The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald - I had read this book before, perhaps during my high school or college years, but I wanted to read...

Talking Leaves  by Joseph Bruchac - link to my post (library copy) The Foundations of Western Civilization by Thomas F. X. Noble (Great Co...

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile   by Candace Millard I loved Millard's River o...

A Memory for Wonders: A True Story by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, P.C.C. This stunningly beautiful book is the autobiography of Mothe...

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton with Herman Viola This fascinating little book was wri...

  A Girl Called Problem: A Novel  by Katie Quirk I wanted to pre-read this before First Daughter studies Africa in geography next year. It...

As I was wrapping up our  Mater Amabilis™ Level 1A year and organizing the Level 2 plans for Second Son, my youngest, I realized that ove...

West with the Night by Beryl Markham Beryl Markharm moved to Africa with her father when she was very young. Her memoir, West with the...

In Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla Murphy This book appears for  Geography of Africa in the Mater Amabilis™ Lesson 5 plans . Original...

The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (The Great Courses) by Patrick N. Allitt We've been immersed in Mater Amabilis™ for over t...

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal I found this book in our library catalog when I was trying ...

Out of Africa  and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen Out of Africa  is one of the optional additional reading book suggestions for ...

The History of Ancient Egypt by Bob Brier This is a fantastic series of 48 lectures, each one around thirty minutes long. Professor Br...

Four Years in Paradise by Osa Johnson Osa Johnson is one of my personal heroes. Kansas Dad finds this enormously amusing since (as h...

Great Sand Dunes in Colorado, but just imagine it's the Sahara I wrote earlier this week on how we fared using Charlotte Mason'...

The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley The Flame Trees of Thika  is the suggested travel or adventure book for Africa in Level 5 Y...

These are the picture books we read when Reading Around the World with a focus on the continent of Africa. Oh so long ago, my children wer...