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2) Trade wind
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Just before the American Civil War Athena Hollis travels to Zanzibar, a center of the African slave trade, to reform the dark continent.
Author
Series
Publisher
M. Wiener Pub
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Return to an era when Zanzibar was ruled by sultans, and enter a vanished world of harems, slave trading, and court intrigues. In this insider's story, a sultan's daughter who fled her gilded cage offers a compelling look at nineteenth-century Arabic and African royal life. After years of exile in Europe, the former princess wrote this fascinating memoir as a legacy for her children and a warm reminiscence of her island home. Born Salamah bint Said,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Musa and his sister travel to a Zanzibar beach in a shared minibus which, despite Musa's protests, gets loaded with everything from a man and his bicycle to ten swimmers." --
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Join Jeff Corwin as he travels to Borneo, Indonesia and Zanzibar to bring you within arm's length of seldom-seen, endangered animals. In this three episode compilation, you'll see red colubus monkeys, orphaned orangutans, reclusive proboscis monkeys and much more!
9) Gravel heart
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into...
20) Devil dance
Author
Series
Jade Del Cameron ; 7
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"During the romantic and adventurous 1920's in East Africa, Jade del Cameron and her mother, Inez, are touring Zanzibar Island before Jade's wedding to Sam Featherstone. At the same time, Sam plans a safari with Jade's father, Richard, to get better acquainted. What could go wrong? Witchcraft on Zamzibar's neighboring island of Pemba, that's what"--Page 4 of cover.