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Travel Guides
History & Politics
People &
Culture
Maps & Atlases
Other Books & Novels
Travel Guides
Adventuring in Southern Africa : Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, South
Africa, Malawi, Lesotho, and Swaziland (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
- by Allen Bechky
well
researched book and in-depth book that reviews all the parks, animals, flora,
and areas of Southern Africa containing all the "need to know" information.
Globetrotter Travel Guide to
Zimbabwe (Maps Worldwide)
Published by New Holland Publishers (U
Series Globetrotter Travel Guides
This is a guide for the first-time
visitor with limited time, who wants to experience the best Zimbabwe has to
offer. The guide recommends the sights worth seeing and places of interest to
visit, and advises on where to stay, eat and shop, excursions to take, and the
best way to travel around.
Travel Guide
Zimbabwe (amazon.com) -_USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Paul Tingay, Peter Joyce
(Editor
The Rough Guide to Zimbabwe (July 2000)
(amazon.com) -_USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Barbara McCrea, Tony
Pinchuck
This revised guide to Zimbabwe covers the game reserves, national
parks and wilderness areas. There is coverage of the rock art, literature,
history and music, and a colour wildlife supplement. In Botswana, only the
Okavanga Delta and Chobe National Park are covered.
Handy Guide Victoria Falls (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
Published by Struik Publishers
(Pty) Ltd Series Agfa Handy Guide Paperback
practical guide highlights what
Victoria Falls and the Upper Zambezi Valley region have to offer the visitor.
It describes the major tourist venues and their principal attractions, and
offers suggestions on where to stay, what to see and do, where to eat and where
to shop.
Zimbabwe and Botswana
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by Rough Guides Series The
Rough Guide Paperback
This guide includes coverage of Victoria Falls - the
adventure and safari capital of Southern Africa - and Okavango Swamp. There are
details on travelling independently and on organized tours, covering every
angle from hotels and restaurants to health and safety. The wildlife guide
contains information on each species, and accounts of the region's ancient
sights, ranging from the rock art of the Tsodilo Hills to the stone palaces of
Great Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by Lonely Planet
Publications Series Country/Regional Guides
32 pages colour safari guide
2006 Country Profile and Guide to Zimbabwe –
National Travel Guidebook and Handbook – USAID Reports, Water Use, Law,
Energy, AGOA (amazon.com) - USA
Electronic Book - Two CD-ROM Set by
U.S. Government (
an amazing collection of the finest federal documents
and resources about Zimbabwe, providing encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of
the country.
Maps & Atlases
Globetrotter Travel Map of Zimbabwe (Maps Worldwide)
Published by New Holland Publishers (U
Series Globetrotter Travel Maps Sheet map,
This travel map caters
specifically for the needs of tourists and visitors. In addition to the main
map of Zimbabwe, which highlights scenic routes, areas of special interest to
visitors, including Great Zimbabwe National Monumentand Hwange National Park,
are shown in greater detail. The town and city plans of the major centres
pinpoint key buildings and places of interest as well as where to stay.
Distance and climate charts enble travellers to plan their visirs, while
photographs aim to capture the atmosphere of the country.
Travel Atlas Zimbabwe (amazon.com) - USA
by Paul Tingay, Peter Joyce
(Editor
Zimbabwe (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Map Studio Series
Eazimaps Sheet map 1997
Designed with the tourist in mind, it includes
street plans of Harare and Bulawayo. Other features include: maps of the
National Parks at Nyanga, M'Tarzi Falls, and Matobo; Mutirikwi Recreational
Park; the Great Zimbabwe Monument; hotels; tarred routes, minor roads and
tracks; distances; cities, towns and villages; and places of interest.
Zimbabwe 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 - published for the English speaking traveller. Light,
practical and should be invaluable for the backpacker, traveller or tourist
Zimbabwe 1:1.1,000,000 (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Freytag & Berndt Maps
Series International Road Maps Sheet 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.
History & Politics
Country Review, Zimbabwe 1999/2000 (amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
concise,
up-to-date sources for political and economic information
Great Zimbabwe (African Civilizations)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Mark Bessire
Zimbabwe: the Rise to Nationhood (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Jacob W. Chikuhwa
Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera
(amazon.com) - USA
by A. J. Chennells (Editor), Flora
Veit-Wild (Editor)
The Moral Economy of the
State : Conservation, Community Development, and State Making in Zimbabwe
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK by William Andrew Munro
Sir Garfield Todd and the Making of
Zimbabwe (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Ruth Weiss
Sir Garfield
Todd, A Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, was a key figure in the history of
Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. A compassionate New Zealander with a deep commitment to
his adoptive country, Todd was determined to improve the conditions for the
black population both economically and socially, and to prepare them for
greater political participation
The White
Tribe (amazon.com) - USA
by Robin Moore
People & Culture
Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the
Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Terence Ranger
Occupied by
humanity for some 40,000 years, the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe have become the
scene of symbolic, ideological and armed conflict over the last hundred years.
Voices from the Rocks is about landscape, religion, conservation, political
symbolism, and war in the Matopos Hills - not simply the geography of the
National Park there, which is seen by most visitors as a "wild place." This
book reinstates culture and history into nature.
Shona (Heritage Library of African Peoples. Southern
Africa) (amazon.com) - USA
by Gary Van Wyk, Robert Johnson
The Soul of Mbira : Music and Traditions of
the Shona People of Zimbabwe (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Paul F. Berliner
Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Pamela Reynolds
) focuses
on children as clients of healers and as healers in training among the Zezuru,
examining the use of medicinal plants, dreams, and ritual in healing practices,
and traditional Zezuru concepts of illness, trauma, and evil. She explains the
role of healers and healing during the War of Liberation in Zimbabwe, and
documents the effects of the war on children. Numerous appendices offer
statistics, and personal and press accounts of the war. (Annotation c.
by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.)
The
Hunter's Vision : The Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe (amazon.com) - USA
by Peter Garlake
Other Books & Novels
Songs to an African Sunset : A Zimbabwean Story (Lonely
Planet Journeys) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Sekai Nzenza, Sekai
Nzenza-Shand
An unforgettable picture of contemporary Zimbabwe seen from
the perspective of an African woman returning to her country after many years
of living in the West. Sekai Nzenza-Shand captures the texture of life in an
African village--mourning rituals, village courts, polygamy, traditional
beliefs about fertility, ancestral spirits and witchcraft. She also offers a
moving account of the impact of AIDS on her family, deforestation, drought, and
the breakdown of traditional structures.
Tonderai : Studying Abroad in Zimbabwe (amazon.com) - USA
by Perrin Liana Elking, Elkind
Perrin
"Tonderai" is the Shona name that was given to Perrin.
Appropriately, it means "Remember." Tonderai conveys a vivid sense of Zimbabwe
- the land and its indigenous people; readers feel they are literally looking
over Perrin's shoulder. Embedded in the book is a concept of education as an
active process of doing, of experiencing life with all the senses, and learning
through interaction with others. (A reader from Orinda, California ,
September 23, 1998)
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