Search Results: Africa from WellRead Books

NY: Travel Trade, 1972. 4to.; glossy pictorial stapled wraps, softcover; 12 pages; color and black and white photographic illustrations and maps; includes: Tourist and transportation map of Zambia, The land and its people, Zambia's cities, Sports, Game Viewing, Accommodations, Transportation, and General tourist information; wraps are lightly edgeworn with a 1 inch closed tear at top spine end else very good.

Nairobi, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1986. small 4to., stiff yellow and black wraps, softcover; 147 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; articles include: Engaruka Revisited: Excavations of 1982; The Irrigation and Manuring of the Engaruka Field System; The Pastoral Neolithic of West Kilimanjaro; Early Iron Furnaces with ‘Bricks' in Rwanda: Complementary evidence from Mutwarubona; Microenvironments, Swidden and the Early Iron Age Settlement of south-western Zambia; Rhapta, Metropolis of Azania; Toward a Definition of the Term Zanj; and The Mtambwe Hoard; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.

Nairobi, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1985. small 4to., stiff yellow and black wraps, softcover; 188 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; articles include: Petrographic and Physico-chemical Studies of Early Pottery from southwestern Kenya by Jean Langdon and Peter Robertshaw; Excavations at Masai Gorge Rockshelter, Naivasha by Stanley H. Ambrose; Faunal Assemblages from Masai Gorge and Marula Rockshelter and Excavations in Lakes Province, southern Sudan by Peter Robertshaw and Ari Shriainen; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.

Nairobi, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1990. small 4to., stiff yellow and black wraps, softcover; 169 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; Special volume on Archaeological sites of East Africa: four studies; Engaruka: an irrigation agricultural community in northern Tanzania before the Maasai; Ntusi and Bigo: farmers, cattle-herders and rulers in western Uganda, AD 1000-1500; Hyrax Hill and the later archaeology of the Central Rift Valley of Kenya; an Kilwa: a history of the ancient Swahili town with a guide to the monuments of Kilwa Kisiwani and adjacent islands; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.

Nairobi, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1999. small 4to., stiff yellow and black wraps, softcover; 153 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; articles include: The Early Iron Age on Mafia island and its relationship with the mainland; Quiha Rock Shelter, Ethiopia; Implications for domestication by Tertia Barnett;Meroitic ceramic chronology: Exploring the Meroe West cemeteries by D.N. Edwards; War and militarism in pre-colonial Bugand by Richard Reid; The decoration of Fakhr-al-Din Mosque in Mogadishus and other pieces of Gujarati marble carving on the East African coast by E. Lambourn; Elusive wattle-and-daub: Finding the hidden majority in the archaeology of the Swahili by J. Fleisher and A. Laviolette; edge chipped front cover else a very good clean tight copy.

Nairobi, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1987. small 4to., stiff yellow and black wraps, softcover100 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; articles include; Hyrax Hill and the Sirikwa: New excavations on SiteII; Terminal Palaeolithic Blade Assemblagers from Khashm el Girba, Eastern Sudan; The Manuscript Bindings of Harar: a preliminary examination; Gabra Oromo Transition Rites (Jila); African Demons and Dead Edgyptians and A New Look at Ankole Capital Sites; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.

Nairobi, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1990. small 4to., stiff yellow and black wraps, softcover; black and white illustrations and maps; articles include: The Nineteenth-century Carved Wooden Doors of the East African Coast; Iron Age Settlement; Salt-production at Kibiro; Fixed Shrines and Spiritual Centres in the Upper Nile; Horn-shaping Ground-stone Axe-hammers; Ancient and Modern Ceramic Traditions in the Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya; ‘And So They Called a Kiva',Histories of a war; and index for Azania I-XXV (1966 - 1990) ; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.

Nairobi, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1983. small 4to., stiff yellow and black wraps, softcover; 207 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; articles include: Shell Middens on the Shores of Lake Victoria; Excavations at Ngenyn (Baringo District, Kenya); Excavations at Rigo Cave in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya; Kings, Cattle and Blacksmiths: Royal Insignia and Religious Symbolism in the Interlacustrine States; Pottery Traditions of Early Pastoral Communities in Kenya; A Linguistic Reconsideration of Swahili Origins; Archaeological Remains on the Southern Somali Coast; Recent Work at Soba East in Central Sudan; and The Tents of the Ethiopian Court ; a very good clean tight copy with one tiny soil spot on the front cover.

Nairobi: Longman Kenya Limited (1978). First Edition; 8vo; stiff color pictorial covers; softcover; 74 pages; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; lightly sunned and rubbed covers with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.

London: Ernest Benn Limited (1968). First edition; from the Nations of the Modern World Series; 8vo.; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 238 pages; glossy black and white photographic illustrations and a black and white fold-out map; a very good clean, tight copy with map intact and in a lightly rubbed, edgeworn and foxed unclipped dust jacket.

Ames, IA: Iowa State University, 1991. Small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 60 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; French and English text; articles include: 1991 Assante Research Project(Ghana); Excavations at Ryamurari, Northeast Rwanda; The University of Geneva Archaeological Mission to Kerma (Sudan); and Recent Archaeological Surveys in Wester Uganda; lightly sunned else a very good clean tight copy.

Duluth, MN: University of Minnesota, 1992. Small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 70 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; French and English text; articles include: 1991 Excavations and Laboratory Work in Gabon; Recent Excavations at Gogo Falls in Wester Kenya; Radiocarbon Dates from Mesolithic Sites in the Atbara Region, Sudan; and An Archaeological Survey of the Songwe River Basin, Southwestern Tanzania; 2 book order forms laid in; a very good clean tight copy.

Ames, IA: Iowa State University, 1990. Small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 54 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; 2 book order forms laid in; French and English text; articles include: Recherches Archeologiques dans le Nord-Quest: Le Site Metallurgique de BA(Cameroon); Recent Publications on the Archaeology of Madagascar and the Comoros Islands; and Ntusi and Its Hinterland: Further Investigations of the Later iron Age and Pastoral Ecology in Southern Uganda; a very good clean tight copy.

Dulth MN: University of Minnesota,1992. Small 4to., stiff pictorial black and yellow stiff wraps, softcover; 74 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; topics include: archaeological survey and excavations in Eastern Botswana; excavations in Cameroon; a further report on Farafra (Western Desert, Egypt); radiocarbon dates from Asante (Ghana) sites; recent findings of Middle Stone Age Material from East Turkana; Sangoan Technology and Habitat at Simbi; recent investigations in landscape archaeology at East Turkana; the Middle Senegal Valley Project: preliminary results from the 1990-91 field season; the University of Rome Prehistoric Mission at El Geili (Khartoum); University of Khartoum Mahas Survey, Nubia:1990-91 field seasons; and archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research in the zones of Rutshuru and Masisi in Northern Kivu.

Duluth, MN: University of Minnesota, 1993. Small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 80 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; French and English text; articles include: Prospection des Sites d'Habitat dans les Arondissements de Djoum et Mintom(Sud-Cameroun); The Central Androy Project, Southern Madagascar; A Preliminary Reconnaissance and Survey at Gao(Mali); and Masaka Hill Revisited (Uganda); a very good clean tight copy.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, 1982. Small 4to; stapled stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 53 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; articles include: Research in Progress on the Capsian(Algeria); Tati Archaeological Research Project(Botswana); Artifact and Fossil Discoveries in the Afar Depression(Ethiopia), A Propos de l'Environnement Prehistorique et Protohistorique en Egypt; The 1982 Excavations at Qasr Ibrim(Nubia); French and English text; a very good clean tight copy.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: University of Alberta, 1995. Small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 72 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; French and English text; articles include: Continuing research at Shum Laka rock shelter, Cameroon(1993-1994 field season); Quelques resultants des enquetes menees sur la metallurgie du fer dans le Nord-Est et le Nord-Ouest de la Refublique Centrafricaine; Archaeological work in Gabon during 1993 and 1994; Protection du patrimoine archeologique au Zaire, and The Mumbwa Caves project, Zambia, 1993-94; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: University of Alberta, 1996. Small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 81 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; French and English text; articles include: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in Southeast Botswana, 1992; Fouilles archeologiques dans les savanes de Lope(Ogooue-Ivindo), Gabon; Rapport de la Mission 1995, and The Early Antandroy Kingdom, Excavation and Survey in Androy 1995(Madagascar); a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.

Nairobi, Kenya: Pachyderm, 2001. small 4to. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 109 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; topics include: two successful elephant translocations in Kenya; white rhinos and elephants in Garamba National Park; workshop on biological management of the black rhino; a very good clean tight copy.

Nairobi, Kenya: Pachyderm, 2002. small 4to. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 95 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; topics include: conflits homme-elephant autour de la Foret classee du Haut-Sassandra; miscounted population of the southern white rhinoceros; elephant diet at the edge of the Fynbos Biome, South Africa; aerial elephant count in the Shimba Hills; a very good clean tight copy.