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Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In captivating prose, Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion....
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
Language
English
Description
Set in South Africa under white rule, [this book is] both a ... chronicle of human disintegration and an ... understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses.......
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic story encompasses the life of John Clayton, the son of English aristocrats, who was abandoned in the jungle as an infant after the untimely death of his parents. He is adopted by the caring ape Kala and is raised in her tribe of gorillas lead by the intimidating Kerchak. Growing up an outsider among his peers, Tarzan gradually earns the respect of his ape tribe through physical feats and his hunting abilities. This sparks jealously in...
5) Mi leon
Author
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Econm̤ica
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1. ed. en espaǫl.
Language
Español
Description
In a wordless tale, a big red lion makes friends with a little African boy and takes him to see the way the animals live, though neither the big green lion nor the humans in the boy's village approve.
Author
Series
Vorrh novels volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books, A division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Vorrh follows a brilliant cast of characters through a parallel Africa where fact, fiction, and fantasy collide. Tsungali, a native marksman conscripted by the colonial authorities--against whom he once led a revolt--is on the hunt for an English bowman named Williams. Williams has made it his mission to become the first human to traverse the Vorrh, a vast forest at the edge of the colonial city of Essenwald. The Vorrh is endless, eternal; a...
8) Bloodline
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010, ©1980
Language
English
Description
"For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state. J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling...
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true Great Parent has finally risen and must unite all the animals of Bravelands to prevent an ancient evil from taking root"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within one hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers and introduces the men and women who, for better or worse, stamped their wills on Africa. The continent was a magnet for...
14) Africa
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of Africa from earliest times to the present day, and discusses African cultures, travelers in and from Africa, and related topics.
15) Blood and bone
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new Great Father now rules over the animals of Bravelands, but he is not what he seems, and unless the elephant Sky, the baboon Thorn, and the lion Fearless can fight his lies and unite the animals of the plains, the balance of Bravelands may be destroyed forever"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The spirited adventures of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home in deepest Africa. The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire searching for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
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