Guest, a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters, concentrates on the neglected and perhaps most helpless and vulnerable victims of the AIDS epidemic...the millions of street orphans from all over Africa, especially in such sub-Saharan countries as South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda. Buy

Labels: Children, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Politics, Tanzania, Uganda

The White Masai combines adventure and the pursuit of passion in a story of two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds. Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa on Kenya's glamorous coast. Despite language and cultural barriers, they embark on an impossible love affair. Buy

Labels: Biography, Kenya, Tanzania, Women

Herds of antelope on the Serengeti, dhows on the Zanzibar coast, red-robed Maasai warriors, brilliant coral in sparkling seas - Lonely Planet shows you the best that Tanzania has to offer. Whether you want to watch wildlife, laze on the beach or ramble through Swahili ruins this guidebook is your indispensable companion. Buy

Labels: Tanzania, Travel Guide

Estes, who is affiliated with Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institute as a research associate, spent over eight years doing fieldwork in Africa and over 17 years leading safaris. His qualifications as an expert on the social ecology of African mammals are reflected in the text, which describes approximately 86 species of African mammals. Buy

Labels: Environment, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Travel Guide

This tightly focused guide reflects the area that is most popularly toured by first-time visitors to Tanzania. Featuring all the relevant detail of Philip Briggs' full Bradt guide to Tanzania, it also incorporates expanded coverage of the wildlife and natural history of the region plus extra environmental information, making it the indispensable companion to a safari in northern Tanzania's renowned national parks. Buy

Labels: Environment, Tanzania, Travel Guide

The value of Meredith's towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis, or its original insights; it is the sheer readability of the project, combined with a notable lack of pedantry, which makes it one of the decade's most important works on Africa. Spanning the entire continent, and covering the major upheavals more or less chronologically...from the promising era of independence to the most recent spate of infamies...Meredith brings us on a journey that is as illuminating as it is gruelling. Buy

Labels: Ghana, History, Kenya, Politics, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Nolen puts a very human face on HIV/AIDS in Africa, verbally and visually. A photograph accompanies each of the book's 28 personal histories (one subject stands for one million infected people in sub-Saharan Africa). The faces in the photos appear no different than faces of everyday Americans, but that appearance belies the horrific reality of lives shredded by devastating disease.

Labels: Biography, Ghana, Health, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Combining moments of danger with moments of profound introspection, mountaineer/explorer Ridgeway details his journey from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro through the Tsavo game reserves to Mombasa, a month-long journey on foot, which allows him to experience man's primal relationships with the environment. Buy

Labels: Armchair Travel, Environment, Tanzania

The author of Maasai now offers his life story: from his birth into a traditional society in Tanzania in 1949, through his youth, education in a mission school, and initiation as a warrior, to his career as a game park guide and ranger (subject of a National Geographic film, Man of the Serengeti ); to his studies in Munich and Boston and at the University of Michigan (where he received an M.S. in natural resources), to his return home, to be received back ritually into his family. Buy

Labels: Biography, Kenya, Tanzania

"After reading the first paragraph and faced with the statement, 'Three million people die each year from AIDS, a death toll that has been compared to twenty fully loaded 747s crashing every single day for a year', it seemed evident that there was more to this disease than I first thought. I remembered how many stories I saw on the news about airplanes crashing and the news coverage that followed. I can't remember the last news story I watched about AIDS" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Development, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

The Rough Guide to Tanzania is the definitive guide to one of Africa's most beautiful destinations. A 24-page, full-colour section introduces Tanzania's highlights, from the volcanic landscapes of the Ngorongoro Crater to the Indian Ocean beaches of Zanzibar. In addition, there are two, full-colour, 4-page inserts: A Year in Celebration and National Parks. Buy

Labels: Tanzania, Travel Guide

This novel is proof that truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's funnier. As you follow Balows on a budget safari through the wilds of Africa, you manage to feel sorry for his misadventures, while at the same time wishing you were there. Buy

Labels: Armchair Travel, Tanzania