An assortment of books that might be of interest to someone going to Malawi. Help us add to the list by e-mailing us your favorites (link).
Travel Guides
- The Brandt Travel Guide : Malawi (Philip Briggs): Travel guide to Malawi .
- Lonely Planet : Malawi (David Else): Travel guide to Malawi .
- My Malawi Journal (Bea Buckley): One Peace Corps Volunteer’s experience in Malawi .
- Spectrum Guide to Malawi (Kelley White): Travel guide to Malawi .
- Visitor’s Guide to Malawi (Martine Maurel): Travel guide to Malawi .
History
Shaka the Great (Mazisi Kunena): Story of one of the world’s greatest generals, Shaka, who as leader of the Zulu nation drove the Europeans out of Zululand .
Fiction and Autobiography
To Africa With Spatula (Jane Baker Lotter): Story of one family’s experience in Malawi , told by the wife of a former Peace Corps Country Director.
Return to Laughter (Elenore Smith Bowen): An anthropologist goes to Africa , and recounts the incredible give-and-take inherent in every cultural exchange.
Dark Star Safari , On the Edge of the Great Rift, and Girls at Play (Paul Theroux): Three books by one of Peace Corps’s most controversial writers, all grounded in his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi.
For more, see http://www.abacci.com/atlas/books.asp?countryID=256
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