- Keyword = Africa: History - Biography - Politics
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THROUGH MALAN'S AFRICA.
Edition: Hardcover.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. dj. Hardcover - A first hand look at the explosive racial situation in South Africa at the height of apartheid - and also a book that discusses the hope which can arise from the young liberal leaders - such as Manilal Gandhi, Alan Paton, Luthuli and others. Index. 317 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some chipping to the ends of the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 48965More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA: Kenya Edition.
Edition: A slim paperback, later printing.
Nairobi: Longman Kenya, (1974). An edition modified for use in Kenyan schools. Illustrated with maps and photographs. 46 pp.
Condition: Very good in stapled printed orange wrappers.
Book ID: 80380More details Price: $18.50 -
SCIENCE AND POWER IN COLONIAL MAURITIUS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76119More details Price: $30.00 -
A HISTORY OF CENTRAL AFRICA
Edition: Trade paperback.
London: Longmans, (c 1967). Described in the introduction as an attempt to outline the history of a large area in Africa. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. List of selected readings, glossary, index. 348 pp.
Condition: Good only in illustrated wrappers - missing title page, previous owner's name, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.
Book ID: 85107More details Price: $15.00 -
A HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA, AD 1000-1965.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, (E.A.P.H.), (1975). First edition - While this is a good general history of West Africa, it was also written to cover the syllabus and examination requirements for the West Africa paper as part of the East African Certificate Illustrated with photographs and maps. Includes a glossary, sources, suggestions for further reading, revision notes, questions and an index. 274 pp.
Condition: Very good - previous owner's name stamped, some minor wear to covers - uncommon.
Book ID: 82871More details Price: $27.50 -
THE GREAT TREK.
Edition: Fifth edition.
London: Adam and Charles Black, (1965). Hardcover - Later printing of a book originally published in 1934. The Great Trek was the journey undertaken in South Africa in the late 1830s and 1840s of Afrikander sheep and cattle farmers from the frontier districts of the Cape Colony to Natal the Orange Free State and Transvaal. A title in The Pioneer Histories series. Illustrated with four plates, 3 maps, including 2 folding map.Index vii, 389 pp.
Condition: Good overall in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine - a tight, straight copy but with highlighting throughout. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 79730More details Price: $15.00 -
A HISTORY OF AFRICA: Central Africa: Book 3: Malawi, Rhodesia, Zambia.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1968). First edition - A history of the three countries formerly combined in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Illustrations, maps. Discussion questions, index. 202 pp.
Condition: Good overall in gold wrappers - from a school library with some stamps, discoloration inside covers, toning and foxing to edges of textblock, but still sturdy and readable. Uncommon.
Book ID: 82872More details Price: $25.00 -
DERVISH: The Rise and Fall of an African Empire.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (some short tears to the dj)
Book ID: 87664More details Price: $24.50