Kemper, Steve.
Contents: Preparations -- Invitation to Africa -- At the edge of the desert -- First steps -- Stalled in Murzuk -- The palace of demons -- To Aïr -- Plundered -- Days and nights in Tintellust -- Desert port -- Separate ways -- "The celebrated emporium of Negroland" -- An ending -- The kingdom of Bornu -- A mystery solved -- "The horde of the Welad Sliman" -- Razzia -- Captive in Bagirmi -- Letters from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.70423 KEMKipling, Rudyard
Contents: The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling - King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard - With Clive in India / G.A. Henty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prion 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIWheeler, Sara.
Summary: A portrait of explorer, soldier, and hunter Denys Finch Hatton documents the life of the aristocrat known for his love affairs with aviatrix Beryl Markham and author Isak Dinesen, in a biography set against the backdrop of colonial British East Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Fielding, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURFielding, Helen
Summary: Twenty-something Rosie Richardson leaves her hotshot boyfriend the glitzy life of London's celebrity scene for a job running a refugee camp in the African Jungle. After a struggle, Rosie learns that the only way to bring in the food is to call on the celebrity clout of the people she left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FIEGreene, Graham
Summary: An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRELessing, Doris May
Summary: Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLessing, Doris May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 1993
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Summary: With his headstrong daughter Saffron pursuing her education in London at Oxford, Leon Courtney navigates the politics of colonial Kenya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2017Laurens, Stephanie
Summary: Marrying the seemingly delicate Lady Edwina Delbraith, Declan Frobisher discovers that his new bride is unconventional and strong-willed after she accompanies him on a secret mission that leads them to unexpected enemies-- and love. Facing unforeseen perils and unexpected enemies while battling to expose a dastardly scheme involving kidnapped British citizens in West Africa, Declan and Edwina...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUBurroughs, Edgar Rice
Summary: Born to noble parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the laws of the jungle to survive. He quickly matches the beasts around him in strength and agility, yet understands that he is different from them. In combining higher intelligence with his physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BURMaxwell, Robin
Summary: Reimagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical program as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXSmith, Wilbur A.
Summary: On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients, Count Otto von Meerbach, and soon finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach's plan to wipe out the British forces in Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SMIDahl, Roald.
Summary: As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1999
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Summary: Feeling trapped and alienated by her husband, Martha Quest must choose between the security of marriage and the sacrifices of independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESSabatini, Rafael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildside Press 1924
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SABSummary: Suburban veterinarian Danny Trevanion moves his new family from Bristol to South Africa to start a game park; includes all six episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WILMcVeigh, Jennifer.
Summary: South Africa, 1880. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, leading her into the dark heart of the diamond mines. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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Summary: Presents the unfinished novel of what would have been O'Brian's twenty-first Aubrey-Maturin seafaing tale, following Jack Aubrey in his new post, rear admiral of the Blue Squadron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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Summary: "An account of the making of modern international law and one woman's fight for justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 969.7 SANSummary: Report on British Colonial Africa railway plans (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930