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'A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron' Jim Crace
'A most absorbing and rewarding book' Michael Palin
A moving portrait ...
In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but ...
Timbuktu has long been seen as a paradise to Westerners who had, for centuries, led perilous and mostly failed 'discovery' expeditions to the city. It ...
By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had ...
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver
In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ...
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration ...
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a ...
