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  • Whispers from the Depths

    The Kariba Story

    by Mike Wickins ...
    Liz and Mike Wickins' book Whispers from the Depths ... The Kariba Story is more than just the story of the building of the Kariba Dam in the mid-1950s. Built in just five years against overwhelming odds, the dam is a monument to engineering excellence. Shrouded in political undertones, the construction of the dam was vital for the hydroelectric power it would provide for Zambia's burgeoning ... Read more

    $9.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Last Train to Zona Verde

    My Ultimate African Safari

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author of Dark Star Safari journeys across western Africa in this "thoroughly engrossing [and] at times tragic" travelogue ( Washington Post).Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Morning, Mr. Mandela

    A Memoir

    **“In Good Morning, Mr. Mandela, Zelda la Grange recounts her remarkable life at the right hand of the man we both knew and loved. It's a tribute to both of them—to Madiba's eye for talent and his capacity for trust and to Zelda's courage to take on a great challenge and her capacity for growth. This story proves the power of making politics personal and is an important reminder of the lessons ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa.

    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London.The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.This edition includes illustrations.Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pilgrims Rest: An Historical Novel Of A Pioneering Family's Struggle In 1870s South Africa

    When Mary Llewellyn’s husband is killed in a battle between Welsh and English miners in poverty-stricken Wales, she resolves to forge a new life in the South African sun with her children.However, after overcoming a dangerous journey beset by snakes, crocodiles and hostile warriors, all is not as they had hoped in the village of Pilgrims Rest. Change is on the move in 1870s South Africa and Mary, ... Read more

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  • The Harmless People

    “A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Koevoet

    Experiencing South Africa's Deadly Bush War

    by Jim Hooper ...
    Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since its release over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the original in capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africa's deadly bush war. Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access to Koevoet, the elite South West African Police counterinsurgency unit - also known as Operation K and officially as the South West Africa ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadows in an African Twilight

    Game Ranger Soldier - Hunter

    by Kevin Thomas ...
    Game Ranger, Special Force Soldier, Professional Hunter and Personal Security Officer - Shadows in an African Twilight is a collection of fascinating stories about a life of adventure spread across nearly four decades in Africa and culminating in Iraq.Many of the stories are not for the squeamish and tell of the aberrant behavior of man-eating lions and killer crocodiles, stories of courageous ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Sharpeville

    An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences

    by Tom Lodge ...
    On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Flechas

    Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965–1974

    by John P. Cann ...
    Series Book 11 - Africa@War
    In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the uprisings of March of 1961 in the north of Angola, Portugal poured troops into the colony as fast as ... Read more

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  • The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct

    The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle is a detailed account and analysis of the Second Anglo-Boer War, which took place between 1899 and 1902. Written by the famous author of Sherlock Holmes, the book serves as both a historical chronicle and a defense of the British military effort in South Africa. Conan Doyle presents the causes of the conflict, including the ... Read more

    $0.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Boer War

    The author H. Rider Haggard is today best remembered for classics of the action-adventure genre such as She and King Solomon's Mines. But these masterworks of "lost world" fiction had their roots in Haggard's real-life experiences in what is now known as South Africa, where he lived for a time as a young man. In this nonfiction account of the brutal conflict that gripped the region in the late ... Read more

    $3.99 USD