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"An acclaimed international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping narrative of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective. Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by Western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In this fascinating...

Escape From Pretoria is the true story of Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), young, white South Africans branded "terrorists", and imprisoned in 1978 for working covert operations for Nelson Mandela's banned ANC. Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, they decide to send the apartheid regime a clear message and escape! With breath-taking ingenuity, meticulous surveillance, and wooden keys crafted for 10 steel...

West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

After carrying a bowl of milk on her head across dunes and the River Niger, and even up a mountain, without spilling a drop despite many distractions, Penda gets a surprise when she arrives at the grasslands to give her father his lunch.

"The African Queen tells the story of Rose Sayer, a respectable missionary who is in Africa with her brother the Reverend Samuel Sayer, and Charles Alnutt the hard-bitten and disreputable skipper of the African Queen. Upon the death of her brother the pair become the unlikeliest of allies as marooned in German Central Africa during the First World War, they fight their ramshacle old launch, laden with explosives, downriver to strike a blow for England"...

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.

Explains some traditions and customs of twenty-six African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.

The vast areas of North and Central Africa include the contrasting countries of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Western Sahara in the north of the continent, to Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, S o Tom and Pr ncipe, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Sudan in Africa s central zone. All the countries examined here, while very different in their physical nature, are blessed with strikingly...

"South Africa is home to some of the most beautiful geography on Earth! From Table Mountain to Cape Town, this nation may be lovely, but it has a tumultuous history. Nonetheless, a road trip around South Africa is on many tourists' bucket lists! In this book, readers get to hop in the car with a young narrator traveling around South Africa. The main content includes topics supportive of social studies curricula, including geography, history, and landmarks,...

"Exploring Continents invites readers to explore the cultures, geography, and other interesting facts of each of the seven continents of the world"-- Provided by publisher.