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The Lost Heart of Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and...
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Shadow of the Silk Road
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and...
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A History of West Central Africa to 1850
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ...
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Shambhala
HardcoverOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In "Shambhala" Roerich has recorded the way of his journey through Central Asia and Tibet in the terms of spirit. It is a record of legends, of p...
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The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the De...
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million peo...
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The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism — from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of a...
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The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into...
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia Over the yea...
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Ships In The Desert
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in ...
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the dev...
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The Places In Between
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times BestsellerThis acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous…a...
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil ...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. ...
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A Modern History of the Somali: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /This latest edition of A Modern History of the Somali brings I. M. Lewis's definitive history up to date and shows the amazing continuity of Soma...
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The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at t...
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Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA'S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kili...
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To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a h...
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Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year, International (2017) Winner, IACP Award for Best Cookbook of the Year in Culinary Travel (201...
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $41.00Original price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...
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Turkmenistan Travel Guide 2023: A Land Of Hospitality: A Journey Through Turkmenistan Landscape
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Are you ready to embark on an extraordinary adventure to the heart of Central Asia? Look no further than the "TURKMENISTAN Travel Guide 2023." This...
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The Korean Cookbook
HardcoverOriginal price $54.95Original price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /'Stunning and comprehensive.' - Vogue 'Nothing short of miraculous. A paradigm-shifting achievement comparable to Larousse Gastronomique.' - Min Ji...
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Only in Africa: A Travelogue Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.63 - Original price $19.63Original price $19.63$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An alarming flight on a plane that suffers engine failure, a perilous climb up a snow-capped volcano, a close encounter with a lion and a fearsome ...
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sol...
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