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The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

In Search of the Red Slave

By Mike Parker Pearson, Karen Godden

An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

By M. K. Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Tridip Suhrud

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By Lessing, Doris

Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion

By Murray, Simon

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

In The Shadow Of A Saint

By Ken Wiwa

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

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

By Noel Botham, Bruce Montague

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

By Tony Fitzjohn

David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy

By Sarah Worden

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

By Dr Andrew C. Ross

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (TPB)

Pirates

By Ross Kemp

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness

By Richard Steyn

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

By Pat Shipman

Voleurs de Reves (Les)

By Bachir Hadjadj

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys

By Alexander Maitland

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By R. W. Johnson

The Herectic: A Study In The Life Of John William Colenso 1814-1883

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg