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Travel, Gender, and Imperialism : Mary Kingsley and West Africa
Alison Blunt
Paperback - $42.95
Studies of women travel writers have ranged from anecdotal and celebratory accounts to more critical essays on imperialism or the textualization of difference. This book does more. Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth cent ...
Call of the Desert : The Sahara
Philippe Bourseiller
Hardcover - $81.95
Bourseiller is the first to have undertaken such a comprehensive photographic exploration of this mythical territory. The text, written by experts in the field, covers the origins, history, climate, peoples, and future of the Sahara.
Cape Town
Rob Bowden
Hardcover - $65.95
Noted for its European and indigenous cultural influences, beautiful physical setting, and biological diversity, Cape Town is a major seaport and legislative capital of South Africa. Having endured apartheid for 50 years, with the ruling white popula ...
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue : Scenes from the Non-Christian World
Paul Bowles
Paperback - $23.95
"Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue" is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and obser ...
King of the Wa-Kikuyu
John Boyes
Hardcover - $39.95
In all of African history, there is no one quite like John Boyes. There have been better hunters, and certainly greater explorers. Although he's very readable, there have been finer writers. But when it comes to the category of Opportunist, Boyes' na ...
The Company of Adventurers
John Boyes
Paperback - $27.95
During a half century, John Boyes created much of Africa's colorful history. If there was a desert to be crossed, a jungle to be tamed, a government to be swindled, a local tribe to be befriended or exploited, John Boyes was there.
The Company of Adventurers
John Boyes
Hardcover - $39.95
There's never been anyone quite like John Boyes, the most notorious of East Africa's pioneers. This is his true story, his firsthand accounts of exploits on the Dark Continent during the days of the most daring adventurers. There are lots of things y ...