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Country & Travel
Guides
Maps & Atlases
Wildlife & Flora
History,
Politics & Economics
People & Culture
Country & Travel Guides
Rwanda, 3rd: The Bradt Travel Guide- by Philip Briggs
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
As a guide to getting around
Rwanda and seeing the beauty as well as the sorrow, the hope as well as the
history, this is an important and timely book. It is packed with essential
information for the traveller
Visiting
Rwanda (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Dervla Murphy
Part travel
narrative, part study of genocide and its aftermath, part polemic against the
"international community", this volume presents the writings of Dervla Murphy
as she travelled through Rwanda in 1997
Maps &
Atlases
Rwanda/Burundi
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by ITMB Publishing Ltd
Subtitle International Travel Maps
specialise in areas that are
interesting, exotic and off the beaten track.
Tanzania, Rwanda & Burundi Map (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Harms Verlag
A
complete country map of Tanzania together with neighbouring Rwanda and Burundi.
A very clear map. Includes city maps of Dar es Salaam and Arusha.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Nelles Guides & Maps
Featuring a new-style cover and easy-fold system, this map of Tanzania,
Rwanda and Burundi has been revised with the help of local correspondents. It
is marked with tourist attractions and public transport systems, and includes
inset maps of major cities. Information is also provided on hotels.
Wildlife & Flora
The Year of the Gorilla (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by George B. Schaller
A
sensitive and articulate observer, [Schaller] is at his best when he is
describing the forest itself . . . . This is an exciting book. Although
Schaller feels that this is 'not an adventure book,' few readers will be able
to agree."- (-Irven DeVore, Science)
Light Shining Through the Mist : A Photobiography of Dian
Fossey (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
gorgeous color photographs will be
the main draw to this biography of the controversial primatologist, but
Matthews's text also does a fine job of tracing the life of a troubled woman
who found a career and turned it into a mission. Fossey's work with her beloved
mountain gorillas is well documented in both text and pictures; the large,
spacious format of the book serves both well. (Copyright © 1999 The
Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved. )
History, Politics & Economics
Country Review, Rwanda 1999/2000 (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
Rwanda : Fierce Clashes in Central Africa (Children in
Crisis) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by John Isaac, Keith Elliot
Greenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Bruce Glassman (Editor)
a context for the
tragic story of the children of Rwanda, who have been caught in the middle of a
modern-day holocaust: the civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes in their
country. Readers see the story through the eyes of Isaac, a United Nations
photographer who was sent to document the human cost of the fighting that
forced hundreds of thousands of Rwandans to flee to refugee camps in Zaire and
Tanzania and left three-eighths of the Rwandan population dead.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed
With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Philip Gourevitch
Wole
Soyinka A grim book this, and a burden on world conscience. It closes the
habitual avenue of escape--anonymity--for collective atrocities. The New
York Times Book Review)
Season of Blood : A
Rwandan Journey (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Fergal Keane
A journalist
who covered the one-hundred-day Rwandan war in 1994 provides a disturbing
account that suggests that a power-hungry group, using hate radio and local
political leaders as brainwashers, purposefully incited thousands of Hutus to
kill minority Tutsis and more moderate Hutus.
The Rwanda Crisis : History of a Genocide (amazon.com) - USA
by Gerard Prunier
Although it
occurred only in 1994, the civil war in the tiny central African nation of
Rwanda has already slipped from memory. In that country, writes Belgian
historian Gérard Prunier, Tutsi and Hutu fell to slaughtering each other
at the end of a long history of Belgian, German, and French colonialism that
deliberately played on ethnic tensions.
Kill
Thy Neighbor : One Man's Incredible Story of Loss and Deliverance in
Rwanda (amazon.com) - USA
by Corrine Vanderweff, Corrine
Vanderwerff, Kenneth R. Wade (Editor
The story of the Rwandan genocide of
1994 is told through the experiences of an ordinary man. We can empathize with
his fear, desperation and utter loneliness. And we can join him in hoping for a
beter future.
Rwanda and Genocide in the
Twentieth Century (amazon.com) - USA
by Alain Destexhe, Alison Marschner
(Translator), William Shawcross
Aiding Violence
: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Peter Uvin
This book is
for all people interested in development: practitioners, students, teachers,
journalists, etc. It is a case study of Rwanda, but its relevance and
conclusions go far beyond the specifics of thta one country: people who lived
and worked elsewhere (including the US) have assured me it felt extremely close
to their own experiences. The book is written in an accessible style: it
contains little theory and jargon.
Colour of
Darkness : Rwanda (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Bilinda
Crisis in Rwanda (New Perspectives) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Charles Freeman
The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda
(amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
Speak Rwanda (amazon.com) - USA
by Julian R. Pierce, George Witte
(Editor)
. It is the story of ten people - Hutu and Tutsi, civilians and
soldiers, mothers, nurses, politicians, herdsmen, and orphaned children - as
they attempt to survive one of the most violent and deeply disturbing massacres
since the Second World War.
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