In just a few weeks, I’m leaving for Tanzania! Naturally, my mind first turns to books about or from Tanzania. Last week, I listed six novels I’d like to read before/after the trip; this week, I’m focusing on nonfiction titles.

Guides & Wonky Stuff

• Bradt Guide to Tanzania by Philip Briggs
• Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro by Mary Theresa Howard
• The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania by Frank Marlowe

Personal accounts

• The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
• Through the Dark Continent: Volumes One and Two by Henry Morton Stanley
• Going Solo by Roald Dahl
• Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton [children’s book]

Conservation & Culture

• In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
• The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen
• Serengeti Shall Not Die by Bernhard Grzimek
• Among the Elephants by Iain and Oria Douglas Hamilton

Have you read any of these or other nonfiction books on or from Tanzania? What am I missing?