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Country & Travel
Guides
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
Lonely Planet West
Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
From cosmopolitan Dakar to
remote Timbuktu, this thoroughly revised guide to West Africa covers
destinations on and off the tourist trail, accommodation, restaurant, and
transporation options for every range of budget, cultural information, and
more. Includes a useful language section with glossaries of frequently-used
terms and a 32-page color section. 160 maps
Insight Guides the Gambia and Senegal
(amazon.co.uk)- Europe
Insight Guides
Lonely Planet the Gambia & Senegal
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by David Else
Excellent
and up-to-date Senegal/Gambia guidebook! Highly recommended! We just returned
from our fourth trip to Senegal, and we found the Lonely Planet guidebook to be
highly accurate and easily usable. It is well written and includes much helpful
cultural information in addition to all the necessary facts. Don't leave for
Senegal without it!!!! (a reader from Alaska USA , April 3, 1999
)
Senegal Country Study Guide
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
Gambia & Senegal - Lonely Planet
(Maps Worldwide)
The Gambia & Senegal are an ideal
gateway to the diversity and cultural richness of West Africa. Discover the
fringes of the Sahara, immerse yourself in Banjul's vibrant Albert market, or
soak up the faded elegance of St-Louis' imperial past. This new guide is an
indispensable companion crammed full of practical travel tips. 28 detailed
maps, including colour regional map.
West
Africa - Lonely Planet
(Maps Worldwide)
Colour photographs, 160 maps 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. Now revised, it 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.
Maps & Atlases
Senegal - Folded Map,
(Maps Worldwide)
Institut Geographique National (IGN) -
Countries and Cities of the World
Senegal
including Gambia - Folded Map
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by ITMB Publishing Ltd
specialise in areas that are interesting, exotic and off the beaten track
Wildlife & Flora
A Field Guide to Birds of the Gambia and Senegal
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Clive Barlow, Tim Wacher,
Tony Disley (Illustrator)
This comprehensive book is the first field guide
to the birds of The Gambia and Senegal, an area of West Africa popular with
birders for its many tropical African birds. The guide provides full accounts
of over 600 bird species and depicts nearly all of these in 48 beautiful color
plates. For each species, the authors describe identifying features,
similarities with other species, behavior, vocalizations, status, distribution,
and breeding habits. .
Guide to Senegal Parrot
and Its Family
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Mattie Sue Athan, Dianalee
Deter, Susan Green (Photographer)
Relatively quiet, friendly and
acrobatic, the bright green and yellow domestic African Senegal parrot must be
socialized early and their domesticated behavior patterns regularly maintained
to keep them tame. This book offers valuable clues to the Senegal's sensitive
temperament and other specialized needs, along with information about the
bird's behavior, dietary needs, and appropriate indoor environment. Photos
throughout.
Complete Guide to Senegal Parrots
(amazon.com) - USA
by Pamela Hutchinson
This
beautifully produced all colour book offers the reader a complete guide to the
'Poicephalus Genus' from Senegal to Niam-Niam.You'll find out how to choose a
Senegal,how to raise one and make it your personal buddy,as well as how to keep
it healthy. Parrot enthusiast?" The Complete Guide To Senegal Parrots" is a
must!
History, Politics & Economics
Historical Dictionary of Senegal (African Historical
Dictionaries, No 65)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Andrew Francis Clark, Lucie
Colvin Phillips
provides information on the history, economics, politics,
and society of the African country where Islamic and coastal elements merge.
(Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or)
Arts and Politics in Senegal 1960-1996
(amazon.com) - USA
by Tracy David Snipe
The
purpose of this work is to analyze the dynamic interplay between politics and
the arts in the formative stages of Senegal's cultural and political
development under the leadership of President Leopold Sedar Senghor and
President Abdou Diouf.
Country Review, Senegal
1999/2000
(amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
up-to-date sourcesfor political and economic information
The Butchers' Grand Ball : Meditations on Goree Island in
Photographs and Carefully Chosen Words
(amazon.com) - USA
by Kiarri T. Cheatwood
realistic look at the African slave trade The Butcher's Grand Ball provides
that part of history which the public tends to ignore. It is the actual and raw
account of those incidences that occurred during the African Slave Trade. It is
also that part of history that connects the African-American with the African.
A definite eye opener for those of interest in history and even archaeology.
(a reader from North dakota , April 20, 1999)
Senegambia : Land of the Lion (The Kingdoms of
Africa)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Philip Koslow
An in-depth
study of the history of the upper coastal region of West Africa, discussing
interaction between the Wolof, Serer, and Mende peoples and the European
traders, as well as Freetown, a community of freed slaves in nineteenth-century
Sierra Leone.
A Claim to Land by the River : A
Household in Senegal 1720-1994
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Adrian Adams, Jaabe So
Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in
Senegal, 1930-1985 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Catherine Boone
Catherine Boone examines the ways in which the exercise of state power has
inhibited economic growth, focusing on the case of Senegal. She traces changes
in the political economy of Senegal from the heyday of colonial merchant
capital in the 1930s to the decay of the neocolonial order in the 1980s, and
reveals that old trading monopolies, commercial hierarchies, and patterns of
wealth accumulation were preserved at the cost of reforms that would have
stimulated economic growth.
West African
Slavery and Atlantic Commerce : The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860 (African
Studies, No 77)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by James F. Searing
Shrines of the Slave Trade : Diola Religion and Society
in Precolonial Senegambia
(amazon.co.uk)- Europe (amazon.com) - USA
by Robert Martin Baum, Robert M.
Baum
In this work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and
social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the
precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows
that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and
priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He
demonstrates how this close involvement with the traders significantly changed
Diola religious life.
Population Dynamics of
Senegal (Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Gilles Pison (Editor),
National Research Council, Barney Cohen (Editor), Karen A. Foote (Editor)
People & Culture
Senegal (Cultures of the World Series)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Elizabeth L. Berg
Wolof (Heritage Library of African Peoples West Africa)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Tijan M. Sallah
Lonely Planet Mali Blues : Traveling to an African Beat
(Lonely Planet Journeys) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Joris Lieve, Lieve Joris, Sam
Garrett (Translator)
Belgian-born writer Lieve Joris travels to the West
African countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali--a region that to many
Westerners seems obscure, even destitute and impoverished. Joris captures the
strong will of West Africans, their enduring traditions and heritage, their
thumping music, and their unmatched ability to carry on despite hardship and
political turmoil.
Africa Notebook
(amazon.com) - USA
by C.W. Gusewell
C.W.
Gusewelle's second collection of essays, lets you experience the sights and
sounds of Senegal. He writes of the images of Africa as she reveals her
secrets. He presents through the limited window of immediate experience, an
intimate sense of Africans and life in a small corner of that vast and
wonderful and suffering part of the world.
Mandingo : The Ethnography of a West African Holy Land
(amazon.com) - USA
by Matt Schaffer, Christine Cooper
The book accomplishes what a good ethnography should--the descrip- tion
and interpretation of the significant institutions of contemporary Mandinka
life, including social organization, sex roles, marriage, kinship, leadership
and authority, warfare, a slave caste system, religion, subsistence, and
environment. Where possible, these institutions are viewed in the context of
social history and in light of the advent and impact of Islam.
Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal : Disciples
and Citizens in Fatick (African Studies, No 80)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Leonardo A. Villalon
The
Sufi Muslim orders are the most significant institutions in Senegales society.
While Islamic political groups are often accused of destabilising African
states, Leonardo Villalon argues that these brotherhoods have played a crucial
part in making Senegal one of the most stable and democratic of African
countries
Senegal Behind Glass : Images of
Religious and Daily Life
(amazon.com) - USA
by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, Anne Marie
Ndlaye, Anne-Marie Bouttiaux-Ndiaye
Senegal Behind Glass is the first
comprehensive survey of Senegalese reverse-glass painting ever to appear, and
it includes some of the earliest surviving examples as well as providing a rich
selection of works by the best recent artists, among them Gora Mbengue, Babacar
Lo, Mor Gueye, Ibrahima Sall and Alexis Ngom
Prayer, Power, and Production : The Jola of Casamance, Senegal
(Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, No. 82)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Olga F. Linares
Language
Wolof-English
Dictionary and Phrasebook
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
As there is no written form of
the language, words and phrases are presented in a special anglicised form that
allows the user to easily speak and understand the language. A concise guide to
grammar and pronunciation is also included. Primarily based on the Gambian
dialect of the language, the book is an invaluable tool wherever Wolof is
spoken.
The Traveler's Ultimate Guide To Speaking
and Translating French and English
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
If you want to learn quick,
concise, French phrases, then this is the book guide for you! This French
Dictionary Type Book has all the phrases you will ever need while traveling.
Whether you're going on a vacation, or just living in an area of the country
with a high French speaking population, this little 'MiniBook' can help you to
understand some things you couldn't before and actually have small
conversations with other French-speakers.
Other Books & Novels
Senegal (Enchantment of the World)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Margaret Beaton .
Senegal in Pictures (Visual Geography Series)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Eugene Senegal in Pictures
Gordon (Editor), Lerner Editors, Lerner publ, Thomas Otoole, Lerner Publicat
Department Of Geography
Introduces the land, history, government, natural
resources, culture, and people of the Republic of Senegal, situated on the
westernmost bulge of the African continent.
Mama Casset : Les Precurseurs De LA Photographie Au Senegal, 1950
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk)- Europe
by Mama Casset
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