Cultural Region/Southern Africa
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Wildlife of Southern Africa
$21.95 Read moreThe definitive guide for identifying Southern Africa’s wildlife
Highly portable, concise, and informative, this is the essential guide for identifying Southern Africa’s most visible wildlife. Featurin- Series: Princeton Pocket Guides #6
- Author: Withers, Martin B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 28 2011
- ISBN10: 069115063X
- Language: English
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The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This “elegant” and “unfailingly empathetic” narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most e… [more below]
- Author: Fairbanks, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1476725276
- Language: English
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Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised Edition
$39.95 Add to cartA substantially revised and expanded new edition of the bestselling standard field guide for southern Africa, now with a dedicated app providing access to vocalizations
Now in its fifth edition, Birds- Series: Princeton Field Guides #159
- Author: Sinclair, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691248494
- Language: English
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Ndima Ndima
$19.99 Add to cartFrom debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters-and her community–through times of drought and violence in … [more below]
- Author: Mapepa, Tsitsi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 194639596X
- Language: English
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Las Bellas Hijas de Mufaro: Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Spanish Edition) a Caldecott Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartThis high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom.
Mufaro tiene dos bellas hijas. Nyasha es arn… [more below]
- Series: Reading Rainbow Books
- Author: Steptoe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0688154816
- Language: Spanish
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Cry of the Kalahari
$22.99 Add to cart“A remarkable story beautifully told…Among such classics as Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man and Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist.”–Chicago Tribune
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a p- Author: Owens, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0395647800
- Language: English
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The Cowboy and His Elephant
$20.00 Add to cartIn the late 1980s, a female baby elephant was born on the plains of Southern Africa. In a cull, her family was slaughtered. Only the newborn female’s life was spared. Terrified and bewildered the youn
- Author: MacPherson, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0312304064
- Language: English
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Diamond Boy
$19.99 Add to cartMy father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything.
“Diamonds for everyone.” That’s what fifteen-year-old P- Author: Williams, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316320684
- Language: English
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The Day Gogo Went to Vote
$8.99 Add to cartIllustrated in rich pastels, this child’s-eye view of an important milestone in South African history allows young readers to experience every detail of this eventful day.
- Author: Sisulu, Elinor Batezat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316702714
- Language: English
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A Labyrinth of Secrets
$19.99 Add to cartTo avoid an arranged marriage, Joanna Nel flees Cape Town, distancing herself from a shocking secret revealed by her mother,
Petra, and escaping from a dangerous man. But life in Durban presents its o
- Author: Hayward, Glynnis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1736332821
- Language: English
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South Africa Wildlife: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals in the South African Region
$8.95 Add to cartWith various world-renowned national parks and game reserves, as well as a dizzying species diversity, South Africa is widely considered the ultimate destination for observing and learning about Afric… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Naturalist Guide
- Author: Kavanagh, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 12
- Publish Date: November 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1583559876
- Language: English
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Pickup
$22.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
“Ranks as one of Gordimer’s best novels…It transcends politics and aims at a meaning higher than human striving.”—
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Africa- Author: Gordimer, Nadine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024048
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
$18.99 Read moreNow a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
W- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0803740808
- Language: English
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa.
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars- Author: Mathabane, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848287
- Language: English
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A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
$32.95 Add to cartDuring the West’s great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported element… [more below]
- Author: Wessels, Hannes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1612003451
- Language: English
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The Covenant
$22.99 Add to cartJames A. Michener’s masterly chronicle of South Africa is an epic tale of adventurers, scoundrels, and ministers, the best and worst of two continents who carve an empire out of a vast wilderness. Fro… [more below]
- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0812986695
- Language: English
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Who Was Nelson Mandela?
$5.99 Add to cartAs a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in pri… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479338
- Language: English
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Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story
$9.99 Add to cart“Has no equal. Evocative and haunting.” (School Library Journal starred review)
The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of thei
- Author: Naidoo, Beverley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0062881795
- Language: English
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
$28.99 Read moreA “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s prot?g? by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transit… [more below]
- Author: Malala, Justice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982149736
- Language: English
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Innards: Stories
$27.95 Add to cartSet in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid with grit, wit, and their own distinctive bewilderin
- Author: Makhene, Magogodi Oamphela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051000
- Language: English
