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- Kilimanjaro - Map and Guide
Mark Savage
- Highly recommended by the Lonely Planet, the Map and
Guide to Kilimanjaro by Mark Savage of Savage Wilderness
Safaris provides invaluable information for those
interested in climbing this legendary peak. It includes
an excellent topographical map (1:50,000) of Kilimanjaro
and on the other side details on the various routes,
accommodation, equipment, fauna and flora, geology,
climate, useful contacts, etc.
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- Mt Kenya - Map and Guide
Mark Savage and Andrew
Wielochowski
- Same as above but on Mt Kenya.
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- Kilimanjaro
& Mount Kenya : A Climbing and Trekking Guide
Cameron M. Burns - Mountaineers Books $18.95
- Pre-trip planning, finding and hiring outfitters, and
thorough information on dozens of trails are included in
this comprehensive guide to the 30 top climbing and
trekking routes on Mount Kilimanjaro and her sister peak,
Mount Kenya.
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-
Kilimanjaro
Adventure
Hal Streckert - Mission Press $15.95 + $2.95 (s&h)
- "The gripping story of one family's quest to
reach the top of the African continent".This
book is a fascinating personal account of
climbing Kilimanjaro and going on safari as seen
from a unique family perspective. Recommended by
Pete Schoening (Himalayan climbing legend), Frank
Zane (three time Mr. Olympia), and Wally Schirra
(Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Astronaut). Brings
mountaineering to life and is full of useful
details about the routes, equipment, history,
contacts, etc.
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- To order "Kilimanjaro Adventure" please
e-mail bookings@kilimanjaro.com.
- Altitude
Illness : Prevention & Treatment
Stephen, M.D. Bezruchka - Mountaineers Books $6.95
- How to Stay Healthy at Altitude : From Resort Skiing to
Himalayan Climbing.
Lonely Planet Guidebooks
- Don't leave home without them! The Lonely Planets are
some of the most comprehensive guidebooks out there, and
contain everything indepedent travellers need to know.
Choose from the following:
- The
Rough Guide to Kenya
Richard Trillo - Rough Guides $18.95
- The 1997 edition marks the 10th anniversary of this guide
to Kenya. This 624 page edition features a 16-page color
safari guide identifying more than sixty large African
mammals. Before you buy, read the following book exerpts
from Rough Guide's Web Site: Introduction
to Kenya, Women's
Travel Experiences in Kenya, Ebola
Virus and Kitum Cave, The
Tsavo Poaching Wars, Masai
Voices, and Cradle
of Mankind.
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- East
Africa Handbook
Michael Hodd - Passport Books - $24.95
- With Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia.
Field Guides
Whether you can't tell a leopard from a cheetah or want to
find out more about the birds and animals you see, these are
great books to take with you on safari.
- Mammals
of Africa including Madagascar -
Collins Field Guide Series
T. Haltenorth, H. Diller - Harper Collins $22.00
- "The most comprehensive identification guide to the
mammals of Africa". Includes 63 illustrated color
plates.
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- The
Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals
Richard Despard Estes - Chelsea Green Pub $25
- The first comprehensive guide to watching and
understanding the behaviors of African wildlife. Designed
to be carried along on a wildlife-viewing safari, the
guide allows even a novice wildlife observer to
understand the behavior of nearly one hundred large
mammals, from antelopes, hippos and elephants to lions,
monkeys and gorillas. 100 illustrations.
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- Birds
of East Africa - Collins Field Guide
Series
John G.Williams, Norman Arlott - Harper Collins $26
- Comprehensive guide to Birds of East Africa with
descriptions of over1,283 species. Over 650 species are
illustrated in color and every species has a description
of the features needed to identify it positively in the
wild, with details of plumage, size, voice, flight,
habitat and distribution.
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- National
Parks of East Africa - Collins Field
Guide Series
John G.Williams - Harper Collins $22
- Includes descriptions of all the National Parks and
Reserves in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, as well as
illustrations of the mammals and birds you are most
likely to see there.
- Facing
Mount Kenya - The Tribal Life of the Kikuyu
Jomo Kenyatta - Random House $9.00
- Jomo Kenyatta, the grandson of a Kikuyu medecine man, was
amongst the foremost leaders of African nationalism and
one of the great men of the modern world. His book is a
central document of the highest distinction in
Anthropology litterature, and an invaluable key to the
structure of African society and the nature of the
African mind.
- Out
of Africa
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) - Vintage Books $13.00
- "I had a farm in Africa..." A reissue of the
book that inspired the critically acclaimed movie
version. Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's
years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass.
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- The
Man-Eaters of Tsavo
J.H. Patterson - Pocket Books $6.99
- You have seen "The Ghost and the Darkness", now
get the facts! Dive into one of the most harrowing
episodes of man versus beast ever told. From the pen of
the intrepid officer who risked his life many times, The
Man-Eaters of Tsavo is a terrifying true-life tale in
which men become the hunted.
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- Born
Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
Joy Adamson - Random House $15.00
- Joy Adamson tells the extraordinary story of how she and
her husband were able to rear an orphaned lion cub--not
for a life of captivity, but, rather, for one of freedom
and independence between two radically different worlds.
114 black-and-white photographs.
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- Woman
in the Mists
Farley Mowat - Warner Books $11.99
- The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of
Africa - The first full-length portrait of Dian
Fossey--the world-famous scientist and author of Gorillas
in the Mist whose lonely crusade to save the mountain
gorillas of Africa ended with her murder in December
1985.
- African
Silences
Peter Matthiessen - Vintage Books $12.00
- African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of
the cataclysmic depredation of the African Landscape and
its wildlife. Through Matthiessen's eyes we see
elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered
creatures in the of the wild, and share his hazardous
crossing of the continent in a light plane.
"Matthiessen...is our greatest modern nature writer
in the lyrical tradition" (New York Times Book
Review).
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- North
of South : An African Journey
Shiva Naipaul - Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics $12.95
- "Naipaul's trip to Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia in
the late 1970's is recounted with a novelist's eye for
amusing detail and a serious journalist's ability to
discuss government policies and their social
ramifications."..."Read it and understand
Africa!" (Readers)
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- The
Ukimwi Road - From Kenya to Zimbabwe
Dervla Murphy - Penguin USA $13.95
- A riveting account of renowned traveler Dervla Murphy's
most intrepid journey: 3,000 miles by bicycle through the
heart of sub-saharan Africa.
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- The
Ponds of Kalambayi - An African
Sojourn
Mike Tidwell - Lyons & Burford $16.95
- Tidwell had no clue what awaited him when he headed off
to the remote corners of Zaire, as a fresh-faced Peace
Corps volunteer. His task was help the local people raise
tilapia fish in ponds they would dig themselves. By turns
hilarious and wrenching this is a masterful account of
culture clash, generosity of spirit and grit.
- Gorillas
in the Mist
Dian Fossey - Houghton Mifflin $10.95
- The book that inspired the critically acclaimed movie. An
enthralling testament to one of the longest field studies
of primates, covering fifteen years in the lives of four
gorilla families in Central Africa. Photos.
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- Gorilla:
Struggle for Survival in the Virungas
George B. Schaller, Michael Nichols - Aperture $24.95
- In beautiful yet eerily disturbing color photographs, the
"Indiana Jones" of photography records the
struggle for survival of the gorillas of the Virunga
Mountains, the land they inhabit, and the Rwandan people
whose destiny they share. Gorilla is a beautiful book,
and a resounding testament to the need to save them from
extinction.
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- In
the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall - Houghton Mifflin $14.95
- Goodall's classic account of primate behavior combines a
landmark scientific study with a fascinating adventure
story of a determined young woman's struggle in Africa to
approach chimpanzees in the wild as no one had ever done
before.
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- Into
Africa
Craig Packer - University of Chicago Press $14.95
- "Craig Packer not only celebrates the lions, chimps
and other animals he has studied in East Africa, but also
provides a meticulous and fascinating tour to that field
work, describing in absorbing detail the spirit and
substance of how wildlife research is actually
done." George B. Schaller
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- The
Serengeti Lion - A study of Predator-Prey Relationship
George B. Schaller - University of Chicago Press $30.75
- "Based on years on field observation, it is the most
comprehensive scientific study yet published on the
behavior of free-living lions. The book conveys not only
the fascination of its particular study of lion behavior,
but the drama, wonder and beauty of the intimate
interdependance of all living things" (Saturday
Review)
- The
Famished Road
Ben Okri - Anchor Books $12.95
- "A mesmerizing vision of modern Nigeria seen through
the eyes of a peculiary sentient child...The Famished
Road is the quintessential African novel"
(Philadelphia Enquirer). Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize
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- Songs
of Enchantment
Ben Okri - Anchor Books $12.00
- In this remarkable sequel to The Famished Road, Okri
continues the story of the spirit-child who is a
reluctant but keen observer of his family's turmoil and
the political convulsions of a struggling new Africa.
Through his shimmering consciousness and hallucinatory
visions, the boy finds the strength to survive.
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- Crossing
the River
Caryl Phillips - Vintage Books $12.00
- It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate
foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three
children into slavery, and then follows these accross the
river that seperates continents and centuries.
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- Cry,
the Beloved Country
Alan Paton - Scribner $12.00
- Paton's deeply moving story of Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo
and his son Absalom, set against the backdrop of a land
and people riven by racial inequality and injustice,
remains the most famous and important novel in South
Africa's history.
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- A
Good Man in Africa
William Boyd - Avon Books $9.00
- The first of Boyd's critically acclaimed novels and long
out-of-print winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, this
is the darkly comic tale of an overweight, oversexed
escapee from suburbia and his trials as a representative
of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja.
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- The
Snows of Kilimanjaro (and other stories)
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner $9.00
- These ten stories are classic Hemingway. Written in the
tough, terse prose style that made him one of the
greatest American writers of the 20th century and
reflecting his obsession with such masculine pursuits as
boxing, big-game hunting, and war, they offer powerful
portraits of how men confront the fear of death--and the
emptiness of their lives.
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- Congo
- Michael Crighton - $6.99
- "Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the
Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj,
an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and
brutally in a matter of minutes..." OK, it was a bad
movie, but this is a real page turner, in the best
Crichton style (Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure).
- The
Leopard Son: A True Story
Jacqueline A. Ball, Kit Carlson - Mc Graw Hill $14.95
- Now families can relive the excitement of The Leopard
Son, the Discovery Channel's first feature-length film,
in a magnificent full-color storybook that captures both
the visual splendor and stark reality of this moving
documentary.The Leopard Son brilliantly chronicles a
leopard cub's journey into young adulthood and his
painful coming-of-age in the beautiful but brutal
Serengeti. Full-color photos.
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- The
Lion King (Disney Classic Series)
Don Ferguson, Walt Disney - Mouse Works $7.98
- This bold and beautiful retelling of the film brings to
life all the drama and humor of a wonderful coming-of-age
story. Full-color illustrations throughout.
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