Travel / Africa

Lonely Planet Morocco

by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge & Alison Bing

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Morocco is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await...

Tanzania - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Quintin Winks

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive...

Lonely Planet Marrakesh & Central Morocco: Chapter from Morocco Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other'. New York Times

This eBook offering is an excerpt of Lonely Planet's latest Morocco guide book and includes:

• Marrakesh & Central Morocco chapters
• Understanding...

Lonely Planet Tanzania

by Lonely Planet, Mary Fitzpatrick & Tim Bewer

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Tanzania is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await...

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

by V.S. Naipaul

Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity...

Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

by William Langewiesche

It is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said thatmigratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. William Langewiesche...

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa

by Tony Fitzjohn

Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen...

South African Art Now

by Sue Williamson

Described by international curator Okwui Enwezor as "one of the most dynamic and vigorous spaces of artistic practice," contemporary South African art is an exciting, emerging scene that is attracting the attention...

Mauritius - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Tim Cleary

Mauritius is a conundrum. A small, exotic, multiethnic island nation in the Indian Ocean, to some it is a multicultural “rainbow,” a haven of peace, love, and understanding. Others see it as ethnically divided,...

Walking in the Drakensberg

by Jeff Williams

Walking guide to u-Khahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, accessible from Johannesburg, Harrismith, Pietermaritzburg and Durban. 75 day walks, up to 20km, in Royal Natal...

The Race for Timbuktu

by Frank T. Kryza

In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers––and fortune hunters––than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City...

African Safari Journal and Field Guide: A Wildlife Guide, Trip Organizer, Map Directory, Safari Directory, Phrase Book, Safari Diary and Wildlife Chec

by Mark W. Nolting & Duncan Butchart

The African Safari Journal & Field Guide is the perfect book to take on safari because it is a wildlife guide, trip organizer, phrase book, safari diary, map directory and wildlife checklist, all in one! And...

Rainbow's End

by Lauren St John

This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .

In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with...

A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

by Suzanna Clarke

The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways,...

Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria

by Rotimi T. Suberu

Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria explores and analyses the underlying sources and salient features of recent ethnic minority conflicts in Nigeria, the largely controversial policies by which...

Nigeria during the Abacha Years (1993-1998)

by ‘Kunle Amuwo, Daniel C. Bach, Nicole Chevillard & Alex Gboyega et al.

The autocratic regime of Sani Abacha (1993-1998) stands out as a watershed in the history of independent Nigeria. Nigeria’s darkest years since the civil war resulted from his unrestrained personal rule; very...

Lonely Planet West Africa

by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham & Jean-Bernard Carillet

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet West Africa is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await...

Lonely Planet Southern Africa

by Lonely Planet, Alan Murphy & Kate Armstrong

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Southern Africa is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries...

Glory in a Camel¿s Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara

by Jeffrey Tayler

Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as an emerging master of travel writing, Tayler penetrates one of the most forbidding regions on Earth. Journeying along routes little altered since the...

MacBook Pro Portable Genius

by Brad Miser

Update to the quintessential hip, helpful guide to the MacBook Pro

Just like your MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro Portable Genius, Second Edition is easy to carry, power-packed, and helps keep your Apple digital lifestyle...