Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
10 best books like Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa (Ann Jones): The White Nile, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, The Ukimwi Road, Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, Travels in West Africa, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River, Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
| ISBN | 0060956399 |
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679737324 |
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0006548024 |
The Ukimwi Road is the riveting account of renowned traveler Dervla Murphy's most intrepid journey yet - 3,000 miles by bicycle through the heart of sub-Saharan Africa, a region that has recently drawn the world's attention as an epicenter of the AIDS epidemic (ukimwi is Swahili for AIDS). Along her...
| Author | William Powers |
| ISBN | 1582346445 |
"A haunting account of one man's determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country."--Booklist
When William Powers went to Liberia as a fresh-faced aid worker in 1999, he was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." It wasn't long before Powers...
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
| Author | Sarah Erdman |
| ISBN | 0312423128 |
The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn't yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold of the village as a Peace Corps volunteer, she...
| Author | Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
| ISBN | 0792266382 |
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
| Author | Dan Morrison |
| ISBN | 0670021989 |
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea
With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda,...
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
| Author | Fadumo Korn |
| ISBN | 1558615318 |
This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the...
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0688115853 |
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert,...
| Author | Pat Shipman |
| ISBN | 0060505575 |
In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by compassion and an immediate, overpowering empathy...
| Author | Mark Rotella |
| ISBN | 0865476969 |
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy
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a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria...
| Author | George Packer |
| ISBN | 0374527806 |
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped...
| Author | Robert D. Kaplan |
| ISBN | 1400034523 |
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for...
Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth--the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the southern limit of Islam’s reach in West and Central Africa,...
| Author | Robert Calderisi |
| ISBN | 0300120176 |
After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa's misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the...
| Author | Basil Davidson |
| ISBN | 0812922107 |
This book is subtitled "Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State", but I assume that this was added by a timid publisher, afraid that the more accurate subtitle "Africa and the Curse of Imperialism" would make the book less salable. It would nonetheless have better expressed Davidson's argument, for...
| Author | William Langewiesche |
| ISBN | 0679750061 |
It is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said thatmigratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. William Langewiesche came to the Sahara to see it as its inhabitants do, riding its public transport, braving...
Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads with a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan
| Author | Max Alexander |
| ISBN | 1401324177 |
The hilarious story of two brothers, a truckload of batteries, and a brilliant plan to bring light--and new business opportunities--to Ghana
At age 47, Whit Alexander, the American co-founder of the Cranium board game, decided to start a new business selling affordable goods and services...
Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China, & Vietnam
| Author | Erika Warmbrunn |
| ISBN | 0898866847 |
A thoroughly enjoyable travel book from the point of view of a woman who is not really soul-seeking, not healing from a tragic life event, not exoticizing the people she encounters or the places she goes.
Erika Warmbrunn is a young woman in the early 1990s who has a lot of world travel under her...
| Author | Thomas Keneally |
| ISBN | 0446391719 |
From the author of Schindler's Ark, is this book about the Eritrean war of independence. The narrator, a journalist going through personal issues of rejection, finds himself at the forefront of a news story on the Eritrean war.
This is a sparsely documented period of recent history - and the...
Sufferings in Africa: The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara
| Author | James Riley |
| ISBN | 1602390428 |
Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress, as one of the books that most influenced his life, few true tales of adventure and survival are as astonishing as this one. Shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in August of 1815, James Riley and his crew had no idea of...
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
| Author | Ernesto Che Guevara |
| ISBN | 0802138349 |
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, a man whose heroic adventures were essential to the success of the Cuban Revolution and whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid worldwide conjecture, Guevara left Cuba, where he was...
