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"An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting view of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity by one of its leading new writers. A lively and diverse continent of fifty-four countries, over two thousand languages, and 1.4 billion people, Africa has long been painted with a broad brush in Western literature, media, and culture, flattening it into a monolith. In Africa is Not a Country, the acclaimed journalist Dipo Faloyin boldly counters...
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SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes...
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes...
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INSPIRING STORY FROM A SMALL TOWN IN MALAWI.
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A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors.
An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
The story of how a teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings...
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CHILDHOOD IN ZIMBABWE.
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An autobiographical account of Alexandra Fuller's childhood in Zimbabwe. The author describes her childhood in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979, relating her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia with an alcoholic mother and frequently absent father.
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SOUTH AFRICAN CONSERVATIONIST ACCEPTS A HERD OF 'ROGUE' ELEPHANTS ON HIS GAME RESERVE IN ZULULAND.
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RICK STEVE'S FAVORITE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES.
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"Stow away with America's favorite travel writer as he relives his favorite European experiences. These are stories only Rick Steves could tell. You'll be at Rick's side when he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangesr of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a near-erotic cheese course in France. Thrill to runners outracing the breath of the bulls in Pamplona, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and crowd-surf...
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EXPLORES HAPPINESS IN COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD.
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore...
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BICYCLING THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST REMOTE PLACES ON EARTH.
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JOHN STEINBECK TRAVELS THE BACK ROADS AND INTERSTATES OF AMERICA IN 1960 WITH HIS DOG, CHARLEY.
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RETRACES GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TRAVELS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES COLONIES.
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"Does George Washington still matter? The ... author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative...
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ADAMS SET OUT TO RETRACE THE EXPLORER'S PATH IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR
What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?
In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace...
What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?
In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace...