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  • Ahmed of Marsabit
    N.W. MARTIN
    Ahmed the Elephant, the King of MarsabitBorn around 1919 in the forests of Marsabit, northern Kenya, Ahmed grew into an elephant unlike any other.Known for his enormous tusks, he was familiar to the Rendille and Borana people long before his name reached the wider world. By the 1950s and 1960s, Ahmed had become known to hunters, wildlife officials, and men such as George Adamso...
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    20,59 €

  • Happy Valley
    N.W. MARTIN
    Thomas and Clara Erskine leave behind their quiet life in London after an unexpected inheritance draws them to a coffee farm in the White Highlands near Nyeri. What begins as the promise of a new future soon draws them into the most notorious society in the British Empire.As they travel from Mombasa to Nairobi, dine at the legendary Norfolk Hotel, and build a life beneath the s...
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    25,72 €

  • HUNTING IN AFRICA
    N.W. MARTIN
    In the 1950s, Edward Collins is a war scarred safari hunter in Nairobi when Arthur Hargreaves, a senior officer in the Game Department, offers him a six month contract to track down the organized gangs slaughtering elephants and rhinos across the northern territories, and discover who is arming them. With him is Walker, an American photographer determined to finally capture som...
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    24,46 €

  • Above the Clouds
    N.W. MARTIN
    In 1984, Robert Turner is a geography teacher from Denver who has spent more than a decade teaching students about Mount Kilimanjaro without ever seeing Africa for himself. Maps, glaciers, altitude sickness, and expedition stories have filled his classroom for years, but a growing sense of unfinished ambition begins to follow him long after the school day ends.His closest frien...
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    18,37 €

  • The Devils of Tsavo
    N.W. MARTIN
    In 1898, as the Uganda Railway, known as the Lunatic Express, pushed inland across British East Africa, Eleanor Baird left Edinburgh for Mombasa to serve as a surgical nurse at the mission hospital at Mazeras, while Thomas Aldridge was sent to the Tsavo River crossing to complete a bridge already falling behind schedule.They met along the line between Mombasa and the interior, ...
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    21,38 €

  • THE LUNATIC EXPRESS
    N.W. MARTIN
    In the wild heart of Tsavo, East Africa, a woman’s search for her lost husband becomes a fight for her own life.It is the late 1800s. The British Empire is forcing a railway, a 'Lunatic Express', through the untamed land. The project is built on sweat and blood.Nora Shaw arrives from London. Her husband James, a railway surveyor, has vanished. She is determined to find him.Her ...
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    17,27 €

  • Mama Ngina Kenyatta Biography of Kenya’s First Lady and Her Legacy
    N.W. MARTIN
    Explore the extraordinary life of Mama Ngina Kenyatta, widow of Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta and mother of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Born in 1933 in Ngenda, Kiambu, she grew from a child of rural colonial Kenya into the woman who would stand beside Kenya’s first president and become the country’s first First Lady.Spanning nearly a century of Kenyan history, this bio...
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    17,39 €

  • The White Highlands and the Mau Mau With the Rucks, Leakeys, and Kikuyu Freedom Fighters, 1952-1961
    N.W. MARTIN
    She arrived in Kenya as a Princess and left as a Queen.In February 1952, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of England traveled to colonial Kenya with her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. While staying at Treetops in the Aberdare Range, history changed forever.On 6 February 1952, her father, His Majesty King George VI, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and No...
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    22,39 €

  • WHITE SETTLERS IN KENYA Colonial Arrival and Settlement in the Kikuyu Homelands, 1901-1908
    N.W. MARTIN
    Sir Charles Eliot, KCMG (1862-1931), His Majesty’s Commissioner for the East Africa Protectorate, gazed at maps of the White Highlands, seeing opportunity where the Kikuyu saw home.The Governor’s Plan:In the raw, tin-roofed bustle of Nairobi, His Majesty’s Commissioner, Sir Charles Eliot, stares at a map. His mandate from London is clear: make the costly Uganda Railway pay. His...
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    24,74 €

  • Hunting in Africa An African Safari Thriller
    N.W. MARTIN
    In the 1950s three men set out on a hunting safari in the heart of Africa. Edward Collins, a hardened ex-soldier. Richard Lawson, a wealthy thrill-seeker. James Walker, a young American photographer chasing the perfect shot. They came armed with powerful rifles and big ambitions, certain they could conquer the wild.But the African bush was waiting.With them were seasoned porter...
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    20,94 €

  • Life Starts at 40
    N.W. MARTIN
    Are you above 40 and feel like you have achieved nothing in life? Are you facing a midlife crisis and looking for a breakthrough?This book will show you that it is not too late-you are not behind, and your best years can still be ahead of you.Life Starts at 40: 20 Famous Celebrities Who Achieved Success After 40reveals inspiring real-life stories of men and women who reached th...
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    13,20 €

  • Wangari Maathai Biography of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who Founded the Green Belt Movement
    N.W. MARTIN / S.A. Whitaker
    Discover the extraordinary life of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and a trailblazer in environmental activism. This inspiring biography explores her journey from humble beginnings to becoming a global symbol of courage, determination, and change.Inside this biography, you’ll learn about:Her founding of the Green Belt Movement, planting mil...
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    14,40 €

  • Scars That Speak
    N.W. MARTIN
    Some scars are visible. Others are buried deep. All of them speak.When a life-changing injury left the author with a visible scar, the pain went far beyond the skin. What followed was years of silence, shame, and isolation-fueled not just by the wound itself, but by the fear of being seen.Scars That Speak: A Survivor’s Story is a raw, honest, and deeply human memoir about what ...
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    11,55 €