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!
Africa
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A GIRL'S OWN ADVENTURE Jacqueline Tomlins - Across Africa Any Way Any How
A GIRL'S OWN ADVENTURE is an Africa travelogue by two thirty-something gals. This book is very popular, we've sold quite a few copies.
Price: AUD $8.00
A TALENT FOR TOMORROW Suzanne Gordon - Life Stories of South African Servants (Africa)
A TALENT FOR TOMORROW is a scarce book of biographies of twenty-three servants from South Africa.
Price: AUD $14.00
A YEAR IN THE WORLD by Frances Mayes
The follow-up to bestselling Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany. This is a used book in good condition: clean with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $5.00
AFRICA Blaine Harden - Dispatches from a Fragile Continent
AFRICA: American reporter Blaine Harden gets behind the picture post-card presentation of modern Africa.
Price: AUD $5.00
AFRICA DANCES Geoffrey Gorer
This looks like an amazing read: this book was first published in 1935, the author travels West Africa with Feral Benga, a famous black dancer, to study native dances.
Price: AUD $9.00
AMAN The Story of a Somali Girl by Aman (Somalia \ Africa)
AMAN is the memoir of a young woman's coming of age in Somlia in which shed describes her circumcision ceremony, her unwanted marriage at the age of 13, and her daring escape to the city which led her into a world of white men, parties and runaway girls.
Price: AUD $5.00
AN AUSTRALIAN ODYSSEY FROM GIZA TO GALLIPOLI Garrie Hutchinson (Turkey, Egypt, Lybia, Jordan, Syria, Greece)
The author travels the route of Alexander the Great to see what remained of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and to make a pilgrimage to where Australian soldiers fought and died.
Price: AUD $10.00
AN EGYPTIAN JOURNAL William Golding (Egypt / Nile River by Boat)
An account of the famous author's travels in Egypt. William Golding is author of The Lord of The Flies. He travels the Nile River in a motor cruiser shortly after winning a Nobel Prize.
Price: AUD $9.00
AN ORDINARY MAN Paul Ruseabagina with Paul Zoellner - The True Story Behind 'Hotel Rwanda'
The autobiography of the man whose exceptional courage inspired the Oscar nominated film, Hotel Rwanda.
Price: AUD $8.00
APRICOTS ON THE NILE Colette Rossant - A Memoir with Recipes (Egypt)
APRICOTS ON THE NILE: A scarce and popular Egypt memoir with recipes.
Price: AUD $10.00
BACK TO AFRICA A JOURNEY Ferdinand Dennis (West Africa)
A West Africa travelogue by an English Jamaican author covering Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana, feeling African by ancestry but not belonging.
Price: AUD $8.00
BANDIET Hugh Lewin - Seven Years in a South African Prison (South Africa)
BANDIET: IN 1964 Hugh Lewin was sentenced to seven years jail in Pretoria for offences to the South African Sabotage Act. Bandiet tells of his arrest and imprisonment.
Price: AUD $10.00
BARROW'S BOYS Fergus Flemming (Worldwide Exploration/History)
BARROW'S BOYS: the story of John Barrow's programme of exploration in the 1800s.
Price: AUD $8.00
BATTLE FOR THE ELEPHANTS Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton
A very hard to find book on the authors' fight to save the African elephant, it looks like an incredible read. This is a used book in good condition: pages are clean and aging lightly; light reading wear to corners; clean cover with scuffing from normal use. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages - the book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!
Price: AUD $19.00
BEASTS OF NO NATION by Uzodinma Iweala
A debut novel based on an African child soldier, looks like a compelling read. First UK edition. Book is in excellent condition, near mint, only slight shelf wear and age. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD $10.00
BEER IN THE SNOOKER CLUB Waguih Ghali (Egypt)
A novel set in Egypt. -- 'A plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace and humor, the Egyptian author chronicles the lives of a polyglot Cairene upper crust, shortly after the fall of King Farouk and thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways...This is the best book to date about post-Farouk Egypt.' -- Los Angeles Times
Price: AUD $8.00
BILL BRYSON'S AFRICAN DIARY by Bill Bryson
A scarce little book of observations from Bill Bryson's travels in Africa with Care International.
Price: AUD $7.00
BIRDS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN CAPE AND WHERE TO WATCH THEM 40 Best Birding Spots in the SW Cape by Wally Petersen and Mel Tripp
A rare South African birdwatching book.
Price: AUD $10.00
BITE OF THE MANGO Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland - An Astounding True Story of Courage, Resilience and Hope
The civil war in Sierra Leone took a brutal toll on young Mariatu Kamara. Heavily armed soldiers attacked her village, torturing her brutally and killing many of the people she loved. During this senseless violence, they cut off both her hands. This is the incredible true story of her courage, resilience and journey of recovery.
Price: AUD $8.00
BLACK + WHITE IN COLOUR African History on Screen Edited by Vivian Bickford Smith and Richard Mendelsohn
A scarce book at a great price, the book was originally purchased for $60 and sells for about US$30 on the major book sites. Book is in very good condition: clean with some light handling wear around the edges, pages are nice and white and clean. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $12.00





















