Biography
Author, broadcaster, photo-journalist, Nicholas Hordern's best-selling books include GOD, GOLD & GLORY (Doubleday US/Readers' Digest). A regular broadcaster on BBC World Service - audience 150 million, he was Chairman of the Books Committee of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, and has written for Newsweek International and other major print media.
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Africa / History / Culture
A Journey In Time Around Africa
A stunning voyage of discovery around Africa by dhow, plane, Land Rover and camel. Following a unique route he traces the history of the continent's proud pre-colonial civilisations in a continuous chronological sweep to present day. New facts are revealed and latest research uncovered as the continent that records man's first footprints on earth is also witness to many of mankind's most important technological breakthroughs.
From 200 stone palaces deep in Africa's interior built half a millennium before the arrival of the Portuguese, to 2,000 year-old underground villas with fountains beneath desert sands; from 37 African stone coastal City Kingdoms like a lustrous string of pearls suspended along the Indian Ocean, to the Queen of Sheba's Olympic-sized swimming pool, Africa dazzles and surprises on every page. Immensely readable, accurate and entertaining, this book dispels the view as Africa being a 'Dark Continent'. Illustrated with many original photographs. Partial MS available.
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