1,657円 Retired university professor Renate Schulz is looking for something to do with her life, some way to give back. She decides to rejoin the Peace Corps forty-six years after she first served.Life in Alien Territory: Memories of Peace Corps Service in Mali chronicles her eleven months in Mali, West ...

2,488円 Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journali...

1,459円 Revolution is a collection of eleven short stories that act as a vital bridge between the novels Exile and Liberty. But it is also so much more than that. Ejersbo had a remarkable and unaffected talent for getting inside the heads of his characters: Moses, a worker in a Tanzanite mine who lives i...

1,856円 The novel behind the new Danish TV series starring The Killing's Sofie Gråbøl, available on All 4 / Walter Presents Two young men from very different backgrounds. Christian is the son of Danish ex-pats; Marcus works as a house boy for a Swedish family, hoping they will eventually take him back to...

1,780円 Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a j...

1,100円 Molte caratteristiche rendono speciale la Tanzania sia dal punto di vista naturalistico sia da quelli antropologico e storico. Flora e fauna sono estremamente varie grazie alla conformazione del territorio: qui si trovano i grandi laghi africani, ma anche la montagna più alta del continente (il K...

1,300円 L'Etiopia è uno tra i paesi più affascinanti del continente africano. Le ragioni di questo interesse sono molteplici: geografici che, per la straordinaria gamma di ambienti climatici che caratterizzano il suo territorio; culturali, per la sua storia che affonda le radici ai primordi dell'umanità;...

1,856円 In the bestselling Olive series by writer and actress Carol Drinkwater, author of THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER 'She writes so well you can almost smell the sun-baked countryside' BELLA 'Her writing captures the true spirit of the people and places she visits' THE TIMES 'A thrilling tale tracing the journ...

1,117円 The biography of one of Britain’s greatest explorers by a brilliant young writer. The achievements of James Bruce are the stuff of legends. In a time when Africa was an unexplored blank on the map, he discovered the source of the Blue Nile, lived with the Emperor of Abyssinia at court in Gondar, ...

1,723円 The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and camel trains trudging through sand dunes that roll like the waves on a se...

662円 After winning a prestigious fellowship from the Youth Exploration Society, Gannon and Wyatt set off on a journey to Egypt. There they study with world-renowned archeologist Dr. Mohammed Aziz, joining him on a quest to find the long lost tomb of the Pharaoh Cleopatra, rumored to hold priceless tre...

1,989円 James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan, in 2007. The newest Médicins Sans Frontières' doctor in the field, he arrived with only his training, full of desire to understand this most desperate part of the world. He returned home six months later profoundly affected by ...