Before the slave ships arrived on Africa’s shores, the continent was already home to powerful kingdoms, wealthy cities, thriving markets, skilled scholars, and trading networks that stretched across deserts and oceans. Before the Slave Ships takes readers into that world, bringing to life an Africa whose history cannot be reduced to what came after.

 

From the goldfields of West Africa to the great cities of the Sahel and the commercial routes linking the continent with North Africa, the Middle East, and beyond, this book explores how African societies built wealth, knowledge, political power, and cultural influence on their own terms.

 

Rather than beginning with conquest or captivity, this is a story about what came before. It offers a fuller view of Africa’s past and invites readers to see the continent not as a passive destination in world history, but as a place where ambitious states rose, ideas travelled, fortunes were made, and civilization flourished.

Barbara Cartland was the most prolific and popular romantic author of the Twentieth Century enchanting millions of readers with her unequalled tales of pure romance, dashing heroes, beautiful heroines, and of course, her trademark happy endings.



Now, as a tribute to Her Majesty the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee and to Barbara’s enduring appeal to romantics everywhere, her publishers have launched her past collection - The Eternal Collection.



The collection includes - Elizabethan Lover, The Little Pretender, A Ghost in Monte Carlo and A Duel of Hearts which were all in circulation at the time Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952. The books are available at the Kindle Store at Amazon.co.uk – or from Amazon.com.



Ian McCorquodale, Barbara Cartland’s son, said, “My mother would have been so delighted that modern technology can now make her glorious and timeless romances so readily available to new generations of readers all over the world.” weniger anzeigen expand_less