Into Africa: A Journey Through The Ancient Empires

by Marq De Villiers (Author), Sheila Hirtle (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.25

  This is not a dense country-by-country encyclopedia but an immersion into the cultural variety of Africa, providing the reader with a layered portrait of the continent. The discoveries and experiences of the travel writing knit the book together and is flavoured by verbal snapshots, images,anecdotes, legends, tales,gossip, photographs, art and maps that lend depth and insight to the portrait.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.25

  A brilliant picture of a rich, exotic, complex and fascinating continent in the style of Bruce Chatwin. Verbal snapshots, images, anecdotes, legends, tales, gossip, illustrations, photographs, art and maps lend insight and depth to this multi-layered portrait of a continent. Into Africa uses the ancient empires and trading patterns of prehistory as the primary framework, to explain how Africa was and is today. The book does not ignore the calamities, the collapse of civil authority, the wars, the famines, the human misery, the environmental degradation. But it does record the triumphs, small and large. More important, Into Africa goes beyond politics and tourism, into history and legend, art and culture, both popular and profound.