Africa Biography

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2003
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

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    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....

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    • A Memoir of Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....

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    • The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
    • By: Nelson Mandela
    • Narrated by: Danny Glover
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 09-02-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time....

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    • By: Dr Andrew Browning
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Stanford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Including a preface by HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne. The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time....

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    • Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of a man who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future....

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    • By: Isak Dinesen
    • Narrated by: Julie Harris
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-1999
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the...

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    • First Source to Sea Descent of the Congo River
    • By: Phil Harwood
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Canoeing the Congo narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo....

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    • By: Gerald Durrell
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A Zoo in My Luggage is the account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles exotic animals....

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    • An American Company's Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims
    • By: Richard D. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The harrowing, true-life rescue of Nigerian burn victims and the race against time and distance....

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    • From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War
    • By: Andrew Milburn
    • Narrated by: Andrew Milburn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander...

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    • By: Mike Hoare
    • Narrated by: Mike Hoare
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo....

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    • Stories of Life and Rugby
    • By: Rassie Erasmus, David O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Eben Genis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The long-awaited memoir from the maverick coach of the South African rugby team. In Rassie: Stories of Life and Rugby, Rassie Erasmus dives into the intense ups and downs of his incredible life and career....

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    • Scrapes and Escapes in the African Bush
    • By: Lloyd Camp
    • Narrated by: Lloyd Camp
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Lloyd Camp takes you on an evocative journey through some of the wildest places in Africa as he relives colorful vignettes from his adventurous childhood and long career as a safari guide....

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    • By: Maya Angelou
    • Narrated by: Maya Angelou
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-12-2005
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In the fourth volume of her autobiography, The Heart of a Woman, Angelou's turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City....

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