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Wildlife and Flora
History &
Politics
People & Culture
Other Books & Novels
Travel Guides
Uganda
Handbook - Edition 2002 (Maps Worldwide) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
Published by Footprint Handbooks
This guide to Uganda offers comprehensive information enabling the
traveller to get off the standard trail and experience so much more of the
country. The guide provides detailed information on national parks and game
reserves along with up-to-date listings on the practicalities of travel.
Uganda, 4th: The Bradt Travel Guide
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
This fourth edition of the Bradt
guide to Uganda has been updated and considerably expanded to include not just
every aspect of the country's tourist infrastructure, but also far more
detailed coverage of the cultural and environmental issues that are Uganda's
greatest asset.
Guide to Uganda
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by BRADT Publications
Series Country Guides
Bradt guides are for those who wish not merely to
see, but to understand - colour illustrated
Spectrum Guide to Uganda (Serial) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Camerapix (Compiler)
With
more than 200 scintillating full-color photos, "Spectrum Guide to Uganda" is an
in-depth guide to this land of abundant wildlife, flowers and plants as well as
cascading waterfalls and rushing rivers such as the Nile.
Uganda, 3rd Edition (amazon.com) - USA
by Philip Briggs
East Africa Handbook : With Kenya, Tanzania,
Uganda and Ethiopia (5th Ed) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Michael Hodd
Maps & Atlases
Uganda
International Travel Maps (Maps Worldwide)
Published by ITMB Publishing Ltd
Series Africa Sheet map
specialise in areas that are interesting, exotic
and off the beaten track - light, practical and should be invaluable for the
backpacker, traveller or tourist.
Uganda Nelles
Map
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Over 44 full-color street maps
for Cairo, with clear indexes for streets, cultural centers, embassies, hotels
and other points of interest. Includes the principal areas of metropolitan
Cairo and Giza. This work is presented in an easy-to-use format.
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda 1:2,000,000 (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Freytag & Berndt Maps
Series International Road Maps
Map High quality road maps with place name
index. In many countries these are simply the best maps available. Scales vary
according to the size of the country. Index is in several languages.
Wildlife & Flora
The Chimpanzees of Kibale Forest : A Field Study of Ecology and Social
Structure
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
The Year of the Gorilla (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by George B. Schaller
The Impenetrable Forest (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Thor Hanson
The Impenetrable
Forest offers an unforgettable story and a rare glimpse into the world of
Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas and the human cultures that surround
them.
History & Politics
Changing Uganda : The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment
& Revolutionary Change (Eastern African Studies Series)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Michael Twaddle (Editor), Holger
B. Hansen (Editor)
The Combing of
History (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by David William Cohen
Alice Lakwena and the Spirits : War in Northern Uganda
1985-96 (Eastern African Studies) by Heike Behrend (amazon.com) - USA
Country
Review, Uganda 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
The Elusive Promise of Ngos in Africa : Lessons
from Uganda (International Political Economy Series)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Susan Dicklitch
Dicklitch
challenges the dominant neo-liberal discourse on democratization and
development in Africa that views NGOs and civil society as the panacea for
underdevelopment and authoritarianism.
Kingship
and State : The Buganda Dynasty (African Studies, No 88) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Christopher Wrigley
In a
study of Africa's political and religious past, Christopher Wrigley uses local
traditions and comparative mythology to explore an ancient system of myth and
ritual in the precolonial kingdom of Bugunda, the nucleus of modern Uganda. The
study includes critical assessment of oral traditions, and places Buganda in a
wider regional context. The book is an elegant, wide-ranging and original study
of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
The
Last King of Scotland (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Giles Foden
In an effort at
historical verisimilitude, the author of this decidedly quirky yet absorbing
novel, Giles Foden ... has interviewed an impressive list of eyewitnesses to
the horrific events in Uganda under the ruthless Amin. (The Los
Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Walter Abish)
Obote : A Political Biography (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Kenneth Ingham, Milton Kenneth
Ingham
Peasants Against the State : The
Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Stephen G. Bunker
Service Provision Under Stress in East Africa :
The State, Ngos & People's Organizations in Kenya, Tanzania &
Uganda
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Joseph Semboja (Editor), Ole
Therkildsen (Editor), Cle Therkildsen
Uganda : Tarnished Pearl of Africa (Nations of the
Modern World. Africa)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Thomas P. Ofcansky
briefly
outlines the history of the east African country before, during, and to the end
of British rule; then focuses on the period 1962- 1994 to examine the
government and politics, society and culture, the economy, and foreign policy.
Uganda Since Independence : A Story of
Unfulfilled Hopes (amazon.com) - USA
by Phares Mutibwa
Idi Amin and Uganda (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Martin Jamison (Compiler)
People & Culture
Uganda -The Pearl of Africa (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Paul Joynson-Hicks
This is
the experience of Uganda in one location! This book gives a complete, beautiful
look at "the pearl of Africa." If you are thinking of visiting Uganda and want
to know what to expect or if you have been to the country and want to savor the
experience, this book is a must! Paul Joynson-Hicks photographs a little of
everything and the photography is beautiful. There is also a great overview of
Uganda's history. I can't say enough....get this book and it will take you to
Uganda again and again!! ( A reader from Denver, USA , October 7,
1998)
The Mountain People (amazon.com) - USA
by Colin Turnbull
Bunyoro : An African Kingdom (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by John Beattie
Kampala Women Getting by : Wellbeing in the Time
of AIDS (Eastern African Studies)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Sandra Wallman, Grace
Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
What do ordinary women in an African city do in the
face of an AIDS epidemic without the benefit of what would be considered as
basic health provision in an American or European city? This work draws a
holistic picture of the options available to local people, and provides an
understanding of problems and opportunities for health care in tropical cities.
The author aims to effectively map the social contexts of the perception and
management of AIDS.
The Lugbara of
Uganda (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by John Middleton
Uganda (Major World Nations) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Alexander Creed
Surveys the
history, topography, people, and culture of Uganda with an emphasis on its
current economy, industry, and place in the political world.
Other Books & Novels
Ecology of an African Rain Forest: Logging in
Kibale and the Conflict Between Conservation and Exploitation
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Thomas T. Struhsaker
Thomas
T. Struhsaker summarizes 20 years of research in the Kibale forest in Uganda,
one of the most important centers for the study of tropical rain forests in
Africa. Among the longest ongoing projects in rain forest ecology anywhere,
Struhsaker's differs from the great majority of logging studies by emphasizing
the fauna rather than looking only at the commercially valuable timber species.
Uganda (Enchantment of the World)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Ettagale Blauer, Jason Laure,
Ettagle Blauer
Childrens book: Ages 9-12 , discuss geography, history,
religions, culture, economy, and daily life.
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