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Adamson,
Joy. |
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- ISBN 0375714383 - Born Free |
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- ISBN 0006375898 - Forever Free: Elsa's Pride |
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- ISBN 0151529256 - Living Free: Elsa and her Cubs |
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- ISBN 0151716811 -
The Peoples of Kenya |
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Anderson,
David.
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- 0393059863 - Histories of the Hanged: the Dirty
War in Kenya and the End of Empire.
London, W.W. Norton, 2005. A new study
regarding Britain's final decade in Kenya. |
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Boyes,
John. |
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Brown,
Monty. |
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Cairns,
John. |
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Bush and Boma.
1959. A Canadian works as a District Officer in Tanganyika in the
1950s - ASIN: B0006D83KU |
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Dahl,
Roald. |
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- ISBN 0141303107 - Going Solo - Author
Roald Dahl's biography. In 1938, Dahl went to East Africa to work
for the Shell Company, but shortly after World War II began, he trained
as a fighter pilot. - paperback |
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| * | Dinesen,
Izak (Karen Blixen) |
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- ISBN 0679600213 - Out of Africa |
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African Women's League. |
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Edgerton, Robert B. |
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- ISBN 0345369785
- Mau Mau: an African Crucible.
New York, Ballantine Books, 1989. Paperback . |
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| * | Elkins,
Caroline |
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- ISBN 0805076530 - Imperial Reckoning:
The untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. (Note:
UK edition: is ISBN 022407363X - Britain's
Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya). |
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Fox, James. |
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ISBN 0394756878
- White Mischief - paperback . |
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Gallmann,
Kuki. |
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- ISBN 0060954833 - African
Nights - paperback
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- ISBN 0140287442 -
I Dreamed of Africa.
- paperback |
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Britain, Colonial Office.
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O/P -
Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau
(Corfield Report). London, HMSO, 1960 - paperback ASIN:
B0007IZQD6 |
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| * | Hardy, Ronald. The Iron Snake: the Story of the Uganda railway | |||
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Henderson,
Ian |
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| * | Hewitt,
Peter. |
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- ISBN 1919874364
- Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency
in Kenya |
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| * | Hunter,
J. A. and Dan Mannix.
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| * | Huxley,
Elspeth |
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- ISBN
0141183780
- The Flame Trees of Thika
- paperback
- ISBN
014005958 -
The Mottled Lizard
- paperback
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ISBN 0140092560
- Out in the Midday Sun -
paperback
- ISBN
0237517906 - Pioneers Scrapbook: Reminiscences of Kenya
1890-1968 O/P - ISBN 0141182059 - Red Strangers O/P - ISBN 0837171261 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Journey Through East Africa O/P - ISBN 0701108347 - White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya |
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Imperato,
Pascal James. |
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- ISBN 081332792X
- Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition Around an East African
Lake. |
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| O/P - I married adventure. 1940. Martin Johnson, the famous explorer and nature photographer who brought home stunning movies of Africa and the South Seas to eager Americans, spent more than 25 years crossing the country and the world with his cameras and his wife. Osa's colorful biography is also a wonderful love story. | ||||
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Kenyatta,
Jomo. |
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- ISBN 0394702107 - Facing Mount Kenya. |
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Maloba,
Wunyabari O. |
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- ISBN 0253211662 - Mau Mau and Kenya: an Analysis of a Peasant
Revolt (Blacks in the Diaspora). Indiana University Press,
1993. |
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Markham,
Beryl |
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- ISBN 0865471185 -
West with the Night
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Miller,
Charles. |
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- ISBN 0025849301 - Battle for the Bundu. World War
II in East Africa - paperback |
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- ISBN 0345233506 - The
Lunatic Express: an Entertainment in Imperialism.
The history of East Africa and the building of the Kenya-Uganda Railway
- paperback |
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- ISBN 0973629703 - White Man's Drum. First
book of trilogy. The 1950s were a critical decade when
African nationalism began to sweep through colonial Africa. Gordon
Mumford worked as an assistant engineer for the East Africa. Working
in remote areas, the safari crews encountered rugged terrain, weather
extremes, and wild animals. Halfway into the project, a civil war
erupted. BUY BOTH and save |
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- ISBN 0973629711 - Drums of Rebellion.
Second book of the trilogy. The story of the building of the VHF route
continues, but the country is now involved in a savage civil war.
When the book opens, Gordon is on Loldiani mountain with a work gang.
The civil war is a month old, but his workers are trustworthy. Or
are they? BUY BOTH & save |
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- ISBN
- In Fate's Footsteps. Third book of the trilogy
(available in 2008) . As Kenya moves towards independence, Gordon is
free to pursue his dream of becoming an engineer. But fate has something
else in store for him. |
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Mwakikagile,
Godfrey. |
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- ISBN 1560729678
- Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria: A Comparative Study. |
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Nicholls,
Christine S. |
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- ISBN 0312300417
-Elspeth Huxley, A Biography |
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amazon.co.uk - ISBN 1857252063 Red Strangers: the white tribe
of Kenya. |
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| * | Odhiambo, E. S. Atieno. | |||
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- ISBN 0821414844
- Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration |
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information, please see Old
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Percox,
David. |
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- ISBN 1850434603 - Britain, Kenya
and the Cold War: Imperial Defence, Colonial Security and Decolonisation. |
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Ridgeway,
Rick. |
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- ISBN 0805053891- The Shadow
of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa. |
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Thesiger,
Wilfred. |
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- ISBN: 0006383920
- My Kenya Days. London,
Flamingo, 1995 or Hardcover ISBN: 0006383920 |
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Trzebinski,
Errol. |
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- ISBN: 0393022870 - The
Kenya Pioneers.
Buy from Amazon |
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- ISBN 0393312526 - The
Lives of Beryl Markham.
0393312526 Amazon |
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Vavra,
Robert. |
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- ISBN 0688098908 - Tent with a
View: An Intimate African Experience. |
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White,
Luise. |
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- ISBN 0226895076 - The Comforts
of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. |
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WW II Bookshelf
for books about WW II.
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 African Adventures |
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May 16, 2008
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