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The Dark of the Sun
by Wilbur Smith
Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by fighting, and to retrieve a consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerillas and hostile tribes - and one of his own men.
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The People of the Mist
by H. Rider Haggard
A penniless British adventurer seeks untold wealth in the wilds of the "Dark Continent" after losing his family lands and estates in this thrilling novel of romance, adventure, and lost peoples. An intensely engrossing tale.
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How I Found Livingstone
by Henry M. Stanley
This volume recounts Henry Stanley's search for David Livingstone, a missionary-explorer lost in Africa during the Victorian era. In 1870, the New York Herald sent journalist Stanley to track down the English missionary. In these pages the great explorer describes the famous adventure that not only led him to Livingstone, but that led to tremendous discoveries in a previously unknown land.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had... (more)
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The Story of Hennelie Hamster RUNNING WILD At Christmas time on a farm in Zimbabwe: A Christmas Story
by Nikki Ziehl
RUNNING WILD tells the story of Hennelie Hamster who miraculously at Christmas time, escapes from her cage in a farm house in Africa and flees from the humans and her so called partner, vindictive, cruel Harry Hamster, into the wilderness in search for freedom. On her journey she encounters many strange domestic and wild creatures, some threatening, and others friendly. During her ambitious mission she discovers... (more)
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Hercule Poirot: Book 3
Poirot Investigates
A Hercule Poirot Anthology
by Agatha Christie
Cross a movie star, an archaeologist, a French maid, a prime minister, a wealthy dowager, and an Italian count with Hercule Poirot and you get a collection of the detective's most intriguing criminal puzzles.
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The Yellow God
by H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was the eighth of ten children, and after an unimpressive childhood entered public service as a secretary to the governor of Natal. His career soon took him to the Transvaal in Africa. However, after two years he resigned, bought an ostrich farm, and then returned to England to marry. He went back to Africa and the ostrich farm with his wife, but it was close to the Boer rebellion and... (more)
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The Witch's Head
by H. Rider Haggard
An African fantasy of adventure and the supernatural by the author of King Solomon's Mines.
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The Adventurers' Club: Book 1
The Care and Taming of a Rogue
by Suzanne Enoch
How to tell if a man is an unrepentant rogue: 1. He has no patience for frivolous debutantes 2. He kisses you after a single dance 3. He makes you forget yourself and kiss him back . . . After years away from London, Captain Bennett Wolfe is back—and alive, much to Society's surprise. Having been presumed dead, this rugged adventurer is now much sought after by every marriage-minded young woman . . .... (more)
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The Last Bature
by Kenneth C. Ryeland
The Last Bature is a policeman's story set in Nibana, an imaginary West African state, shortly after gaining its independence from the British in 1962. What begins as a straightforward investigation by the last British policeman in the Northern Region and an African police inspector, quickly turns to intrigue when the intelligence services of the superpowers vie with each other to secure a breakthrough in weapons... (more)
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Tribal Gathering - Eight stories set in 1960's post-colonial West Africa
by Kenneth C Ryeland
Tribal Gathering is a collection of stories set in an imaginary West African state shortly after gaining its independence from the British in 1962. Struggling to come to terms with the tribalism, nepotism, corruption and greed that flourishes at all levels of society is part of everyday-life and relatively simple compared to the problems of surviving three military coups and a civil war. It is against this... (more)
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Grace Under Pressure: Five Tension-Filled Tales
by Michael Angel, J. D. Cutler
Ernest Hemingway once called ‘guts’ as ‘grace under pressure’. So expect grace (for the most part) from unexpected quarters as Angel and Cutler present their first short story anthology. Meet a down-on-his luck supermarket worker who finds a plea for help scrawled on a shopping list: HELP US PLEZE WE R KIDNAPED. Follow an eco-tourist’s frantic efforts to escape an African quarantine zone ravaged by a... (more)
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The Ghost Kings
by H. Rider Haggard
The afternoon was intensely terribly hot. Looked at from the high ground where they were encamped above the river the sea a mile or two to her right¿for this was the coast of Pondo-land¿to little Rachel Dove staring at it with sad eyes seemed an illimitable sheet of stagnant oil.
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by H. Rider Haggard
The day had been very hot even for the Transvaal, where the days still know how to be hot in the autumn, although the neck of the summer is broken-especially when the thunder-storms hold off for a week or two, as they do occasionally. Even the succulent b
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Allan Quatermain: Book 1
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
One of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century, King Solomon’s Mines has inspired dozens of adventure stories, including Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan books and the Indiana Jones movies. Vivid and enormously action-packed, H. Rider Haggard’s tale of danger and discovery continues to shock and thrill, as it has since it was first presented to the public and heralded as the most amazing book ever... (more)
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Benita
An African Romance
by H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. Haggard's father sent him to Africa as assistant secretary to Lieutenant-Governor of Nata, Sir Henry Bulwer. His larger-than-life adventurers in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe would appear in many of... (more)
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Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales
by H. Rider Haggard
Just so, reflected Smith, had their forefathers sung when, millenniums ago, they dragged that very sarcophagus from the quarries to the Nile, and from the Nile to the tomb whence it reappeared to-day, or when they slid the casing blocks of the pyramids up the great causeway and smooth slope of sand, and laid them in their dizzy resting-places. Only then each line of the immemorial chant of toil ended with an... (more)