Further reading
The books listed below only refer to books that we have read and guides that we have used and is not an exhaustive list of the literature available on Rwanda.   The list also does not express our preference of certain published works above other available publications. As regards travel advice for Rwanda though, we have found the Bradt Guide very reliable, informative and unbiased.

Genocide and Background

•  Dallaire, Lt. Gen Romeo Shake Hands with the Devil Random House, 2004

•  Gourevitch, Philip We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families Picador, 1998

•  Rwanda - Death, Despair and Defiance African Rights, London, 1995

•  Keane, Feargal Season of Blood - a Rwandan Journey Penguin, 1995

•  Hartley, Aidan   The Zanzibar Chest Harper Perennial, 2004

• Immaculée Ilibagiza (with Steve Erwin)  Left to Tell  Hay House UK Ltd 2006

• Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman  Long Way Down John O'Groats to Cape Town Sphere, London, 2007

Rwanda Natural History

•  Fossey, Dian Gorillas in the Mist Hodder & Stoughton, 1983

•  Mowat, Farley Woman in the Mists Futura, 1987

•  Webber, Bill & Vedder, Amy In the Kingdom of Gorillas Aurum Press, 2002

Field and Country Guides

•  Stuart, Chris & Tilde The Larger Mammals of Africa Struik, 1997

•  Estes, Richard The Safari Companion Green Books (UK), Russell Friedman Books (SA), Chelsea Green (USA)

•  Stevenson, Terry & Fanshawe, Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa T & A D Poyser, 2002

•  Nyungwe National Park Guide Nyungwe Forest Conservation Project (Wildlife Conservation Society)

•  Booth, Janice & Briggs, Philip Rwanda - The Bradt Travel Guide   2nd Edition, Bradt Travel Guides, 2004

Africa - Background

•  Reader, John Africa: A Biography of the Continent Hamish Hamilton, 1997

• Jean-Pierre Chrétien  The Great Lakes of Africa Two Thousand Years of History (Translated by Scott Straus) Zone Books, New York, 2003

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