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Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist travel guide is for you. Greater Than a Tourist: Kenya by Gloria Omundo Alia offers the inside scoop on Kenya. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this guide will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Simple Swahili for English Speakers is your friendly and practical guide to mastering basic Swahili. Designed for travelers, students, and anyone passionate about East African culture, this book offers easy explanations, everyday vocabulary, real conversations, and cultural insights. Whether you are preparing for a trip to Tanzania, exploring the beauty of Zanzibar, or simply embracing the Swahili spirit of “Hakuna Matata,” this guide will help you speak with confidence and connect with people warmly. With clear lessons on greetings, numbers, shopping, family, travel, health, emotions, ...

Greater than a Tourist: Faiyum Governorate Egypt by Fouad Wagih gives you the inside scoop on Faiyum Governorate. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II...

It is the early '70s. Two best friends and a toddler (the future rock star Melissa Auf der Maur) set out in a red post office van on a 2,000-mile drive from Hay-on-Wye in Wales to Marrakesh in North Africa. Their meandering journey changes abruptly when they meet two American drug dealers from Amsterdam on a secret intelligence mission, with a plentiful supply of pure black Afghan hash. Amidst the dope smoking world of gangster aristocrats and dislocated hippies, they gaze into the hidden worlds within ancient Venetian glass goulamine beads, and that’s when worlds collide.

In this thrilling road trip from "Peking to Paris", a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down. In May 2007, leaving China’s Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It’s guided by one Dina Bennett, the world’s least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong?

At the age of sixty, and having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over ten years, Guy Deacon CBE set out on one last adventure: to drive solo from his home in the UK 18,000 miles and through twenty-five countries to Cape Town on the southern tip of Africa. This incredible journey, across Europe and down the full length of Africa, took the former British Army officer over twelve months. Along the way, he broke down five times, underwent one emergency evacuation, and took 3,650 prescription pills.

Discover Africa Like You’ve Never Seen It Before Beyond the Big 5 is your ultimate guide to off-the-beaten-path travel in Southern Africa — from sacred waterfalls and ancient rock art to desert ghost towns and community-run eco lodges. This beautifully written guidebook is packed with hidden gems, local secrets, and bucket list experiences you won’t find on mainstream tours. Whether you're dreaming of hiking to Maletsunyane Falls in Lesotho, canoeing the Zambezi River, chasing wildflowers on Malawi’s Nyika Plateau, or visiting the mystical Tsodilo Hills in Botswana, this book is ...

Tras los éxitos obtenidos con El sueño de África (1996) y Vagabundo en África (1998), Javier Reverte nos acerca de nuevo al continente negro con Los caminos perdidos de África, llevándonos a conocer los territorios que el propio Reverte recorrió a lo largo de varios meses.

A reportage from the turbulent, chaotic birth of the free Angola; the author calls it his “first real book”. Ryszard Kapuściński arrives to a country divided by two armies. For some time he's the only foreign correspondent there. Among the unbelievable chaos, he meets more and more people whose fates become the illustration of the cruelty of war. This book is a unique combination of war reportage with literary artistry - so characteristic of Ryszard Kapuściński.

Even for the African continent that is blessed with numerous beautiful natural landscapes, the Okavango Delta is truly unique. Covering a total area of more than fifteen thousand square kilometres the Okawango River is the largest inland delta in the world. It flows from the Bihé Highlands in Angola and travels down to the less elevated regions of the Kalahari Desert until it finally divides into a variety of creeks. The delta's relatively few visitors mean that the landscape is well protected and it also means that those who do come here can enjoy the scenery undisturbed.

Ethiopia is a beautiful country with a lot to offer. It has quite frankly--a lot of everything. Ethiopia has a long and robust history as rich as the coffee poured from an Ethiopian jebana (traditional Ethiopian coffee pot). I traveled to Ethiopia and was amazed at what I found. This book chronicles that adventure, as well as provides a general overview of what a traveler to Ethiopia can expect. Ethiopia is a wonderful place to visit, with great food, culture, and people. Let this book serve as the ultimate guide for those wishing to travel to Ethiopia.

TRANSFORM YOUR FREELANCE CAREER IN AFRICA'S MOST STUNNING BUSINESS HUB Struggling with high living costs while building your freelancing business? What if you could earn in USD/EUR while living like royalty in one of the world's most beautiful cities? Cape Town isn't just a travel destination—it's your secret weapon for freelance success. This comprehensive digital nomad Cape Town guide reveals how savvy remote workers are building six-figure businesses while paying a fraction of Western living costs. From visa strategies to client acquisition, you'll discover the exact blueprint used by ...

From NY Times and International Bestselling Author Geoffrey Jenkins. Hallam Cane, a British engineer, arrives at desolate Cape Agulhas – the southernmost tip of Africa – to lead a geothermal project tasked with building a clean energy generating facility to supply the southern African region. Utilizing a newly discovered inexhaustible source for its power needs. But why has the project been beset by so many unexplained accidents, including a suicide and mugging? Why is there a Russian diving team nearby trying to salvage the wreck of a ship sunk in 1904? Why is the American government ...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is...

Marcus Slater decides to forgo the cold, wet, wintry weather of England to join a walking party in the sunny climes of Morocco. There, against a backdrop of the curious, ancient towns of southern Morocco he meets the enigmatic Sylvia and finds himself embroiled in a game he cannot possibly afford to lose.

Few artists have captured the world’s imagination so deeply, yet remain so enigmatic, as Fela Anikulapo Kuti. “Fela,” as his millions of fans across the world know him, was one of the most outspoken and talented musicians of the 20th century. His 1975 album Expensive Shit showcases the best of his defiance and artistry. The album, consisting of two, twelve-minute songs, is the gold standard for Afrobeat music. In it, Fela fuses his jazz roots with James Brown-style funk, Marley-esque protest lyrics, and 1970s Black Power sentiments. The result is an inimitable African sound: a ...

Most people would regard it as irresponsible madness for a father to take his 17-year-old son, riding old and somewhat worn-out XT500 motorcycles, on a four-month ride across Africa. But Lawrence Bansby did. Lawrence and his son Gareth set off on their old but bulletproof XT500s with a handful of spare parts, very little money, and the three Michelin maps that cover Africa. The plan was to travel north from their home in Natal, South Africa, then west through Zaire, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger, and, finally, across the Sahara through Algeria, but it was not to be.

An epic journey through Africa by a man who fell in love with a magical and disappearing world and then transformed himself into a warrior on the front lines to protect it. Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his organization, The Last Great Ape (LAGA), have put countless poachers and traffickers of endangered species behind bars, and they have fought back against a Kafkaesque culture of corruption. Before Ofir arrived in Cameroon, no one had ever even tried.

Dangerous things happen in Africa. People disappear. Everybody knows that. But as an outsider, Paul thinks he is safe, even from the secret police, whatever he starts to find, or wherever it leads; despite the turmoil leading up to the country’s first multi party election and with a diamond fuelled civil war raging in the failed state just across the border. But when Paul finds himself and his friends trapped holding a potentially deadly secret as the country begins to implode, what will he be prepared to do to protect himself and those around him in order to escape? Set in East Africa in...