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Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa’s Lost Headwaters
$50.00 Add to cartGorgeous photos, detailed maps, and a moving personal narrative narrate grueling expeditions to the source of Africa’s famous Okavango Delta, a sanctuary of biodiversity.
Explorers discover signs of A- Author: Boyes, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1426224079
- Language: English
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Scale Boy: An African Childhood
$35.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa–complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.
Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount- Author: Nganang, Patrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0374614512
- Language: English
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
$21.99 Add to cartA “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s Congo
At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europ- Author: Stearns, Jason K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541706064
- Language: English
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Venomous River: Changing Climate, Imperiled Forests, and a Scientist’s Race to Find New Species in the Congo
$29.95 Add to cartJoin herpetologist Eli Greenbaum on his race to identify a multitude of unidentified species in the Congo, a volatile African region overcome with population pressure, military oppression, and climate… [more below]
- Author: Greenbaum, Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368247
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Central Asia
$34.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Central Asia.
Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from staying overnight in an authe
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Mayhew, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1787016749
- Language: English
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
$20.00 Add to cartIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history-from the fall o… [more below]
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400030277
- Language: English
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A Popular History of IDI Amin’s Uganda
$35.00 Add to cartHow Africa’s most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the count- Author: Peterson, Derek R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278381
- Language: English
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller–about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Stuart A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1984899147
- Language: English
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
$19.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.
An unflinching investigation revea- Author: Kara, Siddharth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1250322154
- Language: English
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Uzbekistan
$29.99 Add to cartWritten by Central Asian expert and experienced travel writer Sophie Ibbotson, who is Uzbekistan’s Tourism Ambassador to the UK, this new, fully updated fourth edition of Bradt’s Uzbekistan remains th… [more below]
- Author: Ibbotson, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1804691690
- Language: English
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Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II
$41.00 Add to cartIn the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb — and to make sure nobody saw… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396545
- Language: English
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The Places in Between
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous…an instant travel classic” (Entertainment Weekly).In J… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031566
- Language: English
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu’s brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo:
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062200127
- Language: English
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The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
$21.95 Read moreAn Economist Book of the Year
“A road map for money
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
A ProMarket Book of the Year
One of The Week‘s Ten Best Business Books of the Year- Author: Prasad, Eswar S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293894
- Language: English
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Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle
$16.99 Read moreThe Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In S
- Author: Power, Declan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1504758722
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Road Trips Northern and Central Italy
$24.99 Read moreWith its snow-capped mountain ranges and beautiful hill towns, Italy is an ideal destination for a leisurely road trip. It’s yours to explore with Road Trips Northern and Central Italy, our redesigned… [more below]
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0241461529
- Language: English
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American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
$35.00 Read moreA compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil
Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American- Author: Stolzenberg, Nomi M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691199779
- Language: English
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Who Were Stanley and Livingstone?
$5.99 Read moreJoin the American journalist Henry Morton Stanley on his amazing quest to find David Livingstone, England’s most celebrated explorer, in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series! … [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Gigliotti, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0399544194
- Language: English
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American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa
$30.00 Read moreThis biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa.
Richard Dorsey- Author: Mohun, Arwen P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828190
- Language: English
