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Featured Categories : Travel & Holiday : Countries & Regions : Africa : Zambia

• Zambia (Country Guides)

  Chris McIntyre

  
  
   

• Goodbye Rhodesia

  Chris Mears

  
  
   

• Zambia and Victoria Falls (Globetrotter Travel Map)

  
  
   

• Zambia and Victoria Falls (Globetrotter Travel Pack)

  William Gray

  
  
   

• Zambia (Bradt Travel Guide Zambia)

  Chris McIntyre

  
  
   

• Zambia (Lonely Planet Country Guide)

  David Else

  
  
   

• Zambia (Travel Reference Map) (Travel Reference Map)

  
  
   

• Wall Maps Zambia Provincial

  Macmillan

  
  
   

• Zambia Traveller's Map (Macmillan Traveller's Map)

  
  
   

• Adventuring in Southern Africa: Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho (Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides)

  A Bechky

  
  
   

• The Trouble with Africa

  Vic Guhrs

  
  
   

• Trekking in East Africa (Lonely Planet Walking Guides)

  David Else

  
  
   

• The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

  Josh Swiller

  
  
   

• Safari Dreaming: An African Safari Experience in the South Luangwa Valley, Zambia

  Paul Joynson-Hicks

  
  
   

• Guide to Zambia: See ISBN 1-898323-50-X (The Bradt Travel Guide)

  Chris McIntyre

  
  
   

• A Decade in Rhodesia

  Alice Elsie Bell

  
  
   

• Lonely Planet : Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia

  David Else

  
  
   

• North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

  Shiva Naipaul

  
  
   

• From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: The Politics of Transition

  Herbert Victor Wiseman, A.M. Taylor

  
  
   

• Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

  Alexandra Fuller

  
  Thomas Wolfe's trusted axiom about not being able to go home again gets a compelling spin through the African veldt in Alexandra Fuller's Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. Fuller (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood) journeys through modern Zambia, to battlefields in Zimbabwe and Mozambique with the scarred veteran of the Rhodesian Wars she identifies only as "K". Intrigued by the mysterious neighbour of her parent's Zambian fish farm and further enticed by her father's warning that "curiosity scribbled the cat" ("scribbling" is Afrikaans slang for "killing"), Fuller embarks on a journey that covers as much cratered psychic landscape as it does African bush country. Though she and "K" are both African by family roots rather than blood, she quickly discovers that 30 years of civil war have scarred them--and the indigenous peoples they encounter--in markedly different ways. "K" is a figure of monumental tragedy, a decent man torn by war-fuelled rage, a failed marriage and painful memories of an only son lost to tropical disease. His adopted Christianity offers him only partial absolution, and Fuller details his gut-wrenching confessions of quarter-century old atrocities with compassion and rare insight. Her prose liberally salted with a rich, melange of Afrikaans and local Shona slang, Fuller nonetheless struggles with a narrative whose turns are often unexpected, yet driven by humanity. There's a clear sense that the author's fitful journey into the past with "K" has opened as many wounds as it has healed, and spawned more questions than it has answered. It's that discomfort and frustration that often reinforces the honesty of her prose--and reinforces Thomas Wolfe's adage yet again. --Jerry McCulley, Amazon.com