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Favorite books about Africa and the Congo
The Green Hills of Africa – Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1935
West with the Night – Beryl Markham
Houghton-Mifflin, 1942
The Tree Where Man Was Born – Peter Matthiessen
E.P. Dutton, 1983
African Silences – Peter Matthiessen
Random House, 1991
Africa: A Biography of the Continent – John Reader
Knopf, 1997
King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild
Houghton-Mifflin, 1998
The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo – Robert Edgerton
St. Martin’s Press, 2002
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingston – Martin Dugard
Doubleday, 2003
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer – Tim Jeal
Yale University Press, 2007
The Unheard, A Memoir of Deafness and Africa – Josh Swiller
Henry Holt, 2007
Useful books about natural life in Africa
The Safari Companion, A Guide to Watching African Mammals – Richard Estes
Chelsea Green Publishing, 1993
Signs of the Wild – Clive Walker
Struik, 1996
Roberts’ Birds of Southern Africa – Austin Roberts
John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1985
Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa, John Williams
Collins, 1980
Valley of the Elephants – Norman Carr
Collins, 1979
Portraits in the Wild: Behavior Studies of East African Mammals – Cynthia Moss
Houghton-Mifflin, 1975
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