Africa

Africa
A fine selection of second-hand travel books from the home of Malawi Gin and the world's most beautiful English accents... Used books from Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. And more!

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JELLA From Lagos to Liverpool A Woman At Sea in a Man's World by Dea Birkett
This looks like a great read and it is quite hard to find. The author travels the West African coast by Cargo ship. Book is in good, used condition, clean with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00

JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO A Memoir by Roya Hakakian (Iran)
An Iran memoir, looks like a moving read.

Price: AUD $9.00

JOURNEY TO THE JADE SEA by John Hillaby (Kenya, Africa)
A classic African travel book first published in 1964. Tired of city ife and ashamed at his tolerance of boredom, John Hillaby decided to go on a three month safari in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya. With five natives, six camels, 1400 pounds of baggage, twelve pairs of gym shoes, a shot-gut, a Swahili phrase book and a floppy hat, he travelled from Wamba to Lake Rudolf and back.

Price: AUD $9.00


KILLERS IN AFRICA Alexander Lake - The Truth About Animals Lying In Wait and Hunters Lying in Print
Killers in Africa takes a look at the days of big game hunting, when African safari meant shooting things.

Price: AUD $8.00

LAND OF A THOUSAND HILLS My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey
A hard to find Rwanda memoir spanning the 1950's and beyond the 1990's Hutu-Tutsi genocide.

Price: AUD $9.00

LEO THE AFRICAN by Amin Maalouf
Leo the African is a novel based on the true life story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the sixteenth-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. Book is in good condition with little reading wear, nice and clean, pages tanning lightly with age. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00

LIBYAN SANDS R.A. Bagnold - Travel in a Dead World (Libya / Egypt / Africa)
LIBYAN SANDS: an English desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.

Price: AUD $5.00

LONELY PLANET HEALTHY TRAVEL AFRICA by Isabelle Young
A nifty pocket sized guide to staying healthy on the road.

Price: AUD $8.00

LONELY PLANET MOZAMBIQUE Mary Fitzpatrick
A 2007 edition of the Lonely Planet guide to Mozambique.

Price: AUD $9.00

LONELY PLANET SWAHILI PHRASEBOOK With Two-Way Dictionary
A very handy pocket-sized phrase book. Book is in good condition with clean white pages, light wear around the edges. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $9.00

LOOKING FOR LOVEDU A Journey through Africa in search of a legendary rainmaking queen by Ann Jones

This looks like a great read and is quite hard to find. Book is in good, used condition: clean with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy! 


Price: AUD $8.00

LOST OASIS Adventures in and out of the Egyptian desert by Robert Twigger
A great Egypt travelogue. Book is in good condition with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00

LOVE IN THE DRIEST SEASON Neely Tucker - A Family Memoir (Zimbabwe / Africa)
LOVE IN THE DRIEST SEASON: Neely Tucker's emoir of the journalist author's time in Zimbabwe and the battle to adopt an orphan kiddie.

Price: AUD $8.00

MAADI 1904-1962 Samir W. Raafat - Society & History in a Cairo Suburb (Egypt)
MAADI 1904-1962: a rare book documenting the planned Cairo suburb of Maadi.

Price: AUD $30.00

MADAGASCAR TRAVELS Christina Dodwell
The author travel Madagascar by horse and stagecoach, as you do. This book is quite hard to find and looks like a great read.

Price: AUD $9.00

MADAM ARE YOU BACK? Living in Nigeria by Debbie Cashmore
A rare self published memoir by an Australian expat of her time in Nigeria. Has a few pages of black and white photos and some great yarns. Book measures 26 x18 cms. In good condition with clean white pages, light corner wear. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $12.00

MALI BLUES Travelling to an African Beat by Lieve Joris
A scarce Africa travel memoir in very good condition with minimal wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $9.00

MAMA JUDE Judy Steel - An Australian Nurse's Extraordinary Other Life in Africa (Uganda)
MAMA JUDE documents Judy Steel's nursing and development work in Uganda.

Price: AUD $9.00

MAVERICK IN MADAGASCAR by Mark Eveleigh
A hard to find travel book on Madagascar from the most excellent Lonely Planet Journeys series. This is a used book in very good condition: nice and clean and rarely read, pages are bright white and clean. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages - the book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!

Price: AUD $10.00