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      By Vassanji, M. G
       2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Bio V111a    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: From and a GG winner for non-fiction for his previous memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa - a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land. From a description of Zanzibar and its evolution to a visit to a slave-market town at Lake Tanganyika; Vassanji combines brilliant prose, thoughtful and candid observations. Born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania, Canadian author M.G. Vassanji is a two-time Giller Fiction Prize winner, for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. He lives in Toronto.
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      By Palin, Michael  Pao, Basil
       c2002., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: 916.604 P162s    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The intrepid traveller packs his rucksack with bare essentials and sets off once more to capture the spirit of adventure. "Sahara", which ties in with a major new BBC series, finds Michael and his team undertaking one of their most ambitious journeys yet. This desert reveals not the emptiness of sand dunes, but a huge and diverse range of cultures and landscapes, and a long history of civilization, trade, commerce, and conquest.