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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
FINDING MR MANDINI by Jonathon Morgan and the Great African Spider Writers
A very hard to find and interesting looking book from South Africa. This is a used book in fair condition: pages are browning with age; cover is worn and creased; mild corner curls; looks rough but perfectly readable, rare and cheap. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD 5.00
KOREA A Walk through the land of miracles by Simon Winchester
The author walks 300 miles through Korea. This is a used travel book in crappy condition but perfectly readable, scarce and cheap: cover and corners are creased and worn; name inscription on first page; pages browning with age. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive, we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD 5.00
SAFARI I Won't Cry Mumma by Janet Seath with Frank Scaysbrook
An Australian couple look after a Kenyan boy for a year while he underwent surgery for burns, quite an uplifting read. 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
THE CONSTANT GARDENER John Le Carre
The novel (fiction) that inspired the brilliant film of the same name, set in Kenya.
Price: AUD 5.00
THE RIVER AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
A hard to find China travelogue, looks like a great read. This is a used travel book in average condition: has been read a few times; pages are browning with age; creased corners; a bit rough but perfectly readable, scarce and cheap. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD 5.00
THE WHITE MASAI Corinne Hofmann
A very popular memoir by a European lady who fell in love with a Masai warrior in Kenya, Africa.
Price: AUD 5.00
DARK STAR SAFARI Paul Theroux - Overland from Capetown to Cairo
Dark Star Safari is an African travel classic by legendary travel writer, Paul Theroux.
Price: AUD 6.00
OUR GRANDMOTHER'S DRUMS Mark Hudson
The author visits Dulaba village in Gambia, West Africa, where the women are bound by Islam, female circumcision and subservience to their mothers and men.
Price: AUD 6.00
OUT OF AFRICA And Shadows on the Grass by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
The classic biography that inspired the Meryl Streep/Robert Redford film. Book includes Shadows on the Grass. Book is in good condition with light reading wear. Pages are clean and tanning lightly with age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD 6.00
JOURNEY TO THE JADE SEA by John Hillaby
A great travel adventure in Africa. Book is in good, aging condition: pages are tanning with age, cover shows light wear and general age. Has a spine split but holds together fine. See photos for cover blurb and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD 7.00
SUGAR STREET by Naguib Mahfouz
A scarce novel based in Egypt by a Nobel Prize winning author. Book is in good condition with some reading wear to corners, pages browning at edges with age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD 7.00
THE SUNJATA STORY Translated by Gordon Innes & Bakari Sidibe
A scarce African classic fable.
Price: AUD 7.00
UNDER MY SKIN Doris Lessing
The first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography starting with her childhood in Rhodesia \ Zimbabwe.
Price: AUD 7.00
WINTER IN JULY by Doris Lessing
A classic by the late great Nobel Prize winning author. Book shows a lot of age but is perfectly readable and cheap. Some water marks on first few pages. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD 7.50
A LONG WAY GONE Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
A fascinating biography of a child soldier from Sierra Leone. Book is in good, read condition: corners and curled and creased from reading but otherwise good. Clean and aging lightly. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD 8.00
A PRIMATE'S MEMOIR Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M Sapolsky
The author studies baboons in Kenya, looks like a cracker of a read.
Price: AUD 8.00
AFRICA A Timeless Soul by Sorrel Wilby
A classic by a great Australian adventurer, a very popular travel writer. Book is in good, aging condition. Pages are clean and tanning with age. Cover has a few creases, shows its age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD 8.00
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