Between 1980 and 1986 the author accompanied her husband, a newspaper correspondent, on his assignment to Kenya. There she happened to get to know very well two English-speaking Maasai schoolboys, Joseph and Noah, who introduced her to their village in the Great Rift Valley. There she met their parents and siblings, their teacher, William ole Sekento, who acted as her interpreter, and other leading figures in the village. During her stay, an arsonist burned down a Maasai village, a man was eaten by a lion, there was an involved trial, and the Maasai's grazing land shrank steadily as other tribes encroached on their territory. She describes the changing times and economic decline of a proud people.

Maasai Days

Travel

Bentsen, Cheryl.

Africa

HarperCollins, Publishers-

Nomads Of Niger

Beckwith, Carol

Harvill Press

Field guide to the Narional Parks of East Africa with 24 color and 5 black and white plates by Norman Ariott and Rena Fennessy

National Parks of East Africa (Collins Field Guides)

Science & Math

Williams, J.G.

Biological Sciences

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Explains everything you are likely to see while on safari in East Africa. Complementary to the field guides, this book goes beyond identification to reveal how the mammals, birds, fish and reptiles of the area have evolved and why they behave as they do. Across the Savannah Plains of the Serengeti, through the forests of Kilimanjaro, into flamingo covered Lake Nakuru and further along the safari trail, it shows how different species successfully co-exist within each habitat and it looks at how animals have adapted their behaviour in order to survive.

On Safari in East Africa

Neal, Ernest

Evolution

One of the Collins Safari Guides series, this handy pocket volume covers 360 speciesall the common wild birds found in East Africa and includes hints on watching and photographing the birds. Authors Hosking and Withers are wildlife experts who have been leading safaris in East Africa for the past 20 years. Illustrated with more than 350 color photographs.

Common Birds of East Africa (Collins Safari Guides)

Hosking, David

Withers, Martin B.

This is an eloquent, impassioned account of one man's adventures across Africa and into the depths of his soul on a quest to recover the magic of belief in himself, misplaced along life's journey. With spare, exquisite prose, the book is a map of rebirth for a creative man in his mid-forties. 1 map.

The frozen leopard: hunting my dark heart in Africa

Aaron Latham

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

the hardcover stated Harper First U.S. Edition from 1992. Other than a front cardholder flyleaf (ex libris), both the mylar-covered DJ and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, etc. and the pages and binding are tight as a drum

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

Biographies & Memoirs

LESSING, DORIS

Historical

Harpercollins

The author has lived in Kenya since 1960. He first went not to the white highlands farmed by Europeans but to the vast, desolate Northern Province that borders Somalia, Abyssinia, the Sudan and Uganda. Lured by the space, silence and solitude, Thesiger made some very long journeys on foot, relishing the opportunity to observe teeming wild life, and unconcerned by the risk of raids from across the frontier which discouraged most people from travelling there. Later he spent many months among the Boran, the Turkana and the Samburu, and travelled with donkeys among the Masai on the other side of the border with Tanganikya. For the last 18 years he has lived in Maralal, a small town north of Nairobi, headquarters of the Samburu district. He has remained there principally as a result of the mutual affection and respect between him and Leboyare who is as dear to him as a son, Wilfred Thesiger, now aged 84, is the author of "Arabian Sands" and "The Marsh Arabs" as well as "Desert, Marsh and Mountain" and "Visions of a Nomad".

My Kenya Days

Thesiger, Wilfred

Collins Doue

An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa's past. Meshing together Africa's colonial history and the personalities of that time with his own memories of the turbulent twentieth century and its characters, Stephen Taylor will travel from Lake Victoria to the Cape of Good Hope -- from the place that represents the peak of colonial exploration in Africa to the first settling place of his own family. His description and re-evaluation of the colonial period shows it in all its drama, glamour and disreputableness -- a wilder version of the Raj. Through this present-day journey, Taylor will trace the legacy of Africa's history and, in particular, of the place in it of the Whites. The journey will be a quest for understanding: of the colonial impulse, of his own curious ambivalence towards the great continent in which he grew up, and of the southern African countries' -- in particular South Africa's -- future. It will be a wonderfully evocative, lyrical description of some of the most dramatic lands in the world -- thoughtful, historical, philosophical travel writing of the best kind.

Livingstone's Tribe

Taylor, Stephen

South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara

Marozzi, Justin

Harper Uk

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