Search Results: Sierra Leone from Books of the World

RARE! Tolworth, Surrey, England: Great Britain. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 419. First Edition. 1968. D.O.S. 419. Printed on one side. Color. 45.5" x 31" (116 x 79 cm) heavy paper sheet, folded after purchase. Condition: Very Good: Map is unmarked. Small tears, chips, and tape scars to the margins. Creases from post-purchase folding. Suitable for mounting/framing. Contents: Freetown Peninsula (Western Area) 1:50,000; Inset: Freetown (city center) 1:10,000; Inset: Banana Islands 1:50,000.

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, September 1996. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering over boards in an illustrated jacket. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Inscribed by author on half-title page, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Light shelf wear; no tears, no folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 214 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. 10.6 x 12.2 x 1.1 inches. 4.2 pounds. Heavy item: Extra charges for expedited or international shipping.
Paintings, magisterial and universal, that capture the essence of the vibrant Gullah community. In his art Jonathan Green paints the world of his childhood and an ode to a people imbued with a profound respect for the dignity and value of others--the Gullah people of the South Carolina barrier islands. His canvases, beloved for their sense of jubilation and rediscovery, evoke the meaning of community in Gullah society and display a reverence for the rich visual,… Read More

Freetown, Sierra Leone: SLADEA, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. Tanned. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean, but rubbed. Not from a library. 256 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books, August 2002. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Corners bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear at spine. Black remainder dot to bottom edge. Not from a library. Not clipped. 308 pages. In 1998, acclaimed photojournalist Teun Voeten headed to Sierra Leone for what he thought would be a standard assignment on the child soldiers there. But the cease-fire ended just as he arrived, and the clash between the military junta and the West African peace-keeping troops forced him to hide in the bush from rebels who were intent on killing him. This is a dramatic account of the conflict--and how Voeten nearly became a casualty of it. Accessible and conversational, it's a look into the dangerous diamond trade that fuels the conflict, the legacy of war practices such as forced amputations, the tragic use of child soldiers, and more.… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press / Thomas . Hardcover. 2002. First U.S. Edi. Fine. New York: St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books, August 2002. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket c lean and bright with slight edgewear at spine. Not from a library. No remai nder mark. Not clipped. 308 pages. In 1998, acclaimed photojournalist Teun Voeten headed to Sierra Leone for what he thought would be a standard assignment on the child soldiers there. But the cease-fire ended just as he arrived, and the clash between the military junta and the West African peace-keeping troops forced him to hide in the bush from rebels who were intent on killing him. This is a dramatic account of the conflict--and how Voeten nearly became a casualty of it. Accessible and conversational, it's a look into the dangerous diamond trade that fuels the conflict, the legacy of war practices such as… Read More

Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press / Globe Pequot Press, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. iv + 316 pages.

London: Penguin, 1980. Trade Paperback. Ninth printing. Very Good+. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Crease to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 250 pages. Map.A travelogue by Graham Greene, about a 350-mile, four-week walk through the interior of Liberia in 1935. It was Greene's first trip outside of Europe. He hoped to leave civilization and find Africa's "heart of darkness" in the as-yet unmapped interior of Liberia. Relying on local guides and a chain of porters, Greene and his cousin set off from Kailahun, Sierra Leone and travelled south-easterly through the jungle highlands and across the headwaters of several rivers. He crossed through a section of French Guinea, going between the Liberian towns of Zorzor and Ganta, before turning south-west and arriving at the coast at Grand Bassa from where he traveled by sea to Monrovia.

Washington, DC: Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center, April 1975. Series 1501 Air; Sheet NC 28-12; Edition 2. Map. Reprinted by NIMA April 1997. 22" x 29" sheet, folded to 11" x 7.5". NIMA Stock No. 1501XNC2812. Color. Printed on one side.

The Hague: Mouton, 1975. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Former owners' impression seal to first two pages. From the collection of anthropologist Penn Handwerker. Text block unmarked. Spine creased and faded. Shelf and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 385 pages.

New York: Sterling / Fall River Press, 1999. Hardcover. Second Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Slight shelfwear, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 397 pages.

Ebola, Lassa Fever, AIDS--few natural disasters inspire such utter panic as a rampaging virus. In this gripping, true account of the war against worldwide epidemics, two CDC doctors chronicle their decades as virus hunters, explaining how and why these viruses are so deadly and how we can prevent further devastating epidemics from breaking out.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Sarah Crichton Books, February 2007. Hardcover. First Edition (stated), later printing. Fine book in a Fine Jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. Not clipped. 229 pages. In A Long Way Gone Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: Peace Corps Sierra Leone. Unbound Photocopy. No date; circa mid-1980s. 109 pages. This is a recent photocopy, not the original publication.

London: JBK Foundation Trust. 1997. Single Issue Magazine. Fine. Rare! Contents include Sierra Leone: Another Battle Looms .

New York: Philomel, January 2000. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Black remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise book As New. Light rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. Not clipped. 183 pages. When shy fourteen-year-old Jodie accompanies her anthropologist mother to live in Sierra Leone, she befriends a local girl but encounters a cultural divide that cannot be crossed.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: People's Educational Association of Sierra Leone, 1987. Staple-bound pamphlet. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Securely bound by two rusted staples. Original price penciled to front cover. Not from a library. 47 pages. B&W photos. Stories collected at Towaama village, Bo District, Souther Province, May 1st, 1986 and later translated by Frederick Bobor James.

Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, November 1990. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 12 pages.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. As New book in a Fine jacket with the slightest edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 352 pages.

Washington, DC: International Development Association, September 1993. Paperback. Fine. Slightly aged, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 44 pages. World Bank Report No. P-6157-SL

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, April 2006. First U.S. Edition / full number line. Fine book with pictorial cover in a Fine half jacket. Not from a library. As New but for a black remainder mark on the bottom edge. xiv + 478 pages.In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave… Read More

Washington, DC: Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center, August 1973. Series 1501 Air; Sheet NC 29-13; Edition 2; Map. Reprinted by NIMA October 1997. 22" x 29" sheet, folded to 11" x 7.5". NIMA Stock No. 1501ANC2913. Color. Printed on one side.