the pioneer Lord Delamere and Baroness Blixen to Jomo Kenyatta - blend with her supurb description of the social ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Flame Trees Of Thika

    Memories of an African Childhood

    by Elspeth Huxley ...
    When Elspeth Huxley’s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination: building a grass house, employing local Kikuyu tribe members and painstakingly transforming their patch of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • No Stopping for Lions

    by Joanne Glynn ...
    No Stopping for Lions is an unforgettable adventure that is sure to inspire us all to step outside our comfort zone. When Joanne Glynn and her husband Neil travelled around Africa for a year, the warmth of the people, beauty of the landscape and awe-inspiring diversity of the wildlife soon worked their way into the travellers' hearts and souls.From encounters with waterlogged warthogs to ... Read more

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  • Dry Water

    Diving Headfirst into Africa

    by Tammie Matson ...
    When she was fifteen, Tammie Matson went on safari with her father to Zimbabwe - and it changed her forever. Back in Australia she turned her life upside down to build her future in Africa.Returning to the safari camps - this time as a worker - she out-ran a charging lioness, played with a cheetah, stumbled across poachers and watched with amazement as a witchdoctor struck fear into his victims' ... Read more

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  • The Mottled Lizard

    by Elspeth Huxley ...
    In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. Her family and friends, their home and their travels, the glorious wildlife and scenery, described in rich and loving detail, all spring to life in this enchanting book. 'She knows East Africa and she loves it. . . with a critical and understanding sympathy. ' The ... Read more

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  • Do Not Take this Road to El-Karama

    by Chris Harvie ...
    Tired of tragic stories, Chris Harvie sets out to see the positive side of the ‘Dark Continent’ and to enjoy its life and laughter. Do Not Take This Road to El-Karama is the entertaining account of an epic road trip that takes him from his home outside the Kruger National Park to the banks of the Nile in Uganda – and back again. In his haphazard and somewhat eccentric travels, Harvie encounters ... Read more

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  • Houses in Africa

    by Alma Alexander ...
    When I was 10, I was taken from my quiet, safe corner of old Europe and deposited into an exotic new world. Africa, at once breathtaking and soul-destroying, from the snow-capped mountains and teeming game plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the haunted hunger-stalked dustbowls of Ethiopia and the Sudan – the hideous and the magnificent have always gone hand in hand there.Nobody who has once set foot ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living in Africa

    by Marie Pierce Weber ...
    Meet the unusual and interesting familes of Paula and Thomas Caulfield. Experience the melding of these diverse characters into a cohesive clan.Be an intimate part of their lives, sharing their bedroom conversations and personal feelings.The story spans the globe and takes the reader on a journey to uncommon places to hob-nob with distinctive people. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Nine Faces Of Kenya

    by Elspeth Huxley ...
    In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD