In Ethiopia with a Mule
by Dervla Murphy | 
Long Way Down
by Ewan McGregor | 
Travels in West Africa
by Mary Kingsley | 
Malaria Dreams
by Stuart Stevens |
To Timbuktu
by Mark Jenkins | 
In Arabian Nights
by Tahir Shah |
Surrender or Starve
by Robert D. Kaplan | 
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher |
Crazy River
by Richard Grant |
No Mercy
by Redmond O'Hanlon |
Swahili for the Broken-hearted
by Peter Moore |
Angry Wind
by Jeffrey Tayler | 
Dark Star Safari
by Paul Theroux | 
Bill Bryson's African Diary
by Bill Bryson |
PrairyErth
by William Least Heat-Moon | 
Walking the Nile
by Levison Wood | 
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
by Tony Horwitz | 
City of Djinns
by William Dalrymple | 
Travels With Myself
by Tahir Shah | 
Trail of Feathers
by Tahir Shah |
King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, was possessed of extraordinary wealth. The grand temple he built in Jerusalem was covered in gold. Over the ages, many have sought to find the source of the great king's wealth -- but none with so much flair, wit, or whimsy as Tahir Shah. Intrigued by a map he finds in a shop not far from the site of the temple, Shah assembles a multitude of clues to the location of Solomon's mines. From ancient texts to modern hearsay, all point across the Red Sea to Ethiopia. Shah's trail takes him on a wild ride by taxi, bus, camel, and donkey to the gold-bearing corners of this storied and beautiful country. He interviews the hyena man of Harar, is hauled up on a rope to enter a remote cliff-face monastery, and stumbles upon an illegal gold mine where thousands of men, women, and children dig with their hands. But the hardest leg of the journey is to the accursed mountain of Tullu Wallel, where legend says the devil keeps watch over the entrance to an ancient mine shaft... Book jacket.