The Kenya Adventures of John Trevelyn (Market Manager -Africa in the 1960's) by John Trevelyn $0.99
KenyaJohn continues his African saga from his Nairobi base camp. A relationship with a young Indian woman produces an unexpected private business. Now we have three different cultures operating under three different sets of old established, traditional, ground rules. How John weaves them together shows a rare understanding of how these rules work. In the process he exposes how differently things...
How I Found Livingstone (The American journalists) by Ayer Co Pub $58.95
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IT. ZANZIBAR. On the morning of the 6th January, 1871, we were sailing through the channel that separates the fruitful island of Zanzibar from Africa. The high lands of the continent loomed like a...
West With The Night by The Easton Press
The Man-Eaters Of Tsavo And Other East African Adventures by Filiquarian $7.99
President Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, "I think that the incident of the Uganda man-eating lions, is the most remarkable account of which we have any record. It is a great pity that it should not be preserved in permanent form." Now this timeless original account by Col. John Henry Patterson has been which was preserved over time is republished in this paperback edition. This is an excellent...
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Lyons Press $16.95
Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals-herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides whose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous...
Bush Pigs: A Short Story by Richard Dooling $0.99
Originally published in the New Yorker, this harrowing tale of reverse culture shock is a cult favorite among expats who wander abroad and are unprepared for the shock that awaits them upon return to the first world. After three years in the bush, a Peace Corps Volunteer is evacuated from war-torn Sierra Leone and sent home to Omaha, Nebraska, where he attempts to celebrate his return in a steak...
Into Africa by Bantam Press $91.55
In 1866, Britain's foremost explorer, David Livingstone, went in search of the source of the Nile. He was not seen again for nearly six years. This was not the first long term expedition Livingstone had undertaken, but it was rare for him not to send regular reports back to London. To all intents and purposes he had disappeared into the African jungle. The British government made no efforts to...
Out of Africa (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) by Modern Library $19.95
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near...
In Morocco by Aegypan $11.95
Edith Wharton, the wondrous novelist, wrote this travelogue just after World War I -- basing it on a tour she'd made during the war itself! "Within a few years far more will be known of the past of Morocco, but that past will be far less visible to the traveler than it is today," she wrote in her introduction. "Excavations will reveal fresh traces of Roman and Phoenician occupation; the remote...
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Back Bay Books $14.99
Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara. The ordeal of these men - who found themselves tested by barbarism,...