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Travel Books & Maps

The Rough Guide to West Africa 5 - 2008- (Paperback) Author Richard Trillo
(amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
covering the 15 visitable countries from Mauritania to Cameroon in fifty percent more detail than its only competitor. Each chapter of the Rough Guide includes thoroughly researched hotel and restaurant listings, sections on everything from food and language to media and sport, and thoughtful background on the environment, culture, history, politics and music

West Africa   (Maps Worldwide)
Paperback, - Lonely Planet Publications - Country/Regional Guides
This guide covers travel in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. Features an expanded 32-page section on the region's culture and birdlife. Listings of places to stay and eat are included for all budgets and there is comprehensive coverage of contemporary and traditional music. Language sections and a glossary are also included.

Mauritania Travel Map   (Maps Worldwide)
Institut Geographique National (IGN)
A very general map of Mauritania.


Morocco Handbook : With Mauritania   (amazon.com) - USA
by Anne McLachlan, Keith McLachlan (Contributor)




History & Politics

Country Review, Mauritania 1998/1999   (amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
up-to-date source for political and economic information

Silent Terror : A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery  (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Samuel Cotton
A moving, well-documented account of slavery in the '90s If you're sceptical about the notion that old-fashioned chattel slavery still exists, read this book. Cotton presents well-documented evidence that slavery exists in Mauritania, and yet relates this evidence in a tone that is personal and moving.  (A reader from USA , February 17, 1999)


People & Culture

The Children of Mauritania : Days in the Desert and by the River Shore (The World's Children)   (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Lauren Goodsmith
Follows the lives of two children from two of Mauritania's cultural groups: a Moorish girl and a Halpoular boy.


Other Books & Novels

Stories of Women   (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Shanta Rao, Selim Nassib, Charles-Henri Favrod

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