Tusker Trail: Books and Maps

"My guides, Simon and Nemes were great at motivating both early in the morning and also when the trail was tough."

Stewart G.
Eynsford
Kent, United Kingdom

Available at Longitude Books

Kilimanjaro

South Africa

Botswana

Zambia

Tanzania

Kenya

Uganda

Malawi

East Africa

West Africa

North Africa

Central Africa (Congo etc.)

Southern Africa

HISTORY & TRAVEL

AUTHOR

The Penguin Atlas of African History
(History of Geology & Population)

The River Congo
(History of Exploration)

The White Nile
(Exploration)

Expedition to the Zambesi
(Exploration)

Kilimanjaro
(Travel Experience)

Colin McEvedy

Peter Forbath

Alan Moorehead

David Livingstone

Willie Grove

RESEARCH & REFERENCE

AUTHOR

The Safari Companion
(Reference/Field Guide- Mammals)

Cry of the Kalahari
(Research & Atmosphere - Botswana)

The Eye of the Elephant
(Research & Atmosphere - Zambia)

Among the Elephants
(Research)

The Origin of Humankind
(Historical Anthropology)

Valley of the Elephants
(Zambia's Luangwa Valley)

Portraits in the Wild
(East African Wildlife/Reference)

The Birds of Southern Africa
(Reference/Field Guide)

Field Guide to the Birds of Southern Africa
(Reference/Field Guide)

Okavango - Jewel of the Kalahari
(Reference/Field Guide)

Richard Estes

Mark & Delia Owens

Mark & Delia Owens

Ian & Oria Douglas-Hamilton

Richard Leakey

Norman Carr

Cynthia Moss

Kenneth Newman

Ian Sinclair

Karen Ross

JOURNALISTIC

AUTHOR

The Africans
(Journalistic Notes & Observations)

Out of America
(Journalistic Notes & Observations)

Africa - Dispatches from a Fragile Continent
(Journalistic Notes & Observations)

Okavango: Africa's Last Eden
(Pictures & Reference)

David Lamb

Keith Richburg

Blaine Harden

Franz Lanting

FICTION & ATMOSPHERE

AUTHOR

Out of Africa
(Kenya Atmosphere)

The Tree Where Man Was Born
(Journalistic Notes & Observations)

The Book of Secrets
(Historical novel based in Tanzania - colonial to present)

Green Hills of Africa
(Fiction, Kenya Colonial)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(Fiction, Kenya Colonial)

North of South
(20th Century Travel & Atmosphere)

No Man's Land
(Journalistic Notes & Observations)

The Ghosts of Africa
(Historical Fiction - Selous Game Reserve Tanzania)

Black Mischief
(Fiction - Satire, East Africa)

Going Down River Road
(Fiction, Nairobi Kenya)

A Bend In The River
(Fiction, Zaire/Congo)

A Story Like The Wind
(Fiction, Kalahari Desert)

A Far Off Place
(Fiction, Kalahari Desert)

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Isak Dinesen

Peter Mathiessen

M.G. Vassanji

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Shiva Naipaul

John Heminway

William Stevenson

Evelyn Waugh

Meja Mwangi

V.S. Naipaul

Laurens Van der Post

Laurens Van der Post