With amazing low-light capabilities, incredible definition, intelligent autofocus and a host of other features, digital cameras have now become so powerful that they have left their users behind.Most photographers can take competent shots in a range of conditions, or fix imperfect exposures in Photoshop or Lightroom, but very few have the skill to push their cameras to the limit and capture the perfect shot, under all conditions, with no post-processing required.In Came...

Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform 1811-1870; Masters of Medicine is a comprehensive biography that delves into the life and groundbreaking achievements of Sir James Young Simpson, one of the most influential figures in the history of medicine. This meticulously researched volume traces Simpson’s journey from his humble beginnings in Scotland to his rise as a pioneering physician and professor of midwifery at the University of Edinburgh. The book provides a vivid portrait of the 19th-c...

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1825 edition by John Murray, London.This is an illustrated editionMajor Alexander Gordon Laing (27 December 1793 – 26 September 1826) was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu via the north/south route. His travels as a member of the military brought him around the globe, from Jamaica, to Honduras, to Sierra Leone and beyond. In 1822, by then a captain, he transferred to the Royal African Colonial Corps. Together with a smal...

Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river-steamboat for an ivory trading company. He describes his passage on ships to the wilderness to the Company's station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation: disorganized, machinery parts here and there, periodic demolition explosions, weakened native black men who have been demoralized, in chains, litera...

After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the inter...

As she shares her extraordinary stories of fighting human trafficking as an ordinary mom, Kimberly Smith offers hope for readers who wonder if God is calling them to greater things.Passport Through Darkness takes readers on Smith’s journey from normal family life and business, to Europe, to the deserts of Africa and ultimately, to the deserts of her own soul as she tries to live well as an imperfect American mom, crusade for justice for orphans around the ...

Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction written by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Green Hills of Africa is divided into four parts: "Pursuit and Conversation", "Pursuit Remembered", "Pursuit and Failure", and "Pursuit as Happiness", each of which plays a different role in the story.

From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa.NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent...

Brash hustlers, sinister colonels, resilient refugees, and intrepid radio hosts: meet the future of CongoIn this extraordinary debut – called ‘gripping’ by The Times of London – Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news from a forgotten town deep in Congo’s ‘silent quarter’ where peace is finally being built after two decades of civil war and devastation. Ignoring the advice of locals, reporters, and mercenaries, he travels by foot, bike, and boat, introduc...

Narrating his experiences in Africa, Baker has dwelled upon the wild and untamed beauty of the land. He elaborates the culture of the people, their religion as well as the wild-life and its habitat. The book offers a detailed study of the area with a profound personal touch and opinions of the author.

A white girl disappears in the Congo jungle. A Belgian planter escapes his past. An African king bests an award-winning American journalist in a contest of will.Author Frederic Hunter developed these stories from his experience as a State Department official and a journalist in Africa in the 1960s.Africa, Africa! is a tour de force by a distinguished writer. It is powerful and sometimes chilling in its emotional landscapes, accurately conveying the disorientation and disloc...

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London.The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.This edition includes illustrations.Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham.The book narrates the story of eleven years of...