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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
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- 1995
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SGD 24.61
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New York: Penguin, 1995. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 750 pages. A critically acclaimed study documents the outbreaks of newly discovered diseases around the globe, such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola, and explores the social and environmental deterioration… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area: A Kibuyu Guidebook
by Jeannette Hanby; David Bygott
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- 1996
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SGD 23.24
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Karatu, Tanzania: Kibuyu Partners, 1996. Staple-Bound Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Securely bound by two clean staples. Covers clean with rubbing at spine. Not from a library. 84 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and maps.
This guidebook describes the whole of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Separate chapters give general information on the NCA, its geology and history, all its major… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Congo Cables : The Cold War in Africa--From Eisenhower to Kennedy
by Madeleine G. Kalb
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- May 1982
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- Hardcover
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- 9780025606203
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SGD 159.71
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New York: Macmillan, May 1982. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. First printing review copy laid-in with publisher's press release. Appears unmarked. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxx + 466 pages.
Examines how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations manipulated the 1960-1963 Congo crises and… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 159.71
Between Democracy and Terror : The Sierra Leone Civil War
by Ibrahim Abdullah
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- As New
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- 2004
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9782869781238
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SGD 137.09
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Dakar: Codesria, 2004. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not damaged. x + 263 pages Item Price
SGD 137.09
Black Man's Grave: Letters from Sierra Leone
by Gary Stewart
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- As New
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- First Edition
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- 2007
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- Trade Paperbac
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- 9780979080821
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Berkeley Springs, West Virg: Cold Run Books. Trade Paperbac. 2007. First Edition. As New. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia: Cold Run Books, February 2007. Trade Paper back. First Edition (stated). As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a l ibrary. No remainder mark. 223 pages: ill., map. An account of the tragic revolution in Sierra Leone from 1991… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fighting for the Rain Forest : War, Youth & Resouirces in Sierra Leone (Afr ican Issues)
by Paul Richards
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1996
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- Trade Paperbac
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- 9780435074067
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SGD 32.83
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire: The International African In. Trade Paperbac. 1996. First Edition. Very Good+. The International African Institute, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Edition ( full number line). Very Good+. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise Fine. Text unmarked. Very slight reading/shelf wear. Not from a library. xx x + 182 pages. Examines the civil war in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Background to Sierra Leone
by Michael Manifold
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- 1980
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SGD 30.09
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Freetown, Sierra Leone: Office of the President, State House, 1980. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Reading wear to corners and edges. Not from a library. 240 pages. Richly illustrated with maps and photographs. Item Price
SGD 30.09
Almamy Suluku of Sierra Leone, c.1820-1906: Dynamics of Political Leadership in Pre-colonial Sierra Leone
by C. Magbaily Fyle
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- 1979
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9780237504588
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SGD 198.78
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London: Evans Brothers, 1979. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Corners sharp. Dust stains to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. iv + 60 pages. illus., maps, index. Item Price
SGD 198.78
African Masks
by Robert Bleakley
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- 1978
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- Paperback
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- 9780312009700
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SGD 27.35
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New York: St. Martins Press, 1978. Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean but lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 4to. 88 pages with 40 color plates. Item Price
SGD 27.35
Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons (Virago Trave lers)
by Mary Kingsley; Elizabeth Claridge (intro)
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- Used - Very Good
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- Fifth Edition
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- 1982
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9780860682660
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London: Virago Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Fifth Edition. Very Good. Pages tanned but unmarked. Spine creased and lightly curved. Reading wear to covers. Corners sharp. Not from a library. xxvi + 741 pages. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1897. With new introduction.
Mary Kingsley's story is remarkable. In the 1890s, Kingsley decides she should travel in "the tropics" and… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 27.35
The African Middle Ages, 1400-1800
by Roland Oliver
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- April 1981
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9780521298940
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SGD 47.91
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, April 1981. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. viii + 216 pages.
The African Middle Ages covers the period of African history from 1400 to 1800. During this period Africa was influenced by external forces as the Islamic states of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Second Edition, Studies in Comparative World History)
by John Kelly Thornton
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- Second Edition
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- 1998
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- Trade Paperbac
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- 9780521627245
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Second Edition. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light corner wear. Remainder mark. Not from a library. xxxvi + 340 pages. maps.
This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Image of Africa; British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850
by Philip D. Curtin
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- 1965
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- Hardcover
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London: Macmillan & Co, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good book / no jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight. Covers clean with fraying to hinges and corners. Not from a library. xvii + 526 pages
In this encyclopedic work of intellectual history, Philip D. Curtain sought to discover the British image of Africa for the years 1780-1850. Item Price
SGD 32.83
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Sierra Leone in Maps
by J. I. Clarke; S. J. A. Nelson; K. Swindell
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- Used - Good
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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London: University of London Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Occasional underlining. Soiling. Delaminating. Not from a library. 119 pages. Item Price
SGD 27.35
History and Socio-Economic Development in Sierra Leone : a Reader
by C. Magbaily Fyle
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- 1988
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SGD 54.77
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Freetown, Sierra Leone: SLADEA, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. Tanned. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean, but rubbed. Not from a library. 256 pages. Item Price
SGD 54.77
Africa Since 1800, New Edition (4th Edition)
by Roland Oliver; Anthony Atmore
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 4th Edition
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- 1994
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9780521429702
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SGD 13.64
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. New Edition/4th Edition. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. sSuff to front spine edge. Slight dog-ear to rear cover. Not from a library. xii + 308 pages.
The book falls into three parts. The first describes the precolonial history of Africa, while the middle section deals thematically with partition and colonial… Read more about this item Item Price
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Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone : Photographic Portraits by Vera Viditz-Ward, November 21, 1990 - September 2, 1991, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
by Vera Viditz-Ward
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- 1990
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- Staple-Bound Pamphlet
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Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, November 1990. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 12 pages. Item Price
SGD 54.77
Sierra Leone Studies : The Journal of the Sierra Leone Society : New Series No.3, December 1954
by J. D. Hargreaves (ed); Robert de Zouch Hall; E. J. Wright; B. M. Jusu; Marguerite Jellicoe;
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- December 1954
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Freetown, Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Society, December 1954. Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean with discoloration at staples. In remarkably good condition for a seventy year-old volume from West Africa. Not from a library. 192 pages.
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A Museum for Sierra Leone by Robert de Zouch Hall;
Remarks on the Early Monetary Position in Sierra Leone with a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Agony in Sierra Leone
by C. B. Squire
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- First Edition
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- 1996
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- Paperback
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Freetown: Ro-Marong Industries, 1996. Paperback. First Edition. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 105 pages. Item Price
SGD 27.35
The Emigration of Liberated Africans to British Guiana, 1841 - 1852 (History Gazette, Number 31, April 1991)
by Anand James
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- 1991
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- Staple-Bound Pamphlet
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Turkeyen, Guyana: University of Guyana History Society, April 1991. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 16 pages. Item Price
SGD 27.35