Gabon is one of the world's most pristine ecotourism destinationa. Its dense forests, rolling savannahs and unspoiled coastlines are home to mammals ranging from whale to warthog.
The beach south of Mayumba boasts the highest density of leatherback turtle nests in Africa, and over 700 species of birds have been recorden in the country. Wildlife aside, there are majestic canyons and cascading waterfalls, Iron Age rock engravings, and forest-based communities whose way of life offers an invaluable insight into Gabon's timeless traditions.

Fully updated for theis second edition, Bradt's Gabon remains the only English-language guide to 'Africa's last Eden'.

• Track troupes of Mandrill in Parc National de la Lopé
• Attend an all-nighr Bwiti ceremony - an ancient ritual celebrated from capital to countryside
• Drift between Lambaréné's isolated river islands bt piroque
• Soak up the atmosphere in Libreville, Gabon's laidback capital city
• Search for 'surfing hippos' along the beaches and lagoons of Parc National de Loango

This new field guide uses all of the plates from Birds of Western Africa, with a concise, authoritative text on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference covering all 1285 species found in the region.
The book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species, conveniently placed on interleaved pages within the colour plates. A number of new images have been painted for this new field guide and several of the plates have been replaced.
This is the first comprehensive field guide to cover the birds of this exciting region, and will enable birders to identify any species found in any of the countries covered.
Birds of Western Africa (Helm, 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all species of this region, which comprises all countries from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic and south to Congo.

In this updated and revised edition of field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa authors Chris and Tilde Stuart concentrate on the more visible and easily distinguished larger mammals species, plus some of the more frequently seen smaller mammals.
In all, over 400 colour photographs, combined with concise, pertinent information highlighting the diagnostic features of each species, provide a comprehensive source of data on each mammal. The latest information has been incorporated and the distribution maps have been revised to reflect the most up-to-date habitat and distribution patterns for each species.
A new feature is the inclusion of the mammals' skulls, grouped together at the back of the book. To aid the reader, colour coding and symbols indicating the habitat and activity period serve as a quick reference to the various mammal groups.

In dit boek staan meer dan 300 symbolen van Afrikaanse volken en stammen.
In Afrika bestaat nog steeds een expressieve symboliek die zichtbaar is in de wijdverbreide voorouderverering, in de kunst en in het dagelijks leven. Het palet reikt van cultusvoorwerpen en maskers tot het symbolenschrift van de Ashanti, van betekenisvolle gebruiksvoorwerpen via sieraden en statussymbolen tot de grotschilderingen in de eens zo vruchtbare Sahara.

Heike Owusu had al vroeg een spiritueel wereldbeeld, dat tot onbegrip in haar familie en haar omgeving leidde. Toen haar leven door een ernstige ziekte werd bedreigd, overwon ze deze met autogene training en een methode voor zelfgenezing die ze zelf ontwikkelde.
Door het huwlijk met haar Ghanese man raakte ze nog meer dan voorheen geinteresseerd in de oude kennis van natuurvolken en hun mythologie. Dat alles sprak haar artistieke talenten aan en zodoende geeft ze nu haar kennis op verschillende manieren door: in de vorm van kosmische schilderijen, illustraties en boeken.

Written by Paul du Chaillu, the explorer who was the first outsider to confirm the existence of the Pygmy people of central Africa and of the gorilla-both of which had only been rumoured at before-this book is a dramatic and continually enthralling account of a nearly seven-year long exploration of West and Central Africa in the 1860s.
Commissioned by the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, the author was sent to West Africa and the equator region on that continent in order to establish the nature of the population and the wildlife, which was little known before that time. During his explorations, he became the first outsider to see and capture gorillas, the existence of which was only known from a passing reference in a work by Hanno the Navigator of Carthage dating from the 5th century BC.
In addition, Du Chaillu thoroughly documented the native peoples of the regions he explored, recording their customs, dress, habits, technology, and culture. In this manner he also came upon the Pygmy people of central Africa and was the first to document their existence and announce it to the outside world.
Du Chaillu’s work remains a pioneering effort in exploratory anthropology and has lost none of its vitality or interest over the years. It remains a primary resource for anyone seeking an in-depth insight into pre-colonial and pre-urban West and Central Africa.

One of the most famous early white explorers of central West Africa, the American Paul du Chaillu won fame for confirming the existence of the gorilla-and for his accurate and breathtaking descriptions of the life, customs and behavior of Africans in the pre-colonial era. This book was written after the author's last expedition into the African interior when Du Chaillu set out with the intention of reaching the Nile River. After over a year of travel, the expedition failed and he was forced back after being wounded by a poison arrow during an attack by a hostile interior tribe.
The high adventure of Du Chaillu's expedition-and his frank descriptions of his encounters with the natives-are just part of what makes this work a compelling read. It also contains vivid and uncensored descriptions of native African culture, cannibalism, tribal warfare, witchdoctors, superstition, and technology. His astute observations were used by Oxford University professor John R. Baker in a section on African cognitive ability in his classic work Race.
His description of African slavery in particular, is highly relevant, as it shows that the biggest traders in slaves were the Africans themselves, despite all efforts by the British Royal Navy to halt the practice.

"Happily the Slave Trade will never flourish as it did in times past, and it may be said now to be almost entirely done away with. In the country of my late exploiration, the only people who continue the traffic in slaves are negro agents, from the two Portuguese islands St. Thomas an Prince's, who purchase people for their masters, who are also negroes. They cross to and from the mainland in small canoes, and thus avoid the cruisers."

This new edition has been completely reset and contains all 23 illustrations and maps which accompanied the original work.

Gabon kreeg bezoek van Albert Schweitzer en van de gorilla-jager Paul du Chaillu, van Georges Simenon die er een roman situeerde en van Mary Kingsley die zich ook diep in het oerwoud als een Victoriaanse dame kleede, van graaf Brazza die met Stanley rivaliseerde en van Lastours die er aan de malaria doodging, van Pieter van den Broecke die er olifantenvlees at tot hij er ‘qualijck van wierdt’, van witte paters die de maskers van de inboorlingen verbranden en van de handelaren die er onder het tamtamgeroffel der kannibalen de strijd met de eenzaamheid aanbonden. Met die vroegere avonturiers als gids trekt Jan Brokken in "De regenvogel" door het oerwoud van Gabon in Equatoriaal Afrika. Hij beschrijft hun levens met evenveel liefde en oog voor detail als de vertwijfeling van de huidige generatie Gabonezen, de erfgenamen van een door de blanken totaal ontwrichte cultuur.

Afrika, de jaren dertig. Na een bootreis van drie weken komt de jonge Joseph Timar aan wal in Libreville, Gabon, om er zijn fortuin te zoeken. De koloniale werkelijkheid wekt hem ruw uit zijn exotische dromen. Voordat hij beseft wat hem overkomt, raakt Timar verwikkeld in een kluwen van seks en drank, geweld en corruptie, ziekte, verloedering en verderf. Alles lijkt zijn ondergang te moeten bewerken: de verlokkingen van de rijpe Adèle, de moord op een bediende, de ontginning van een stuk regenwoud.

Manestreek is een vroeg, somber hoogtepunt in het oeuvre van George Simenon, nu voor het eerst in het Nederlands vertaald.