Author: Peter Allison

Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling ...

Author: Mary H. Kingsley

Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.

Author: Robert Twigger

Best-selling author of Angry White Pyjamas, Big Snake and Voyageur enters into the desert in search of a lost oasis

Author: Philippe Bourseiller

Sprawling over 3.5 million square miles, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, the Sahara is a mythical land, enchanting not only for its extreme beauty but also for its complex culture. Wrapping its arid terrain aroun ...

Author: Jolijn Geels

This first English-language guide to the Saharan country of Niger spans the densely populated regions of the south--a colorful melting pot of cultures--and the hostile desert landscape of the north--featuring some of the ...

Author: Andrew Beattie

The fabled city on the banks of the River Nile, once home to pharaohs and emperors, now forms a focal point of the Islamic faith and of the Arab world. Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of th ...

Author: Chenjerai Hove

Throughout southern Africa, shebeens are where jokes are born, news is embellished and exchanged, fights erupt and subside. They are unique vantage points where men go after a day's work, both to escape from the troubled ...

Author: Sue Dobson

New for 2008, Travellers Namibia is the perfect guidebook for visitors wanting to discover this land of remarkable contrasts, with national parks, canyons, deserts and coastal reserves in abundance.It provides expert adv ...

Author: Sue Dobson

New for 2008, Travellers Cape Verde is the perfect guidebook for visitors wanting to explore the stunning and diverse islands of the archipelago.It provides expert advice, tracking down the best sights and experiences. I ...

Author: Melissa Shales

Travellers Kenya takes you to the heart of a nation at the crossroads of Africa, home to one of the world's greatest reservoirs of wildlife, with an extraordinary variety of natural habitats, from coral reefs to open gra ...

Author: Lizzie Williams

Namibia is one of the world's last true wildernesses, home to the highest sand dunes, the oldest desert and the only place you might catch a glimpse of the rare black rhino, or desert-dwelling elephants. With a wealth of ...

Author: Brandon Wilson

Description: What does it take to follow your dreams? DEAD MEN DON'T LEAVE TIPS: Adventures X Africa by Brandon Wilson is an edge of your seat tale about a couple's seven month dream odyssey - 10,000 miles across Africa ...

Author: Gianni Celati

In 1997 the Italian novelist Gianni Celati accompanied his friend Jean Talon on a journey to West Africa which took them from Mali to Senegal and Mauritania. Celati kept notebooks of the journey, now translated as "Adven ...

Author: Orin Hargraves

Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular Culture Shock! series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wher ...

Author: Joan Peterson

Hungry travelers to Morocco can have a perfectly delicious trip with this comprehensive food guide, the 6th in the EAT SMART series. The author, recognizing that feeding the traveler's body is as important as feeding the ...

Author: Paul William Roberts

Egypt is as old as history itself. It is home to some of the world's greatest treasures, a pantheon of dazzling gods and kings, and the roots of the civilised world. Today, it is the political and cultural heart of the A ...

Author: Michael Haag

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world, its alleys, mosques, and caravanserais the original setting for the A ...

Author: Jenny Jobbins & Mary D. Megalli

The Mediterranean coast of Egypt stretches for 1,000 kilometers from Sallum in the west to Rafah in the east, exhibiting a variety of littoral landscapes - rocky shores and white sand beaches where the Western Desert mee ...

Author: Martin Hense & Hendrikje M. Nouwens Steven E. Sidebotham

This work contains a detailed survey of the ancient sites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea. For thousands of years, Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, ...

Author: Lesley Kitchen Lababidi

This is a unique perspective on the history of Cairo and the use of the city's space from the author of Cairo: The Family Guide.In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of p ...