Product Description: In a series of experiences between 1856 and 1877, several British-born explorers tried to unravel the mystery of the source of the Nile. This river, the longest in the world, flowed through the desert, bringing life in its floodwater every year...read more

Product Description: Leopard in the Afternoon is a captivating story of a journey through some of Africa's most spectacular haunts. The journey took the form of a quest for that most dangerous, most threatened of the African cats - the leopard. Beautiful, mysterious, savage and reclusive, the leopard came to dominate the author's thoughts and imagination...read more

Product Description: This is a fascinating story of a past rediscovered through a remarkable journey to one of the most exotic countries in the world - Sri Lanka. Full of drama and history, it not only relives the incredible story of a man-eating leopard that terrorized the tiny village of Punanai in the early part of the century, but also allows the author to come to terms with the ghost of his charismatic but tyrannical father...read more

Product Description: Sindh Revisited is the remarkable story of the author's fascination with the early life of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It is the story of an incredible journey, too - deep into the heart of British India, and the India and Sindh of today...read more

Dramatic full-color period photographs complement a intriguing look at Hemingway's lifelong fascination with Africa, following the trail of Hemingway's two major African safaris and analyzing the author's writings to explore the important influence of the continent on his life and work. Reprint.

Product Description: Africa was an obsession for Hemingway throughout his life. Long before he wrote his first published book review (of an African novel), The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Green Hills of Africa, or his posthumous novel, True at First Light (based on his final safari in 1953), he had been enthralled as a ten-year-old by newspaper accounts of the African expedition undertaken in 1909 by his boyhood idol, Theodore Roosevelt...read more

Autobiographical account of a Sri Lanka born Canadian, woven around his journey through Sri Lanka. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The travels of Richard Burton, 19th-century traveller, orientalist, archaeologist, linguist, anthropologist and controversial diplomat, are traced in this text. The book is both a biography and exploration of the British India of yesterday and the India and Sindh of today.