Matka Afrikkaan, jota ei enää ole Kiehtova tarina tanskalaisen Karen Blixenin vuosista Keniassa 1914-1931. Afrikka kuljetti Karenia vuoroin paratiisiin ja vuoroin helvetin porteille. Hän sai kokea niin avioeron, talousvaikeuksia ja sairauksia kuin m…
The climactic death-throes of Soviet Communism during the 1980s included a last-gasp attempt at strategic franchise expansion in Southern Africa. Channeled through Castro's Cuba, oil-rich Angolan armed forces (FAPLA) received billions of dollars of…
Jenny har troll i huvudet. Det är så hennes mamma förklarar varför Jenny har så svårt att somna på kvällarna. Jenny har helt enkelt alldeles för livlig fantasi, som gärna föreställer sig hemskheter. Saker som aldrig har hänt. En mördare har aldrig l…
Many of the modern passes in South Africa still follow ancient animal migration routes; others are engineering masterpieces that challenge gravity. All take travelers deep into rugged and wild terrain where nature reigns supreme. Passes & Poorts Sou…
”Slumpens barngjorde starkt intryck på mig, /…/ En grundlig och känslosam historia om hur Sverige och Gambia hör ihop.” Kakan Hermansson"En ödmjuk och välkomponerad bok." Aftonbladet"Det är lärorik och fascinerande läsning. Med st…
Yaa Gyasi skildrar med sin imponerande debutroman slavhandelns konsekvenser under flera generationer, från 1700-talet ända fram till idag. Frågan som ställs är om människans jakt på identitet och hemfärd också kan bli hennes väg till försoning. Vänd…
Miss Marple, en av världens mest skarptänkta detektiver, får ett vykort från sin nyligen avlidna vän Jason Rafiel. En gång hjälpte han henne att lösa ett mordfall, men den här gången är det ett vad han vill göra med henne från bortom graven: om hon…
Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in ‘The Beasts of Tarzan’ (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England, Tarzan and Jane and their litt…
This new larger edition is based on the recently updated fourth edition of the standard-format Sasol Birds of Southern Africa. The region s best-selling, most comprehensively illustrated and trusted field guide, it offers: Rewritten species accounts…
Nita är upp och ner. Hon hänger i knävecken och hennes långa, flätade hår tar i backen. Hon känner att hon inte riktigt passar in. Då går Navi förbi. Navi är snäll. Han tar med Nita till sin bästa utkiksplats. Därifrån kan de se alla de andra barnen…
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, race still continues to play a role in South African society. Now, however, it is a black majority government that is demanding and maintaining race thinking in an effort to redress the discrimination of the…
In Recovering democracy in South Africa, which brings together the best of his recent writings and essays, he offers a fresh look at a wide range of contentious issues that currently preoccupy South Africans, from the threat to constitutionalism to…
As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers de…
Afrika Korps is an illustrated record of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel and his desert troops that fought in North Africa against British and Commonwealth forces between 1941 and 1943. Using previously rare and unpublished photographs, many of which hav…
För ett par decennier sedan var bilden av Afrika präglad av krig, svältkatastrofer och larmrapporter om aids. I dag är bilden av kontinenten en annan. Analytiker talar om snabb ekonomisk tillväxt och större politisk stabilitet. Afrika har blivit en…
Amidst a catastrophic civil war that began in 1983 and ended in 2005, many Dinka people in Sudan repudiated their inherited religious beliefs and embraced a vibrant Anglican faith. Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan chronicles the emergence…
General Gordon’s death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 – and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi – was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is toda…
Born of the Desert is a classic account of the early years of the SAS. The Special Air Service was formed in 1941 and quickly earned a reputation for stealth, daring and audacity in the Western Desert Campaign. This elite force utilised the endless…
This is the book that Alex Boraine never wanted to write. As a native South African and a witness to the worst years of apartheid, he has known many of the leaders of the African National Congress in exile. He shared the jubilation of millions of So…
När det 30-åriga berättarjaget tar upp kontakten med en gammal skolkamrat vid namn Orvar Smith, förändras allt. Ögonforskaren Orvar, som alltid varit singel, har plötsligt gått och gift sig med en yngre, helt makalöst vacker kvinna. Det är något all…
Svarta mambor och mystiska dödshot. Inom loppet av en vecka drabbas tre framstående afrikanska ledamöter i IOK, Internationella Olympiska Kommittén, av fruktansvärda öden. Tragiska olyckshändelser och självmord, är de officiella förklaringarna. Revi…
What sound most typifies South Africa s great outdoors? Some say it s the chilling roar of a lion in the early evening in the bush. Others claim it s the haunting call of a fish eagle that soars above the country s many rivers and dams. And yet the…
Året är 1988 och i FN:s organisation råder totalt kaos. I Sudan står man inför en stundande hungerkatastrof, samtidigt som en svensk biståndsarbetare kidnappas från ett flyktingläger. Om det inte vore för det kommande valet av chef till FN:s UNHO ha…
The nineteenth century saw the British army engaged in a series of conflicts around the globe. In almost every continent the redcoats of British soldiers seemed to be in perpetual action against enemies of the Crown. The Anglo-Zulu War, fought in so…
Tunisian womens literary production in French, published or set between the years 1987 and 2011 from Tunisias second president Zine El Abidine Ben Alis rise to power to the eve of the Tunisian Revolution reveals the role of women, their political en…
At a time when newspapers are full of the woes of the South African education system and stories of teachers who let the children in their classes down, this book shows that this is not the whole picture; it is a celebration of heroic teachers who h…
Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorkes Drift to other fiercely fought battles. He covers little recorded engagements and battles suc…
New memoirs by combatants in the Second World War are sadly rare today due to the passage of time. Tanks and Thoroughbreds will be warmly welcomed as the author, now into his 90s, fought through with The Bays from Alamein to Tunis and then on up Ita…
Äntligen är det dags för badsemester i Egypten! Familjen ska bo på ett fint hotell, som dessutom har ett supercoolt vattenland och Max kan knappt bärga sig. Men tyvärr har mamma bestämt att de ska åka på kryssning på Nilen först. Hur kul kan det ege…
The East African country of Mozambique has produced a remarkable body of poetry and much of it is little known outside the Portuguese-speaking world. In many ways these poems are the reflections of the unique history of the country where different c…
Following the events of the first novel, Tarzan is grieving his beloved Jane, who is about to marry someone else. But he soon finds that there is more love to be had as he sets off to visit France, where he, besides causing some serious problems wit…
A photographic masterpiece, this beautiful book is a fitting tribute to the baobab - an extraordinary and majestic tree found principally in Madagascar, and peripherally in Africa and Australia. The first section offers a short introduction to the c…
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court. He ha…
KOMMER SKÖNHETEN INIFRÅN? Mma Ramotswe och Mma Makutsi upptäcker att någon osnygg figur sprider illasinnade rykten om en nyöppnad skönhetssalong för att driva verksamheten mot ruinens brant.Men om tilltaget mot salongen är fult, är kärleken mellan d…
Kun nuori Harry-poika saa mahdollisuuden lähteä isänsä mukaan metsästyssafarille, hän on innoissaan. Harry ei kuitenkaan osaa aavistaa, että savanneilla liikkuu myös muita taitavia metsästäjiä – eikä kulu aikaakaan, kun ryhmä huomaa tulleensa…
In 1960, apartheid's planners created the `Indian' township of Chatsworth, evicting people from established neighbourhoods around Durban and forcibly settling them into the grid of a modern racial ghetto. Making home within this architecture of excl…
Between 1973 and 1989, various Western powers and Libya were entangled in a seemingly never-ending exchange of blows. Supposedly launched in retaliation for one action or the other, this confrontation resulted in a number of high-profile, even thoug…
AFRIKAHär ger 23 väl insatta afrikaner sin syn på förhållanden och aktuella utmaningar i Afrika, t ex klimat, demokrati, stadstillväxt, jordbruk och livsmedel, korruption, väpnade konflikter och utbildning liksom Kina i Afrika.Bamanga Tukur, Nigeria…
The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period…
'Full of new material, fresh insights and perceptive analysis.' Ian Knight The defence of Kimberley – and the mission to relieve it – was one of the great dramatic sagas of the South African War. The actual relief, following…
"Tuoreen sateen tuoksu kutitti Khadijan nenää. Hän nosti mekon ja juoksenteli leirissä paljain jaloin antaen varpaiden upota märkään ruskeaan mutaan, joka viilensi jalkoja. Taivas jylisi, salamat välähtelivät ja sade rummutti maata. Khadija nautti,…
In 1939 Dick Gorle was already a professional soldier but stationed in India. After the Dunkirk disaster he was recalled and initially involved in training recruits at Plymouth before going north to form the Highland Division Gunners.We hear of the…
Fem ungdomar som av olika anledningar tvingats fly till Sverige. Du får läsa om varför de flytt, om den många gånger brutala kontakten med människosmugglare, om hur det är att trängas ihop i natten i en allt för liten gummibåt över Medelhavet och om…
This book tells briefly about the pioneer missionaries effort in the previous Welega province in Western-Ethiopia, and then about the untiring Ethiopian pastor and bible translator, Onesimus Nezib (1856- 1931). However the author’s main intent…
The story of the mighty imperial British army’s defeat at Iswandlwana in 1879 has been much written about, but never with the detail and insight revealed by Dr Adrian Greaves’ research. In reconstructing the dramatic and fateful events,…
Despatches in this volume include the despatch fo the campaign from Alamein to Tunis, by Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces North Africa; despatch on operation in the Western Desert December 1940 t…
Filled with beautiful reproductions of some 85 maps, this is the first survey of the fascinating story of maps and mapmaking in the subcontinent. Beginning with the Portuguese voyages of exploration in the late 15th century, it explores the attempts…
Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host attacked the 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana, a distinctive…
In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its Empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control…
Bibelen er full av historier om blodige slag, forferdelige katastrofer, helters død og forlengst glemte folk. Men er dette fantasifortellinger, eller bygger dramaene på virkelige hendelser? Ta for eksempel kong Arthur – er han en sagnfigur ell…
