FREE Returns

FREE delivery Wednesday, 2 August. Details

Or fastest delivery Tomorrow, 31 July. Order within 13 hrs 46 mins. Details

Select delivery location

Only 1 left in stock

££42.54 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Payment

Secure transaction

Dispatches from

Amazon

Sold by

D&M BookWorld

Returns

Returnable within 30 days of receipt

Details

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Dispatches from

Amazon

Sold by

D&M BookWorld

Returns

Returnable within 30 days of receipt

Item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt

Read full return policy

Add gift options

FREE delivery 2 - 4 August. Details

Select delivery location

Used: Good | Details

Sold by The Cotswold Library

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

Follow the author

Bob Geldof

Geldof In Africa Hardcover – 27 May 2005

by Bob Geldof (Author), Paul Vallely (Author), John Maguire (Photographer)

4.6 12 ratings

See all formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Audible Audiobooks, Unabridged

"Please retry"

£0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover

"Please retry"

£42.54

£39.65

£0.50

Paperback

"Please retry"

£54.05

—

£54.05

Audio CD, Audiobook

"Please retry"

£8.75

£6.50

£4.23

{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"£42.54","priceAmount":42.54,"currencySymbol":"£","integerValue":"42","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"54","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"SjvUdCauuqZWtqbwViyZlnbdiokv0Y3hcIhcGuWDUZHxqd2e6A1Iy5GiXy9edzzC5THs4XUBT9t6SP69hBlF%2F%2Fuqcc2EVoaM6vNbnuK%2FOQZpCPK%2F0585CfbylA35STDAXnBLFyYWSX7UM3OENXEqsOw1NrV9xKfUUluD3PfgFTdBAcYNeHrgg4PzBMp4P%2BZr","locale":"en-GB","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"£3.27","priceAmount":3.27,"currencySymbol":"£","integerValue":"3","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"27","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"SjvUdCauuqZWtqbwViyZlnbdiokv0Y3hxsZc4Z6itaTZ8A8xaQmdwMfJlfs9ynSs7nqSbFv1fxNaSqywnkG53CWkcSKEPoGPBrfWDW4riHnawC1km4dtf5Inipb%2Bs8EoXwH9IfoJ5GTWxaCojarGQ%2FgCX2M7Jzm4nD0x74W3lJ3%2BZ34Bv8hd7ILPZzyRlUD%2F","locale":"en-GB","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Bob Geldof celebrates the glories of Africa and its diverse peoples in a stunningly illustrated book tracking his journey across the continent. Provocative, informative, funny, poignant and endlessly entertaining, Geldof supplies his own unique take on this extraordinary land. Travelling through Ghana, Benin, Mall, D. R Congo, Uganda, Ethiopa, Tanzania and Somalia he mixes adventure and anecdote to bring the colours and contradictions of Africa to life. Includes over 350 photographs - many taken by Bob himself - of his amazing journey.

Print length

320 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Century
Publication date

27 May 2005
Dimensions

24.77 x 3.18 x 27.56 cm
ISBN-10

1844137074
ISBN-13

978-1844137077
See all details

Product description

Review

Geldof's diary of 20 years' wandering through Africa is extremely well written and often remarkable -- The Sunday Times

Geldof, who was always humane, is now pretty shrewd, and may even have become a little wise -- The Sunday Times

From the Author

Africa has the lot, desert with its vast seas of sand, tropical with its jungles, equatorial with its rainforest, savannah and coastal with its animal and fish. And within this immense continent, more peoples, more language, more cultures, more animals than anywhere else on our world. It is quite simply the most extraordinary, beautiful and luminous place on our planet.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Century (27 May 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1844137074
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844137077
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 24.77 x 3.18 x 27.56 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 1,548,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 6,797 in Social Welfare & Services
- 12,622 in Travel Writing (Books)

Customer reviews:
4.6 12 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Bob Geldof

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

4.6 out of 5

12 global ratings

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star 0% (0%)		0%
1 star 0% (0%)		0%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from United Kingdom

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Victoria Ward

over 7 hours of Bobbing and still gripped

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 August 2006

I don't like Bob Geldof. Its not reasonable, but I don't. But I read a review of this audio book in the Guardian, around the time I was thinking what to buy for my 14 hour ferry/drive to the South of France. So I decided to give it a go. I'm fascinated by Africa, and the review was so good I overcame my prejudice and bought it. Then I had to overcome my mother's prejudice - she dislikes Sir Bob about as much as she disliked the Queen Mum, which is not a little. She was coming down with me. I persuaded her to listen to a bit and if she didn't like it, we'd skip to either Dubliners or Nelson Mandela's autobiography.

We were hooked. We'd Bob a bit, and then listen to some music, then do some more Bobbing, as she called it. The enormous range, the passion with which he delivers statistics and stories and pithy insights, the remarkable absence of self-aggrandisement (apart from the rather slimy tributes to rock stars right at the end of the last disc), even the bits of excess purple - focking fungal, foetid smells... - where we could do with a few fewer adjectives. Who cares. He delivers information and personal experience and insight and broadened both our views of what Africa is, does, feels like, smells like.

I tried it on the teenagers who came to stay too, including my daughter. 'Oh God, not bloody Bob Geldof, I can't stand him' they shrieked, one and all. But I was driving, so I got to chose. And they caved in and got sucked in and couldn't stop listening. Although we did all agree that the richer excesses invite a Bobetition to see who can outBob him. So we are starting one.

I recommend this from my heart. If you want to get Africa, get this audiobook.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

steeve patrick

Poverty is not always about money...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 August 2005

I saw the documentary on the BBC and admired Geldof's "in your face" approach to Africa's history. When it credited him for all the writing, I was happy to find this book and indeed, his diary style writing has more of an impact than most African history books written by scholars and historians who possibly never even visited our motherland. His comments are sharp and inspired and do justice to the complex situation in Africa through first hand experiences. At this price, it is clear to me that the money goes into the production of this big and picture intensive book (it is made in Germany, not Taiwan) and if there's any money left, well Geldof deserves it for educating us the way no other dares to, and hopefully will make sure he brings us more quality products such as this book in the future! Why would people criticise him for releasing such wonderful book when the same people won't mind paying for a Cola or a chocolate bar (both ingredients are still at the root of African child slavery)? The irony...

33 people found this helpful

Helpful

Ms. S. Clancy

Great book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 May 2022

Verified Purchase

Good value for Money

Helpful

Amazon Music Stream millions of songs	AbeBooks Books, art & collectables	ACX Audiobook Publishing Made Easy	Amazon Web Services Scalable Cloud Computing Services

Audible Download Audiobooks	Book Depository Books With Free Delivery Worldwide	DPReview Digital Photography	Goodreads Book reviews & recommendations

Amazon Home Services Experienced pros Happiness Guarantee	IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities	Kindle Direct Publishing Indie Digital & Print Publishing Made Easy	Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands

Amazon Warehouse Deep Discounts Open-Box Products	Amazon Business Service for business customers	Whole Foods Market We Believe in Real Food

Buy new: £42.54£42.54 FREE delivery: Wednesday, Aug 2 in the UK Dispatches from: Amazon Sold by: D&M BookWorld

Buy used £3.27

Follow the author

Geldof In Africa Hardcover – 27 May 2005

Purchase options and add-ons

Product description

Review

From the Author

About the Author

Product details

About the author

Bob Geldof

Customer reviews

Top reviews from United Kingdom

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Buy new:

£42.54

FREE delivery: Wednesday, Aug 2 in the UK

Dispatches from: Amazon

Sold by: D&M BookWorld

Buy used

£3.27