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In Nairobi, slick advertising has made few inroads, and shopping malls and supermarkets remain a rarity. People buy their daily necessities locally, from small traders within their communities. Business owners paint their own billboards and signs, or...

Strange Borderlands, Ben Berman's first full-length collection, counterpoises insights with uncertainties while chronicling the poet's immersion in a new culture. In compelling metrical, free verse and prose poems, Berman provides a vivid narrative of...

- Complete guide to the amazingly varied treasures of Libya A practical guide to visiting the many treasures of Libya - desert landscapes, vast classical ruins and vibrant modern cities. Wendy Buthfer lived and worked in Libya for 10 years and knows it...

Presented in a landscape format with vivid photographs of Africa, this book offers a pictorial exploration of this great and varied continent in all its majesty. The world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants,...

An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in this powerful history of living abroad while Black. Part historical exploration, part travel memoir, Beyond the...

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological...

East Africa is known for its diverse landscapes - expansive savannas, lakes, and towering mountains - but also for its numerous protected areas: its parks and reserves that are the domain of the continent's most spectacular wildlife. These areas play a...

- An ode to South Africa's stunning nature and to its people. A story of magnificent discoveries and meeting new friendsFor the past twenty years, photographer Mirjam Bleeker and stylist Frank Visser have traveled around the world together many times...

The Tharaud brothers became unique eyewitnesses to history when summoned in 1917 from the Western Front to Morocco by the Resident-General of the French Protectorate there, Lyautey. The colonial conquest of Morocco had been put on hold after the French...

On the Hunt in West Africa finds Bostonian Pat Spain, an inexperienced but enthusiastic traveler and wildlife biologist, on the first shoot of his new National Geographic TV series in Cameroon, the Congo, and the Central African Republic. He was told it...

Why has Madagascar has failed to make any meaningful progress since independence? A mix of journalism and scholarship, the book is the result of almost nine months spent on the ground in Madagascar travelling and interviewing a wide range of political...