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  • SHEBA: Through the Desert in the Search for the Legendary Queen. by Clapp, Nicholas.
    Clapp, Nicholas.
    SHEBA: Through the Desert in the Search for the Legendary Queen.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - An archeological adventure: Clapp describes his travels to Yemen, Israel and Ethiopia in his search for the truth behind the legend of Sheba. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-618-219269.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62991
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  • Halladay, Eric.
    THE EMERGENT CONTINENT: Africa in the Nineteenth Century.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An excellent overview of the history of Africa in the years after 1800, focusing on the roles of the Africans themselves, well illustrated with drawings and photographs, six maps. One of the titles in the series Benn's World Histories. Index. 144 pp.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36495
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  • THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands. by Hartley, Aidan.
    Hartley, Aidan.
    THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hartley, a journalist who worked in Africa in the 1990s describes his childhood as the son of a British colonial officer, a legacy that stretched back over 150 years - four generations of one family. As a journalist he witnessed genocidal activities in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Congo; the death of his friends, and heard stories of terrible attrocities. Burnt out by a decade of horrors he retreated to his family's home in Kenya where he found the Zanzibar chest his father had left him and inside the diaries of his father's best friend who had died in mysterious circmstances more than 50 years earlier- and…

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    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hartley, a journalist who worked in Africa in the 1990s describes his childhood as the son of a British colonial officer, a legacy that stretched back over 150 years - four generations of one family. As a journalist he witnessed genocidal activities in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Congo; the death of his friends, and heard stories of terrible attrocities. Burnt out by a decade of horrors he retreated to his family's home in Kenya where he found the Zanzibar chest his father had left him and inside the diaries of his father's best friend who had died in mysterious circmstances more than 50 years earlier- and so he set out on a journey to Southern Arabia to unlock Davey's story and that of his family. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Jim Harrison who called this a stunning piece of writing. Photographs. 415 pp. ISBN: 978-0871138712.

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    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (small spot delaminated on front cover of dj from sticker removal).

    Book ID: 88385
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