Describes the history of East Africa from its earliest civilizations, its religions, land, climate, and languages, development of trade, arrival of European colonists, and struggle for independence.
Examines the history, language, lifestyle, social structure, culture, and religion of the major ethnic groups of East Africa, and includes a chronology, a pictorial history of the region, a glossary, and a language tree.
First published in 1907, this title depicts the author's adventures in Africa. One incident, involving two man-eating lions that were preying on railroad workers, is the basis for the current feature film, The Ghost and the Darkness.
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Upon arrival in East Africa, members of Ripley's Bureau of Investigation--RBI--discover the locals are terrified by the cries and strange sightings of unbelievable animals, but DUL agents show up and chase the RBI toward a mysterious, lost island.
