Sara Wheeler

Words Writ on a Camel’s Shoulder

Hilary Bradt

No Country for Old Men

The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story

By John Gimlette

Victoria Brittain

Plucky Couple Stuck on the African Railways

Blood on the Tracks

By Miles Bredin

Richard Dowden

The Vampires of Africa

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

By Paul Theroux

Andrew Lycett

The Great Globe Itself

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Charles Sturridge

Labels & Remote People

Labels

By Evelyn Waugh

Remote People

By Evelyn Waugh

Quentin Crewe

Birds Drop from the Skies

A Desert Dies

By Michael Asher

Aidan Hartley

Waifs and Strays

Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-Torn Angola

By Pedro Rosa Mendes, Clifford Landers (trans)

Justin Marozzi

Perishing Pioneers

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu

By Anthony Sattin

Alexander Maitland

Into Africa

Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

By Tim Jeal

Andrew Lycett

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

By V S Naipaul

Michael Holman

Les Fous D’Afrique

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

By Richard Dowden

Aidan Hartley

Doing the Lord’s Work

The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted

By Matthew Green

Patrick Marnham

Road to Nowhere

Congo: The Epic History of a People

By David Van Reybrouck (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo

By Anjan Sundaram

Christopher Ondaatje

Riddle of A River

The Quest for the Secret Nile

By Guy Yeoman

Michael Holman

Out of Love with Africa

The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola

By Paul Theroux

Michael Holman

Oil Be Damned

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola

By Daniel Metcalfe