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  Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

  by Kris Holloway

  What is it like to live and work in a remote corner of the world and befriend a courageous midwife who breaks traditional roles? Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mali Midwife is the inspiring story of Monique Dembele, an accidental midwife who became a legend, and Kris Holloway, the young Peace Corps volunteer who became her closest confidante. In a small village in Mali, West Africa, Monique saved... (more)
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  Reader's Digest Natural Wonders Of The World

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  Sahara

  by Michael Palin

  Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean. This was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert. Shrugging aside the perils of camel stew and being run over by the Paris-Dakar rally, he travels through some of the most spectacular landscapes on earth. For the... (more)
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  Jawel, commandant

  by Amadou Hampâté Bâ

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  Dirk Pitt Adventures: Book 11

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  by Clive Cussler

  1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental... (more)
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  Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali , Longman African Writers Series (Longman African Classics)

  by D. T. Niane

  Retold by generations of griots - the guardians of African culture - this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty of medieval African kingship. It is an epic - part history, part legend - and a great adventure story.
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  Segu

  by Maryse Conde

  Conde depicts the Bambara of 1797, a kingdom in Africa flourishing before thecoming of Islam and slavery. The tale follows the Traore family, a noble clanentrusted by the king. The four Traore sons embody the contemporaneous forcestearing at the very fabric of the nation.
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  Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa

  by Katherine A. Dettwyler

  1995 Margaret Mead Award winner! This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates important, not-soon-forgotten messages involving the more sobering aspects of conducting fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. With nutritional anthropology at its core, Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging and oftentimes dramatic stories from the field that relate the author's experiences... (more)
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  Malaria Dreams

  by Stuart Stevens

  Stevens and a former fashion model drove a tortuous route from the Central African Republic to Europe via Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Mali and Algeria. "Stevens is the author of Night Train to Turkestan ; his offbeat African odyssey is a rollicking successor," asserted PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Le Mali de Modibo Keïta (Collection "Points de vue")

  by Oumar Diarrah

  Text: French
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  Mali Blues: Traveling to an African Beat

  by Lieve Joris

  Mali Blues takes acclaimed writer Lieve Joris to West Africa. Traveling in Senegal, Mauritania and Mali, Joris finds countries troubled by drought, rebel uprisings and ethnic conflict. But the Africans she meets are survivors, fascinating individuals charting new ways of living between tradition and modernity. The story of Malinese blues singer Kar Kar (Boubacar Traoré) - celebrated in Europe, caught up in a... (more)