"Musa and his sister travel to a Zanzibar beach in a shared minibus which, despite Musa's protests, gets loaded with everything from a man and his bicycle to ten swimmers"--OCLC.
The memoirs of Emily Ruete who was born a princess in Zanzibar, raised in a harem, married to a German, and then became embroiled in a bitter struggle for political control over the island during the period of nineteenth-century European colonialism.
Sets two illicit love affairs--between an Englishman and an Indian Muslim, and between their divorced granddaughter and a young Zanzibari--against the backdrop of colonial Zanzibar in 1899 and in the 1950s, just before independence.
Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition through Zanzibar, introducing some of the diverse wildlife found there, including monkeys, snakes, and giant snails, and crabs.
Presents a study of the plants and animals that inhabit Zanzibar, an archipelago in Eastern Africa, and discusses the coconut crab, Colobus monkeys, Acacia and Baobab trees, African land snails, and more.
A study of the history, legends, and life of both indigenous peoples and immigrants to two areas of East Africa, the ancient coastal land of Zenj and the kingdom of Buganda.
