Africa: A Biography of the Continent - Hardcover

Reader, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679409793 ISBN 13: 9780679409793

Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line, 1998

Synopsis

A panoramic, illustrated history of Africa from the dawn of human history to the end of apartheid charts the rise and fall of its civilizations, its complex history of slavery, its struggle with colonialism, and its great diversity. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

John Reader is a writer and photojournalist. Born in London in 1937, he lived and traveled in Africa for many years. He currently holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. His previous books include Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man (1981), Kilimanjaro (1982), and Man on Earth (1988). He lives in London.

From the Inside Flap:

meval cataclysms that formed the continent to the civil wars and genocide that ravage it today--a work of startling grandeur and scope that provides a remarkable panoramic history of Africa, by a deeply intelligent writer who has spent most of his adult life there.

We all originated in Africa, and no matter what our race, our most ancient relationship is with that continent. Reader tells the story of our earliest ancestors' adaptation to Africa's ferocious obstacles of jungle, river, and desert, and of how its unique array of animals, plants, viruses, and parasites has over millions of years helped and hindered human progress to a degree unknown anywhere else on Earth.

Illustrated with many of the author's own beautiful photographs, which capture the staggering diversity of human experience in every part of the continent--from the inland estuaries of the Niger and the rain forests of the Equator, to the deserts of the north and the high veld of the south--this book weaves tog

About this edition

• Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679409793
• ISBN 13: 9780679409793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 801