Destination Gambia

Recommended Reading

Guide books

Barnett, Linda and Graig Emms. Bradt Travel Guide, The Gambia. USA: The Globe Pequot Press Inc., 2006

Bennett, Lindsay. Travellers Guide to The Gambia. UK: Thomas Cook Publishing, 2011. Updated by Lisa Voormeij, this website's author.

Gregg, Emma and Richard Trillo. Rough Guide to The Gambia. New York: Rough Guides Ltd., 2006

Kane, Katharina. Lonely Planet, The Gambia & Senegal. Lonely Planet Publications, 2009

Penney, Dr. David. Field Guide to Wildlife of The Gambia. Manchester: Siri Scientific Press, 2009

Local publications

Sonko-Godwin, Patience. Trade in the Senegambia Region, From the 12th to the Early 20th Century. Banjul: Sunrise Publishers, 2004

Medical

Lankester, Ted. The Traveller's Good Health Guide. London: Sheldon Press, 2002

Werner, David, et. al. Where There is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook for Africa. London: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1993 

Travel and Africa

Bacquart, Jean-Babtiste. The Tribal Arts of Africa: Surveying Africa's Artistic Geography. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2004

Butcher, Tim. Blood River. London: Vintage Books, 2008

Folden, Giles. The Last King of Scotland. Random House USA, 1999

Folden, Giles. Zanzibar. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2003

Freemantle, Tom. The Road to Timbuktu. Robinson Publishing, 2005

Moyo, Dambisa. Dead Aid. FSG, 2009 

Palin, Michael. Sahara. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002 (available on DVD as well) 

Piven, Joshua and David Borgenicht. The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel. Book Soup Publishing, 2001

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

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