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24 books recommended for fans of Ismailia by Samuel White Baker, tied together by themes of Africa and Biography & Autobiography.

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Ismailia.

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

Sandstorm

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers

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Themes: Africa

The Big Game of Africa

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Themes: Africa

Eduardo Mondlane Hope Destroyed

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

The Discarded Brick – Volume 1 An African Autobiography in 26 Countries on 3 Continents. a Trilogy in 3 Seasons

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

Slave My True Story

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

Beneath the Tamarind Tree A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#10

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight An African Childhood

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#11

Anansi’s Gold The Man who Swindled the World

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#12

Father and Son: a Memoir about Family, the Past and Mortality

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#13

Cannae Hannibal’s Greatest Victory

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#14

Victory for My Village Fulfilling the Promise

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#15

A Child Connecting

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#16

Stolen Girls Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story

Wolfgang Bauer

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#17

What I Saw in Kaffir-Land Experiences With ‘the Waterkloof Rangers’ During the Xhosa Wars in Cape Colony

Stephen Lakeman

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#18

Pocket Bios: Nelson Mandela

Albin Quéru

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#19

A Walk Against the Stream A Rhodesian National Service Officer’s Story of the Bush War

Tony Ballinger

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#20

Colour Bar The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

Susan Williams

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#21

From Superman to Man

J. A. Rogers

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#22

Carthage Must be Destroyed The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilization

Richard Miles

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

#23

Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism Reinterpreted, 1909–1972

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Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

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Hero of the Empire The Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard

Themes: Africa • Biography & Autobiography

If Ismailia by Samuel White Baker is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Africa, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Michela Wrong, Laurence Gough, Gloria Whelan, Richard Tjader, and others.