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The Nile. Photographs by Kazuyoshi Nomachi. Introduction by Geoffrey Moorhouse.

By: Nomachi, Kazuyoshi; Photographer.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book - Little, Brown and Company, (1990). First U. S. Edition.:

Seller ID: 50645bd

Square quarto, charcoal boards (hardcover), silver letters, map illus. endpapers, 190 full-color illustrations, 193 pp. Near-Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: More than four thousand miles in length, the Niule is the longest river on Earth. Its power and mystery have held mankind in thrall from the dawn of history, and Kazuyoshi Nomachi not only has photographed the splendors of the Egyptian Niule -- from the mysteries of the pyramids at Aswan and Luxor to the bustle of Cairo and Alexandria -- but has also traveled in the footsteps of explorers, from Hrodotus to Livingston...
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Flammen uber Deutschost: Der Maji-Maji-Aufstand in Deutsch-Ostafrika 1905-1906, die erste gemeinsame Erhebung schwarzafrikanischer Volker gegen weisse Kolonialherrschaft. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte.

By: Nuhn, Walter.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, (1998). First Edition.:

Seller ID: qms354

Octavo, red boards (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, 292 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: In den Jahren 1905/06 ereignete sich im heutigen Tansania eine der grossten Tragodien in der Kolonialgeschichte Schwarzafrikas. Im Maji-Maji-Aufstand erhoben sich erstmals in grosser Zahl verschiedenste Volkerschaften und Stamme gegen die weisse Fremdherrschaft. Beflugelt von einem schutzenden Zaubertrunk zogen die Eingeborenen mit noch nie gekanntem Fanatismus gegen die deutschen Kolonialtruppen in den Kampf und setzten diesen sehr schwer zu. Es dauerte geraume Zeit, ...
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African Voices: An Anthology of Native African Writing.

By: Rutherfoord, Peggy; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [MCMLVIII).:

Seller ID: 4431s

Octavo, burgundy cloth, gilt letters, 208 pp. Former owner stamp; otherwise, Fine in an edgeworn dust jacket. This is the first collection of native writing to be published in this country. Carefully and comprehensively prepared...it presents a varied and creative writing, prose, and poetry, from all parts of Africa -- writing rich in invention and worthy to stand with any national culture in literary quality and scope...' This is us! Africa speaking to Africa and to the world...'
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The Land of Prester John: A Chronicle of Portuguese Exploration.

By: Sanceau, Elaine.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Knopf, 1944. First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 50316fd

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xi + 243 pp. Maps. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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The Land and People of Algeria.

By: Spencer, William.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1969]. Portraits of tne Nations Series.:

Seller ID: 28309

1st edition. Octavo, gray cloth, 156 pp. Photos, map. Fine in a slightly chipped 8dust jacket.
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Abbeokuta; Or, Sunrise within the Tropics: An Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission.

By: Tucker, Miss [Charlotte Maria].

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London: James Nisbet and Co., 1854.:

Seller ID: 800014m

4th edition. Duodecimo, full polished calf, calf label, 278 pp. 2 fold-out maps, 2 lithographic plates in color, 4 woodcut plates. Very Good; covers are lightly scuffed.
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