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Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

David Livingstone

By M. Buxton

Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference

By J. Procter, B. Benwell

Don't Bother to Unpack: Sudan 1959-1964

By Lowe, Dorothy Isabel

Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions

By Asaad Alsaleh, Peter Sluglett

Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends

By Richard Steyn

Plain Tales from Robben Island

By Jan K. Coetzee

South Africa Weird and Wonderful

By Rob Marsh

Shah Abbas: The King Who Refashioned Iran

By Sholeh Quinn

Shaka Zulu

By E.A. Ritter

This Way More Adventure: A Journey of Self-Education in Africa

By Janet Stuart

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

By Stephen Kinzer

A Woman of Firsts: The true story of the midwife who built a hospital and changed the world - A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

By Ismail, Edna Adan, Holden, Wendy

Rommel: Battles and Campaigns

By Macksey, Kenneth

Monarchs of the Nile

By Aidan Dodson

Discovery of the Source of the Nile

By John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant

To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa

By Pat Shipman

Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness

By Richard Steyn

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Pirates

By Ross Kemp

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (TPB)

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

By Dr Andrew C. Ross

David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy

By Sarah Worden

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa.

By Tony Fitzjohn

Catch That Tiger: Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II

By Noel Botham, Bruce Montague

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice