Reading list

  • General

    Burton, Richard F, The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, 2 vols, London, Longman & Co., 1860.

    Casati, Gaetano, Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha, London, London, Frederick Warne, 1891.

    Churchill, Winston S, My African Journey, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.

    Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, London, Dent, 1902.

    Davidson, Basil, The Growth of African Civilisation: East and Central Africa to the Late Nineteenth Century, London, Longmans, 1968.

    Goodall, Jane, In the Shadow of Man, London, Collins, 1971.

    Goodall, Jane, Through a Window, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990.

    Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold’s Ghost, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

    Lugard, Frederick J D, The Rise of our East African Empire, London, Frank Cass, 1968.

    Miller, Charles, The Lunatic Express, Nairobi, Westlands Sundries Ltd., 1987.

    Moorhead, Alan, The White Nile, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1960.

    Naipaul, Vidiadhar S, A Bend in the River, London, Andre Deutsch, 1979.

    Odhiambo, E S Atieno, et al., A History of East Africa, London, Longman, 1977.

    Pakenham, Thomas, The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991.

    Speke, John H, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1864.

    Stanley, Henry M, In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, 2 vols, London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1890.

    Vassanji, Moyez G, The Book of Secrets. London, Macmillan 1995.

    Wrong, Michela, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, London, Fourth Estate 2000.

    Wrong, Michela, It's Our Turn to Eat, London, Fourth Estate 2009.

    Yeoman, Guy, Africa’s Mountains of the Moon, London, Savitri Books, 1989.

  • Uganda

    Allen, Peter, Interesting Times: Uganda Diaries 1955 - 1986, Sussex, The Book Guild, 2000.

    De Filippi, Filippo, Ruwenzori: an account of the expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, London, Dutton 1908.

    Foden, Giles, The last King of Scotland, London, Faber & Faber, 1998.

    Forward, Alan, You have been allocated Uganda, Poyntington 1999.

    Johnston, Harry, The Uganda Protectorate, vols 2, London, Hutchinson, 1902.

    Mamdani, Mahmood, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Kampala, Uganda, Fountain Publishers, 1996.

    Measures, Bob and Walker, Tony, Amin’s Uganda, London, Minerva Press, 1998.

    Museveni, Yoweri K, Sowing the Mustard Seed, London, Macmillan 1997.

    Ondataatje, Christopher, Journey to the Source of the Nile, Toronto, Harper Collins, 1998.

    Pluth, David, Uganda Rwenzori, Switzerland, Little Wolf Press, 1996.

    Pluth, David, Eye of the Storm, London, Camerapix, 2002.

    Sood, Satya V, Victoria’s Tin Dragon - a railway that built a nation, Cambridge, Vanguard Press, 2007.

    Sorbol, Richard, Breakfast in the Rainforest: A Visit with Mountain Gorillas, Massachusetts, Candlewick Press 2008.

    Turnbull, Colin, The Mountain People, London, Pimlico, 1994.

  • Gorillas

    Baumgartel, Walter, Up Among the Mountain Gorillas, New York, Hawthorne Books, 1976.

    Baumgartel, Walter, König in Gorillaland, Stuttgart, Franckh’sche Verlaghandlung, 1960.

    Campbell, Bob, The taming of the Gorillas, London, Minerva Press, 2000.

    Eckart, Gene and Lanjouw Annette, Mountain Gorillas: Biology, Conservation, and Coexistence, Baltimore, J Hopkins University Press, 2008.

    Fossey, Dian, Gorillas in the Mist, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983.

    Gongo, Phenny, Agandi Bwindi: a Visitor's Handboo, Nakayiba, 1995.

    Grant, Andrew Y, Nearly Human: The Gorilla’s Guide to Good Living, New York, Tatra Press, 2007.

    Hanson, Thor, The Impenetrable Forest, Lincoln Nebrasca, iUniverse, 2001.

    Hayes, Harold T P, The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1990.

    Mowat, Farley, Woman in the Mists, New York, Warner Books, 1987.

    Schaller, George B, The Year of the Gorilla, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1964.

    Weber Bill and Vedder Amy, In the Kingdom of Gorillas, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2001.

  • Guide Books

    Bechky, Allen, Adventuring in East Africa, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1990.

    Blundell, Michael A, Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of East Africa, London, Collins, 1987.

    Briggs, Philip, Uganda, Chalfont St Peter, Bradt Travel Guides, 2007.

    Briggs, Philip and Booth, Janice, Rwanda, Chalfont St Peter, Bradt Travel Guides, 2006.

    Bygott, David and Hanby, Jeannette, A Guidebook to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda Wildlife Authority, 1998.

    Camerapix, Spectrum Guide to Uganda, Nairobi, Camerapix Publishers International, 1998.

    Carcasson, Robert H, Handguide to the Butterflies of Africa, London, Collins, 1971.

    Dorst, Jean and Dandelot, Pierre, A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa, London, Collins, 1970.

    Hodd, Michael, East Africa Handbook, Chicago, Footprint Handbooks, 1999.

    Kingdon, Jonathan, The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals, London, A&C Black, 2004.

    Oates, John F, African primates: status survey and conservation action plan, Cambridge, Gland, 1996.

    Rossouw, Jonathan and Sacchi, Marco, Where to Watch Birds in Uganda, Uganda Tourist Board, 1998.

    van Perlo, Ber, Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of Eastern Africa, London Collins, 1995.

    Zimmerman Dale A, et al, Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, London, Christopher Helm, 2005.