Africa Travel

The prolific drummer for the rock band Rush travels through African villages, both large and small, and relates his story through journal entries and tales of adventure, while simultaneously addressing issues such as differences in culture, psychology, and labels. Literary and artistic sidekicks such as Aristotle, Dante, and Van Gogh join Peart and his cycling companions, reminding the listener that this is not just another travel book - it is a story of both external and introspective discovery and adventure.

Looking for a lightly steamed, slow-burn, feel-good, comfort romance? Well, grab your coffee (or tea) and taste "Connect". Happy Chinese New Year! Tianna is an artist not a psychic. So when she meets a handsome man online and they seem to have a lot in common, she risks it all. Flying from the US to China to meet the man of her dreams turns into a nightmare when she discovers that she has been catfished. What the... Deep in a foreign country and feeling betrayed, Tianna is ready to turn right back around. Can Li regain her trust? Could this new connection be the real thing, or is it just an...

He is the ancient frost. She is the living fire. And this Christmas, the legend of Saint Nick gets a primal, deadly rewrite. Dr. Nia Abara has spent her career deconstructing the myths of the Winter Solstice. She knows the stories of the Wild Hunt and the Yule beasts are born from ancient fears. But when a mysterious research grant lands her on a private jet that crashes into the frozen Arctic wastes, Nia discovers that the monsters aren't metaphors. They are real, they are hungry, and she is on the menu. Her savior is a nightmare wrapped in muscle and fur. Niklas Vinter is no jolly old elf...

We Will Be Free chronicles the challenges faced by the Bell family as they extract themselves from the “real” world and set off to explore Africa and circumnavigate the South American continent in a Land Rover. Written with passion and from the heart, We Will Be Free is more than just another travel book, it is a modern manifesto, a declaration of independence and self sufficiency. “From the title to the very last page of the book, I was intrigued and entertained! It is full of unabashedly honest and hilarious metaphors describing life on the road and what it's like to be a part of ...

He has lived the same deadly day for ten years. She is the only variable he didn’t predict. New York City, 2025. Investigative journalist Zadie Washington is hunting for corruption in the history of the Shaw family empire. But when she touches a mysterious prototype in a museum exhibit, the world explodes into white light. New York City, 1895. Zadie wakes up on the floor of a Gilded Age study, staring down the barrel of a pistol held by Donovan Shaw. But Donovan isn’t just a ruthless railroad tycoon; he is a prisoner. For a decade, he has been trapped in a time loop, reliving October ...

Join Jigi Brown as he embarks on an epic journey looking for love, sex, and adventure across East Africa.As a graduate student backpacking across Western Europe, Jigi Brown discovered the tremendous erotic diversity that thrives in cultures around the world. A year later, Brown takes off for East Africa: traveling the length and breadth of the region for work and pleasure -- from the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro to the vast grasslands of the Mara; the warm waters of Lake Victoria to the cold climes of the Kenyan highlands. Brown finds passionate lovers and wonderful colleagues who help him ...

Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa has long been regarded as a classic of African travel literature. In fulfilling his mission to find the Niger River and in documenting its potential as an inland waterway for trade, Park was significant in opening Africa to European economic interests. His modest, low-key heroism made it possible for the British public to imagine themselves as a welcomed force in Africa. As a tale of adventure and survival, it has inspired the imaginations of audiences since its first publication in 1799 and writers from Wordsworth and Melville to Conrad.

She fell through time to save history. He'll burn it all down to keep her. Amari Bell is a woman of science and order. As a museum conservator in 2025, her life is a quiet collection of artifacts and facts. But when a cursed ring from a notorious 1920s gangster's collection sends her hurtling through time, her meticulously ordered world is annihilated. She lands in the grimy, rain-slicked reality of 1925 Chicago, at the feet of the ring's original owner: Dante Rinaldi. The ruthless, possessive, and dangerously handsome mob boss known as 'The Butcher' doesn't see a lost historian. He sees a ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to chuck it all in and do something completely different? One night over a few too many beers, Sam Manicom decided to ride a motorcycle the length of Africa. A mad idea? Or a world of opportunity opening up? There was just one obstacle; Sam didn’t know how to ride a motorcycle, and if he was going to make it through the Sahara before the months of intense summer heat hit, he had just 3 months to learn and get across Europe to Egypt. Into Africa is a story that takes you exploring an incredible continent.

A sequel to The Overlanders: An African Journey Had his quest ended in South Africa . . . or had it only begun? “The path to virtue is a rising slope, each step more difficult than the one before.” A quest for courage on an African odyssey becomes a quest for honor on the homeward journey. A quest for honor . . . and love. Get your copy today and join the adventure! (Spoiler Alert! You may wish to purchase and read the first book in its entirety before clicking on the "Look Inside the Book" feature for this sequel.)

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of...

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet in the 1970s and 1980s, about 1,000 of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed for their valuable ivory tusks. When biologists Mark and Delia Owens, residing in Africa to study lions, found themselves in the middle of a poaching fray, they took the only side they morally could: that of the elephants.

Sue Tidwell lived in awe of Africa’s extraordinary wildlife. After years spent appreciating the animals in her imagination, the tenderhearted American hated the idea of joining her husband on a big game hunting safari. And getting attacked by blood-sucking tsetse flies the moment she stepped off the plane gave no hint of the mind-blowing change of perspective in her future. With her initial animosity turning into curiosity as they breathlessly tracked dangerous beasts, Sue formed a surprising bond with their young female government-assigned game scout.

Livingstone's first book revolutionized the way European readers saw Africa and made him a hero in England. He returned again to the Zambesi with his brother Charles and others, this time with more equipment and funds. Again he faced hippopotami, crocodiles, impossible terrain, and disease, but his greatest enemies on this trip prove to be human. The British eventually lost faith in the expedition, but Livingstone proved in the end to have had tremendous foresight.

What if that dream vacation—the one you keep envisioning in your sleep, with colors so vivid you could almost taste, smell, feel them—could become your reality... and all you had to do was pack your bags and go?

So, who is the jeep-jockey in the khaki uniform and the sweat-stained hat, this person you entrust your life to when you venture into the African wilderness? =Lloyd reveals some of the truths and tricks that ensure a dazzling safari experience, while also underscoring the fervour, foibles and frailties of safari guides. His stories interrogate the actions of the people he has worked with, laugh at some fondly held safari legends told as inviolate truths, and question many of the casual life assumptions of the safari guests in his care.

Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the river for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations - Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of Sudan, and Egypt - to the Mediterranean coast.

The two-and-a-half-year journey spanned the mountains and deserts of former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan on the fearful brink of foreign withdrawal, and remote corners of the Congolese jungle. From hiking through sandstorms in the Gobi desert to barreling down rapids in a dugout canoe, this perilous adventure, and Charlie’s many encounters along the way, gives insight into the past, present, and future of often-overlooked places during periods of great change.

The touch of a Kitsune always comes with a price. New Orleans, Louisiana - Kota Tamashi is a Kitsune Fox Spirit that specializes in naughty naughty pleasures and women are his prey. The magic of his kiss and the rhythm of his hips are wicked good - enchanted even. Have you ever craved someone so bad you thought that you might lose your mind? Well, one kiss from a Kitsune might wreck your life for one day, one month, or even a year - the effects may vary. But without a doubt, his touch will have you looking for him in the daylight with a flashlight at a million man march. All for one more ...