Football inspires competition & inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, journalist Steve Bloomfield meets players & fans, politicians & rebel leaders, & discovers the role that football has played in shaping the continent. He recounts how football has helped to prop up an authoritarian regime in Egypt, end a conflict in Cote d` Ivoire & provide a tiny ray of light in war-torn Somalia. Africa United is a superb, modern-day portrait of Africa, told through the game that unites it. ...

Africa West in the Countries & Regions series from Lonely Planet, market-leading comprehensive guides aimed at independent travellers & serving a large range of international destinations. Frank & informal in style, the guides explore an extensive range of sights, activities, accommodation, restaurants & nightlife & are designed for practical use while travelling on the road. Written & researched by a team of experts, each book is independent in its recommendations & suggestions, often offering individual takes on individual destinations. Widely recognised for their reliability, each Lonely Planet country & region guide has the same layout. Introductory sections profile the destination with individual chapters on particular highlights, getting started, (including when to go) itineraries, history, culture, arts, food & drink & the environment. Each guide is organised geographically by region, with individual sections detailing an extensive range of sights, places of interest, attractions, restaurants, nightlife, accommodation & any local activities. The guides have detailed explanations of historical context where relevant. There is also practical guidance on ...

Western Africa`s Coastal Countries at 1:2, 200, 000 on an indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant road map with topographic & tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet & covers countries from Senegal to Nigeria, Burkina Faso, plus southern Mali, with inset showing the Cape Verde Islands. Detailed road network & railways are easy to see on a clear base which shows the area’s topography by altitude colouring with contours, spot heights, names of hill ranges, swamps, seasonal rivers, etc. Internal administrative boundaries are shown with names of the provinces. Road network

Includes:: unsurfaced roads & tracks, indicating locations of petrol stations & border crossings. A wide range of symbols highlights various places of interest, including UNESCO heritage sites, national parks & nature reserves, turtle protection areas, selected accommodation (lodges, hotels, campsites), etc. The map has a latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 1° & an index of place names which also lists national parks. Map legend

Includes:: English.*” World Mapping Project”* is an extensive series of maps at varying scales, aiming to provide coverage of countries & regions worldwide using clear, well presented cartography with both topographic & tourist information.



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Indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant road map of the Saharan region of Western Africa with topographic & tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet. Detailed road network & railways are easy to see on a clear base which shows the area’s topography by altitude colouring with contours, spot heights, names of hill ranges, swamps, seasonal rivers, etc. Internal administrative boundaries are shown with names of the provinces. Road network

Includes:: unsurfaced roads & tracks, indicating locations of petrol stations & border crossings. Local airfields are also marked. A wide range of symbols highlight various places of interest, including UNESCO heritage sites, rock paintings, national parks & nature reserves, oases, selected accommodation (lodges, hotels, campsites), medical facilities, wells & hot springs, fishing & beach resorts along the Atlantic coast, etc. The map has a latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 2° & an index of place names. Map legend

Includes:: English.*” World Mapping Project”* is an extensive series of maps at varying scales, aiming to provide coverage of countries & regions worldwide using clear, well presented cartography with both topographic & tourist information.



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There are three routes one can follow on an overland expedition from Europe to Cape Town (or the reverse). Last year, ITMB published the eastern route, via Cairo & Sudan to Ethiopia & Kenya. This year, we are pleased to announce the publication of a more practical route to follow, via Tangier, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali & Ghana, through the Congo to Uganda, & then south over a variety of options to Namibia & South Africa. The advantage of this route is that it avoids the conflict-ridden countries closest to infection from the extremist Islam movement. It also avoids the current difficulties of the central route through Algeria (the Hoggar route) & Niger. As the first volume focused on the eastern routes (Africa Overland), this volume focuses more on westerly routes. In addition to providing route maps through all the countries involved (shown on the back cover of the book), 43 full-page maps of cities along the route are included, such as Casablanca, Nouakchott, Banjul, Bobo Diolasso, Lome, Douala, Kigali, Abuja, Livingstone & other cities never before included in a travel atlas of Africa. ...

Africa, 6-Pack Cross-Border Map Collection: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, Swaziland & Zambia is a set of six country maps from the South African publishers International Motoring Productions. The maps have somewhat simplified cartography & are designed to provide GPS coordinates for main settlements, road junctions & selected recommended accommodation. The amount of detail provided on each map varies from country to country, so for more information please click below to descriptions of individual titles. ...

Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about & reporting on real Africans & the realities of life in Africa's many & varied lands. Like many young Westerners, he first went to Africa to 'save' it, but he stayed to learn from it. Africans taught him how to laugh & dance, how to tease but not comm&, how not to expect the truth & never to blurt it out, how to avoid danger, & how to be patient. Very, very patient. Such patience has served Dowden well, for he returns now from his decades-long journey among Africans with a report on their various ways & dreams, their priorities & pressures, that is far more revealing about the past, present & future of this fascinating & bewildering continent than any number of war stories or economic reports. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the unblinking scholar's grasp of historical change to produce one of the most compelling & revealing accounts of modern sub-Saharan Africa yet. His experiences there required him to re-evaluate all he had been taught to believe, his landmark book enables its readers to see & understand this miraculous continent in a new light too. ...

In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming & heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people & places, then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. ...

Map No. L-6 in the ONC series: military topographic survey mapping covering the world's land masses & significant islands at 1:1, 000, 000. The maps are useful as general topographical coverage where nothing else is available, although they are designed primarily as flying charts for military aircraft. ONC stands for Operational Navigation Chart. Relief is portrayed by a combination of contours (basic interval 1000ft, intermediate contours shown where appropriate), elevation tinting & relief shading, plus spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named & the road information is not necessarily up to date, as compilation & revision dates vary. Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Each ONC chart has both UTM & latitude/longitude grids overprinted on it, with additional margin ticks. IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: The series is gradually being withdrawn from sale to the general public & some sheets may no longer be available when ordered by us. Due to the nature of the map projection assembling these sheets to make a larger map is not recommended. in addition, colours used for relief are not constant throughout the series. In some areas of central Africa & South America the maps have blank spaces, reflecting localized deficiencies or inconsistencies in the survey data.
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Map No. L-1 in the ONC series: military topographic survey mapping covering the world's land masses & significant islands at 1:1, 000, 000. The maps are useful as general topographical coverage where nothing else is available, although they are designed primarily as flying charts for military aircraft. ONC stands for Operational Navigation Chart. Relief is portrayed by a combination of contours (basic interval 1000ft, intermediate contours shown where appropriate), elevation tinting & relief shading, plus spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named & the road information is not necessarily up to date, as compilation & revision dates vary. Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Each ONC chart has both UTM & latitude/longitude grids overprinted on it, with additional margin ticks. IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: The series is gradually being withdrawn from sale to the general public & some sheets may no longer be available when ordered by us. Due to the nature of the map projection assembling these sheets to make a larger map is not recommended. in addition, colours used for relief are not constant throughout the series. In some areas of central Africa & South America the maps have blank spaces, reflecting localized deficiencies or inconsistencies in the survey data.
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