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Egyptology

By: Ian Andrew, Dugald Steer

Candlewick

A new discovery from the publishers of DRAGONOLOGY!

Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition - a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread.

Here are just a few of EYGPTOLOGY's special features:

1) an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems

2) a playable game of Senet(ancient Egyptian checkers) including playing board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules

3) a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs

4) a scrap of "mummy cloth"

5) a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut

6) a gilded eye-of-Horus amulet with a "jewel"

7) fold-out maps

8) drawings and photogra...

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

By: Peter Allison

The Lyons Press

Egypt (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

By: DK Publishing

DK Travel

Frommer's South Africa (Frommer's Complete)

By: Pippa de Bruyn

Frommers

• Completely updated every 2 years, Frommer's South Africa features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you and a brand new history and culture chapter.
• Our author, a lifelong resident of South Africa, hits all the highlights-including safaris in South Africa and Botswana, side trips to Victoria Falls, and vineyard tours outside Cape Town. She's checked out all the region's best game lodges, hotels, and restaurants in person; and she offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget.
• You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of World Cup 2010; the South African political dynamic and its effects on travel in the region; active travel advice in nearly every destination chapter;...

Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, an...

By: Peter Allison

The Lyons Press

Bill Bryson's African Diary

By: Bill Bryson

Broadway

Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International.

Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to eradicating poverty. Kenya is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves and a vibrant culture. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he is on the dangers posed by snakes, insects and large predators. It is also a country with many serious problems: refugees, AIDS, drought, and grinding poverty. The resultant diary, though short in length, contains the trademark Bryson stamp of wry observation and curious insight.

Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa

By: Hans Silvester

Thames & Hudson

The scene of tribal conflicts and guerrilla incursions, Ethiopias Omo Valley is also home to fascinating rites and traditions that have survived for thousands of years. The nomadic people who inhabit the valley share a gift for body painting and elaborate adornments borrowed from nature, and Hans Silvester has captured the results in a series of photographs made over the course of numerous trips.

Out of Africa (Modern Library)

By: Isak Dinesen

Modern Library

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Bon...

Long Way Down: An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa

By: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman

Atria

Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers.
Two bikers. One amazing adventure...

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth.

And so they set off on their 15,000-mile journey with two new BMWs loaded up for the trip. Their route took them from John O'Groats at the northernmost tip of Scotland to Cape Agulhas on the southernmost tip of South Africa.

Along the way they rode some of the toughest terrain in the world -- and met some of the friendliest people. They rode their bikes right up to the pyramids in Egypt ...

Morocco (Country Guide)

By: Paul Clammer

Lonely Planet

Roam Morocco's labyrinthine souqs, scrunch your toes into the sunset sand and let our guide take you to the cafs and hammams only the locals know.

Fodor's Egypt, 3rd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)

By: Fodor's

Fodor's

Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by resident writers and experts.

Egypt - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Jailan Zayan

Kuperard

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include


* customs, values, and ...

Tanzania (Country Guide)

By: Mary Fitzpatrick

Lonely Planet

Discover Tanzania

Spy on vultures in their nests as you float over the Serengeti in a hot-air balloon
Watch villagers slip by along the shoreline as you cruise down Lake Tanganyika
Rest your elbow on a sack of vegetables as you rattle south on the Tazara train
Jump off a dhow into Zanzibar's warm shallows, and snorkel among shoals of fish

In This Guide:

Give something back: packed with community tourism spotlights and sustainable travel recommendations
Special chapters on trekking and safaris to help you choose the best operators
New color wildlife section with all the facts about both predators and prey

Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through The World's Most Dangerous Country

By: Tim Butcher

Grove Press

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

Scribner

Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things, he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also had to learn how to negotiate the complexit...

Egypt (Country Guide)

By: Matthew Firestone, Rafael Wlodarski, Anthony Sattin, Zora O'Neill

Lonely Planet

Discover Egypt

Find a Cairo coffeehouse to suit your own style; unwind, chat and inhale deeply over a sheesha
Forget hot springs: try a hot sand bath in the middle of the desert
Take belly-dancing lessons from the most famous teacher in Egypt
Relax in the soft light of early morning on a Nile cruise

In This Guide:

Five authors, 295 days of research, hundreds of touts and a week-long scuba course
Special chapter on cruising the Nile: choose from timeless feluccas and splendid dahabiyyas, the Rolls Royce of their era
Illustrated Pharaonic Egypt chapter by world-renowned Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher brings the ancient rulers to life

South Africa Lesotho & Swaziland (Country Guide)

By: James Bainbridge

Lonely Planet

Hiking, biking and flying amid craggy peaks and open plains, or watching a spectacular desert sunset, becomes possible with this guidebook. Watch wildlife in the savannah, engage in the vibrant cultures of San, Khoikhoi, Zulu and Xhosa or live it up in cities bursting with culinary, cultural and vineyard delights.

Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.

In This Guide:

Unique Green Index to help you make your travels ecofriendly
Expanded itineraries take you from cape to coast or on the roads less travelled
Color wildlife chapter written by a...

The Shadow of the Sun

By: Ryszard Kapuscinski

Vintage

When Africa makes international news, it is usually because war has broken out or some bizarre natural disaster has taken a large number of lives. Westerners are appallingly ignorant of Africa otherwise, a condition that the great Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuciski helps remedy with this book based on observations gathered over more than four decades.

Kapuciski first went to Africa in 1957, a time pregnant with possibilities as one country after another declared independence from the European colonial powers. Those powers, he writes, had "crammed the approximately ten thousand kingdoms, federations, and stateless but independent tribal associations that existed on this continent in the middle of the nineteenth century within the borders of barely forty colo...

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca

By: Tahir Shah

Bantam

In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his familys move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore convergeand nothing is as easy as it seems.

Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, Tahir Shah dreamed of making a home in that astonishing country. At age thirty-six he got his chance. Investing what money he and his wife, Rachana, had, Tahir packed up his growing family and bought Dar Khalifa, a crumbling ruin of a mansion by the sea in Casablanca that once belonged to the citys caliph, or...

A Far-Off Place

By: Laurens van der Post

Harvest Books

Tanzania - Rwanda - Burundi Map by Nelles (Nelles Maps) (English, French and German Edition)

By: Nelles Verlag

Nelles Verlag GmbH

Folded road & tourist map of Tanzania at 1:1,500,000 scale. Places of interest, national parks, beaches, lodges/camps are highlighted. Shaded-relief coloring clearly depicts topography. Insets include Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar-Stonetown, Arusha, Pemba Island, and Zanzibar Island (Unguja). Legend in 3 languages.

Wired: Contemporary Zulu Telephone Wire Baskets

By: David Arment, Marisa Fick-Jordaan

Museum of New Mexico Press

The manufacture and decorative use of wire in Southern Africa traditional arts dates back to the first millennium AD. With advancements in telecommunications, a new type of wire - multi-colored plastic-coated copper wire, often referred to as telephone wire - came into being. Beginning in the late 1960's, Zulu night watchmen started weaving scraps of this wire around their traditional sticks. This new material was also applied to making izimbenge - beer pot covers - that had been traditionally made from grass and palm. Today, there is wide variety in the creative use of this wire, and, in post-Apartheid South Africa, Zulu craft artists are imbuing old forms with the colourful contemporary material of telecommunications. The result is a vibrant, distinctive new folk form gaining internat...

Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa

By: Norman Arlott, Phil Hockey, Ian Sinclair

Struik Publishers

This eagerly awaited new edition of The Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa has been brought fully up to date with the third edition of the Field Guide to Birds of Southern Africa. The new edition incorporates the most recent information about bird taxonomy, as well as the latest bird names based on recommendations of the International Ornithological Committee. All distribution maps have been revised and feature dual shading to show relative abundance of a species in the region, as well as crosses to indicate the occurrence of vagrants. Numerous illustrations have been updated and revised where necessary. The essays on identifying problem species have also been revised and updated to bring the book in line with international birding developments.

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By: Doris Lessing

Harper Perennial

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country."--New York Times Book Review

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World

By: Paul Bowles

Harper Perennial

Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

Mali Map by ITMB

By: International Travel Maps and Books

International Travel Maps and Books

Folded, indexed, road and tourist map of Mali showing major highways and roads, cities, and towns at a scale of 1:2,400,000 (1" to 38 miles). Places of interest, historic sites, national parks, airports, rail routes and archaeological sites are highlighted. Texts describe early European explorations by Henry Barth, Rene Callie and Major Gordon Laing. Charts show precipitation, the Mali empire and road distances between major centers. Inset maps of Bamako and Timbuktu (Tombouctou). Legend in English.

Watching Wildlife Southern Africa

By: Matthew Firestone

Lonely Planet

Get up close and personal with Southern Africa's amazing wildlife with this all-in-one safari guide

Cheetah and springbok race in a 100km/hour sprint to the death in the Kalahari; a vast grey mass of elephants surround you on their way to the riverbanks; a million flamingos lay a pink planket over the mudflats.

Whether you're on a top-shelf luxury safari or going it alone in a rented minivan, prepare for the wildlife experience of your life.

In This Guide:

What do you want to see? Highlights and customized itineraries give you the top wildlife experiences
Plan your safai with practical advice from Lonely Planet's Africa experts
Discover what's where and how to find it - indepth coverage of the major parks and reserves
Be first to name-c...

Vertical Ethiopia, Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa

By: Majka Burhardt

Shama Books

What if the very country that claims the Cradle of Humanity is also the next Mecca for adventure: In March of 2007, four women traveled to northern Ethiopia to climb virgin sandstone towers in the Horn of Africa. They explored rock monoliths in a region that is best known for the drought and famine of the 1980s and was the site of one of the bloodiest massacres of the Derg. Vertical Ethiopia is the narrative of their journey. Told through a series of vignettes that reveal what it means to climb, to travel, and to explore, Vertical Ethiopia looks closely at the intersections between adventure and culture, history and opportunity, and sky and sandstone.

National Parks of East Africa (Collins Field Guides)

By: J. G. Williams

HarperCollins Publishers

A guide to the national parks, game reserves and animal sanctuaries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. 400 mammals and birds are described, as well as the park's interesting features, resident species, and access and accommodation. 25 reserves are illustrated with maps.

Spectrum Guide to Ethiopia (The Spectrum Guides Series)

Interlink Publishing Group

Egypt: Caught in Time (Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives)

By: Colin Osman

Garnet Education

While Egypt is one of the most-photographed countries of the world, and many of its monuments are familiar sights, these photographs are evocative of life in the country before the rush of modernization swept away many traditions. Ancient temples and ruins long-since demolished for their stones, or lost under the waters of Lake Nasser, were saved for posterity in these pioneering photographs. Historical events such as the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the aftermath of the British bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 are included, as well as orientalist portraits of dancing girls and musicians. The domes and minarets of the Cairo skyline present the image of a city not far from its Mamluke and Ottoman past. Even the pyramids are seen afresh when the figures before them are Arabs ...

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By: Wilfred Thesiger

Flamingo

An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer. At the age of twenty-three, three years after attending the coronation of Haile Selassie, Thesiger made his first expedition into the country of the murderous Danakil tribe. Since then he has traversed the Empty Quarter twice, spending five years among the Bedu, followed by several years living as no Westerner had in the strange world of the Marshmen of Iraq. Later he made many mountain journeys in the awesome ranges of the Karakorams, the Hindu Kush, Ladakh and Chitral. After these varied and often dangerous adventures among fast-disappearing cultures, Thesiger settled down to spend over t...

African Animal Tracks

By: James Kavanagh

Waterford Press

Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace (Music Culture)

By: Deborah Kapchan

Wesleyan

A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, author Deborah Kapchan explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams they produce. Her narrative details the fascinating intrinsic properties of trance, including det...

The Cradle of Humankind: World Heritage Sites of South Africa (World Heritage Sites of South Afri...

By: David Fleminger

30 Degrees South

Let Southbound take you back to where we came from - The Cradle of Humankind in the Magaliesberg region of the Gauteng and North West provinces of South Africa and uncover the myths and intricacies of our species in this delightfully entertaining and informative guide.

Ta-dah! Introducing the ancestral cast- Mrs. Ples (or is that Mr.?), the Taung child, Little Foot... and a host of fossil extras and where they hung out - the caves of Sterkfontein, Kromdraai and Swartkranz

Then digging 'em all up - Raymond Dart, Robert Broom, Ron Clarke, Lee Burger et al

History of the area and the people, the fauna and flora

Detailed maps, color photographs, route guides

Comprehensive listings for travellers of places to go, things to see, and accommodation

Couscous and Tagines: Two Moroccan Classics

By: Kitty Morse

Amazon

Tired of pasta and chicken Florentine? Come into my kitchen and discover a new take on Mediterranean cuisine. Let me introduce you to the exotic flavors of Morocco, the country where I was born, with my favorite vegetable couscous and meat tagine redolent of saffron, cinnamon, and fresh herbs....

Travels in Egypt and Nubia (The Great Adventures)

By: Giovanni Battista Belzoni

White Star

In this diary, engineer and explorer of Egyptian antiquities Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), recounts a life story as entertaining as the best fiction. Beginning with his childhood in Padua where he was one of 13 children, moving on to his early adulthood in England where he was a member of a circus troupe, and, finally, his later years spent searching for antiquities in Egypt in an era when the desert sands concealed boundless treasures, Belzoni's diary chronicles an extraordinary life. His discoveries, including the temple at Abu Simbel, the pyramid of Khafre, and the tomb of Seti I, made a fundamental contribution to our knowledge of ancient Egypt, yet Belzoni has remained obscure-until now. His journal gives readers fresh insight into an exciting time in the history of arch...

East African Wildlife (Bradt Travel Guide)

By: Philip Briggs

Bradt Travel Guides

Lost Africa: The Eyes Of Origin

By: Cyril Christo, Marie Wilkinson

Assouline

In his Prophecies , Leonardo Da Vinci once proclaimed, All men will take refuge in Africa. What better place to re-create oneself than in that oldest of continents, the birthplace of the human race? It has been nearly thirty years since Cyril Christo first set foot in East Africa, and climbed its highest peak, Mount Killimanjaro, Tanzania. Years later, he went back with his wife, Marie Wilkinson, and today, he continues with faith, determination, and sadness to document the disappearance of the essence of Africa, land of space, nature and animals. With penetrating black and white images and a lyrically evocative essay, Lost Africa is a tribute to the beauty of this huge continent and a song for a timeless Africa.

Hammond Atlas of the Middle East and North Africa

Hammond World Atlas Corporation

Excellent educational atlas for the Middle East and Northern Africa. Includes chapters on individual Middle East countries providing information on the country's statistics, political structure, resources, and economy. Includes regional information and thematic maps on physical features, population, languages, religion, petroleum and gas, culture, and cllimate.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt

By: Farid Atiya, Abeer El-Shahawy

American University in Cairo Press

Cairos Egyptian Museum houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. Some 150,000 pieces are exhibited, and another 30,000 are held in storerooms. This book carries full-color illustrations of many of the masterpieces of ancient art in the museum from the decorated vases, flint knives, and palettes of the predynastic period, through the magnificent artifacts of the pharaonic period, to the beautiful tempera portraits of the Roman period.

Mala Mala: Pathway to an African Eden

By: Jamie Thom, Amanda Lumry

Eaglemont Press

Talented photographers Amanda Lumry and Jamie Thom recreate through exquisite images the thrill of safari adventure at MalaMala, the largest privately owned game reserve in South Africa. This heartfelt pictorial account celebrates one of the most biodiverse areas remaining on earth.

Tanzania Travel Map (Globetrotter Travel Map)

By: Globetrotter

Globetrotter

Features key attractions, where to stay, distance and climate charts, and stunning photographs.

All of Egypt : From Cairo to Abu Sinbel , Sinai

By: Giovanna Magi

Bonechi Guides

The Wilderness Guardian: A Practical Handbook

By: Tim Corfield

Longman Kenya Ltd

The Frozen Leopard: Hunting My Dark Heart in Africa (Destinations)

By: Aaron Latham

Touchstone Books

This is an eloquent, impassioned account of one man's adventures across Africa and into the depths of his soul on a quest to recover the magic of belief in himself, misplaced along life's journey. With spare, exquisite prose, the book is a map of rebirth for a creative man in his mid-forties. 1 map.

Trekking in the Atlas Mountains (Cicerone Guide)

By: Karl Smith

Cicerone Press

"The Atlas Mountains of Morocco" offer an incredible variety of scenery, climate and terrain, where the Berbersi way of life has changed little in a thousand years. There are also opportunities to walk and climb throughout the year, making it a particularly desirable destination for the outdoor enthusiast. This new edition, now fully updated, provides you with all the information to help make your trip a successful one. The guide includes: a useful introduction providing all the practical advice you will require as a visitor to Morocco; detailed descriptions of walks to the three regions of Toubkal, Mgoun Massif and Jebel Sahro; a separate chapter on other areas for walking in Morocco; and a comprehensive appendix outlining useful addresses, bibliography and a glossary and information o...

Let's Go 2003: South Africa

By: Let's Go Inc.

Let's Go Publications

The Resource for the Independent Traveler

For over forty years Let's Go Travel Guides have brought budget savvy travelers closer to the world and its diverse cultures by providing the most up-to-date information.

Egypt Pocket Guide: Sinai (Siliotti, Alberto. Egypt Pocket Guide.)

By: Alberto Siliotti

American University in Cairo Press

This book covers the natural environments of the remarkable Sinai peninsula-the coral reefs, the desert, the oases, the prehistory and history from Moses and the Exodus to the modern period, and the places-al-Tor, Ras Muhammad, Sharm al-Sheikh, Dahab, Nuweiba, Taba, St. Catherine's and al-Arish. 150 color photographs, maps, plans, 3-D drawings.

Malachite - A Journey in Africa

By: Paul Marketos

Minerva Press