Filter By Subjects
Admirals Fiction Africa, Southern Fiction Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction British Africa Fiction British Africa, Southern Fiction British South Africa Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction Ship physicians Fiction South Africa Fiction Zimbabwe FictionFilter By Subjects
Admirals Fiction Africa, Southern Fiction Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction British Africa Fiction British Africa, Southern Fiction British South Africa Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction Ship physicians Fiction South Africa Fiction Zimbabwe FictionKipling, Rudyard
Contents: The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling - King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard - With Clive in India / G.A. Henty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prion 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Summary: Born to noble parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the laws of the jungle to survive. He quickly matches the beasts around him in strength and agility, yet understands that he is different from them. In combining higher intelligence with his physical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BURGreene, Graham
Summary: An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Maxwell, Robin
Summary: Reimagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical program as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXFielding, Helen
Summary: Twenty-something Rosie Richardson leaves her hotshot boyfriend the glitzy life of London's celebrity scene for a job running a refugee camp in the African Jungle. After a struggle, Rosie learns that the only way to bring in the food is to call on the celebrity clout of the people she left behind.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FIESabatini, Rafael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wildside Press 1924
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SABLaurens, Stephanie
Summary: Marrying the seemingly delicate Lady Edwina Delbraith, Declan Frobisher discovers that his new bride is unconventional and strong-willed after she accompanies him on a secret mission that leads them to unexpected enemies-- and love. Facing unforeseen perils and unexpected enemies while battling to expose a dastardly scheme involving kidnapped British citizens in West Africa, Declan and Edwina...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUSmith, Wilbur A
Summary: With his headstrong daughter Saffron pursuing her education in London at Oxford, Leon Courtney navigates the politics of colonial Kenya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIMcVeigh, Jennifer.
Summary: South Africa, 1880. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, leading her into the dark heart of the diamond mines. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCVO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Presents the unfinished novel of what would have been O'Brian's twenty-first Aubrey-Maturin seafaing tale, following Jack Aubrey in his new post, rear admiral of the Blue Squadron.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRLessing, Doris May
Summary: Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLessing, Doris May
Summary: Feeling trapped and alienated by her husband, Martha Quest must choose between the security of marriage and the sacrifices of independence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLessing, Doris May
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 1993