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Bill Bryson's African Diary Best Price: $5.94 Bill Bryson is the funniest travel writer working today, I believe, and even when he takes on... | The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $8.44 This is by now a revered classic of a young girl's childhood in the Kenyan countryside under... | Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania Best Price: $23.10 The book is very comprehensive. Unfortunately, even though it claims to be a field guide, it is... | The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiography Best Price: $10.00 Very interesting first person account of a Maasai man who becomes western educationed and gives... | The Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Princeton Field Guides) Best Price: $21.93 This book includes all the birds; the birds that also live in California, the amazing colorful... |
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Best Price: $4.72 Ms. Elkins does a good job of writing the story of the Mau-Mau rebellion, which was as she puts... | The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Peter Capstick Library Series) Best Price: $13.72 A fascinating snapshot in a small hiccup in the giant that was the British Empire. ... | The Lives of Beryl Markham Best Price: $6.90 After reading Beryl's memoir, West With the Night, I wanted to find out more about this woman... | No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb Best Price: $4.01 The best thing about the book is that it is believable. With that being said, it's just not... | White Mischief Best Price: $4.95 Interesting and easy read - Fox has done his research well. My late husband's parents were Kenya... |
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire Best Price: $7.00 With the fracas about the American prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, one could read this book for a... | Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt (Blacks in the Diaspora) Best Price: $10.75 | Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean Best Price: $1.38 This is a great book. I don't read very much. It is hard for me to find a book that is really... | African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa Best Price: $3.97 I did volunteer work at Kuki's Ol Ari Nyrio in 11/07 and it was the most amazing experience of... | West With the Night Best Price: $10.00 I read this book because someone suggested my family might have been related to Beryl Markham,... |
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We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life Best Price: $10.50 This book is the culmination of a lengthy relationship between Claire Robertson and a market... | Out of Africa (Vintage Books, V740) Best Price: $4.95 My favorite movie of all time. The book is not as good as the movie. | Kenya Safari Companion (Safari Companions) Best Price: $6.94 | Kenya ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Kenya (Country Abcs) Best Price: $3.93 Kenya ABCs Book | An African Experience: Wildlife Art and Adventure in Kenya Best Price: $211.16 I love this book and will treasure it. I hated coming to the end of it and hope to get a copy... |
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The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi Best Price: $20.83 "The Comforts of Home" is a major work on Africa by any standard. By analyzing... | Mau Mau Warrior Best Price: $1.95 The Mau Mau Freedom Fighters waged a guerrilla war for eight years (1952-1960) against their... | Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya Best Price: $24.16 In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political... | Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950 (Social History of Africa) Best Price: $33.89 Rather than seeing ethnicity as an exogenous construction or as a product of persistent... | Kenya (Oxfam Country Profiles Series) Best Price: $8.69 Kenya, with its fertile soils, diverse climate, and enterprising people, should be a land of... |
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Mau Mau: An African Crucible | British Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern Ireland Best Price: $83.80 Very informative intellectual work. Serious and rich analysis of all cases covered. Highly... | African Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius K. Nyerere Best Price: $25.75 In African politics, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah... | Unhappy Valley : Conflict in Kenya and Africa: Book One: State and class (Eastern African Studies ) Best Price: $19.92 | Paradise Lost: A History of Game Preservation in East Africa Best Price: $14.64 This book does a nice job providing an overview of competition between wildlife and humans in 3... |
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Trouble Showed the Way Best Price: $6.20 This volume is a meticulously executed and written study of women, men, and trade in the Nairobi... | The Man Who Moved the World: The Life & Work of Mohamed Amin (Spectrum Guides) Best Price: $19.95 | The Rough Guide to Kenya Best Price: $3.00 At last a useful map for Kenya - rare these days to find ANY decent map of East Africa - but now... | Enigmatic Proconsul: Sir Philip Mitchell and the Twilight of the Empire Best Price: $72.05 Sir Philip Mitchell has a distinguished career in the British Colonial Service during the latter... | The Freedom of the Spirit: African Indigenous Churches in Kenya (American Academy of Religion Academy Series) Best Price: $30.20 This book examines the history and ecclesiology of two African Independent Churches in Kenya,... |
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Kenya: The Land, the People, and the Nation | Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya Best Price: $4.77 This is about the history of whites (mainly europeans) in Kenya, the govoernment, settler... | Drums of Rebellion: Kenya in Chaos Best Price: $24.95 From the back cover: | A Modern History of Kenya, 1885-1980 | Modern African Spirituality: The Independent Holy Spirit Churches in East Africa Best Price: $6.70 The merging of Christianity with traditional African beliefs and practices is widespread... |
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Kenyan Running: Movement Culture, Geography and Global Change Best Price: $44.00 The writing of this book is very technical yet if you are looking for the training regime and/or... | Mau Mau War In Perspective: Eastern African Studies Best Price: $22.81 | Man Hunt in Kenya | How to be a Kenyan Best Price: $10.86 Mutahi uses satire to address some of the most problematic issues Kenyans faced in the 1990s. ... | Unhappy Valley: Clan, Class & State In Colonial Kenya (Eastern African Studies) |
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Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria : A Comparative Study Best Price: $39.75 A brilliant comparative study of tribal politics in Kenya and Nigeria, and the rest of Africa.... | EAST AFRICA (Armies of the Nineteenth Century) Best Price: $155.84 Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native... | Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History Best Price: $11.98 Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted... | An Oral History of Tribal Warfare: The Meru of Mt. Kenya | The Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen Best Price: $27.74 Baron Bror Blixen was so noted for the admiration he excited in women, that his hunting clients... |
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The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa Best Price: $17.99 Let me first of all say that Rick Ridgeway is one of my favorite adventure writers. This book... | Dis-ease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change Among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya Best Price: $38.97 Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of... | When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences, 13) Best Price: $3.70 This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the... | My Footprints in the Sands of Time: An Autobiography Best Price: $38.50 This autobiography provides a commentary on the history of Kenya as seen through the eyes of... | Kenya Today: Breaking The Yoke of Colonialism in Africa Best Price: $24.95 I was fascinated by the complexity of international politics around african affairs. Especially... |
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Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan Best Price: $12.46 A well balanced, excellent read about a great man in a great time who loved both Africa and the... | When Blood and Tears United a Country: The Bombing of the American Embassy in Kenya | Kenya in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series) Best Price: $29.27 | On God's Mountain/the Story of Mount Kenya Best Price: $19.99 | |