The seventh edition of the most thorough, accurate and frequently updated guidebook to Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia.
The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations.
This book, first published in 1978, provides an account of the history of Zanzibar from those early days of trade up to independence and the Revolution that removed the Arab ruling class in 1964.
Zanzibar -- the legendary "Spice Islands" in the Indian Ocean -- is rapidly becoming more accessible, attracting an increasing number of tourists. David Else's definitive guide to the islands is...
As the only American in Zanzibar throughout the revolution, Petterson reports with the inside authority of a highly placed diplomatic observer, illuminating how the current troubles in Zanzibar are rooted in the Cold War and the revolution ...
E. B Martin, Zanzibar: Tradition and Revolution, 43, and Cameron and Dodd, Society, Schools and Progress in Tanzania, 55. Just before the turn of the century, the German colonial authority established three government ...
This work explores themes of capitalism, colonialism, plantation landscapes, African Diaspora communities, gender and sexuality, locally produced and imported goods in historic contexts, and Islamic historical archaeology.
Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms. Should it be fossilized for the tourists? Or should it grow for the benefit of the inhabitants?...
The Rough Guide to Zanzibar is the essential handbook to Unguja (Zanzibar) and Pemba, Africa's legendary Spice Islands, featuring: Detailed accounts of every attraction, from the labyrinthine Stone Town to ruined Omani palaces and idyllic ...
This book further investigates how movements of Zanzibaris within the emerging and contending social discourses are reconstituting meanings for conceptualizing ustaarabu to define their roots in Zanzibar.
Lizzie's twenty-third birthday was approaching and I announced we had tickets for the - sleeper-train journey south through Tanzania. Once we got to Zambia we would sail up Lake Tanganyika by steamer, a decommissioned imperial German ...