Cape Verde Travel Guides and Books

Travel Guide Books about Cape Verde Islands

Only a very few travel guides are available about the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. These beautiful and interesting  tropical islands far west from West Africa with a complicated history as a stop over for slave trade, a hide away for pirates and as a colony of Portugal. Now Cape Verde is a tourist destination in fast development and investment opportunities are also a big thing in Cape Verde.

I hope you will find this long list of Cape Verde books useful for your interest.

Aisling Irwin
Cape Verde Islands, 3rd: The Bradt Travel Guide 
Bradt Cape Verde Islands 
Cape Verde for business 
Cape Verde Islands (Bradt Travel Guides) (Bradt Travel Guides) 

The Azores, Madeira, Canaries, and Cape Verde Islands, and Africa from Cape Spartel to Cape Palmas 

J. D. La Fleur
Pieter Van Den Broecke’s Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612) 
Hakluyt Society, Series III, Vol.5: Pieter Van Den Broecke’s Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola 1605-1612 
Pieter Van Den Broecke’s Journal Of Voyages To Cape Verde 
Pieter Van Den Broecke’s Journal Of Voyages To Cape Verde, Guinea And Angola (1605-1612). (Series III, Volume 3) 
Pieter Van Den Broecke’s Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola 1605-1612 (Series III, Volume 5) 

Anne Hammick
Atlantic Islands: Canaries,Maderia,Azores,Cape Verde 
The Atlantic Islands: Azores, Canaries, Madeira and Cape Verde Islands 

Richard A Lobban
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde 
Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony To Independent Nation (Nations of the Modern World) 
Cape Verde: Criulo Colony to Independent Nation 
Cape Verde 
Historical Dictionary of the Republics of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde: African Historical Dictionaries, No. 22 

USA International Business Publications
Cape Verde Foreign Policy and Government Guide 
Cape Verde Business Intelligence Report 
Cape Verde Country Study Guide 
Cape Verde Business Law Handbook 
Cape Verde Investment and Business Guide 
Cape Verde Diplomatic Handbook 
Cape Verde Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook 
Cape Verde Business Intelligence Report 
Cape Verde Mining Laws and Regulations Handbook (World Law Business Library) 
Cape Verde Business Law Handbook 
Cape Verde Country 
Cape Verde Ecology & Nature Protection Handbook 
Cape Verde Mineral & Mining Sector Investment And Business Guide 
Western Africa Mining Industry Business Opportunities Handbook Volume 1 (Benin Burkina Faso Cameron Cape Verde Central Africa Chad) 
Cape Verde 
Cape Verde a Spy Guide 
Cape Verde Ecology & Nature Protection Laws and Regulation Handbook 
Cape Verde Energy Policy, Laws and Regulation Handbook 
Cape Verde Taxation Laws and Regulations Handbook 
Doing Business and Investing in Cape Verde Guide 
Western Africa Mining Industry Business Opportunities Handbook: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameron,

Cape Verde, Central Africa, Chad 
Cape Verde: A “Spy” Guide (World “Spy” Guide Library) 
Cape Verde Country Study Guide (World Country Study Guide 
Cape Verde Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library) 

Cape Verde Country Study Guide (World Country Study Guide Library) 
Cape Verde Diplomatic Handbook (World Business, Investment and Government Library) (World Business, Investment and Government Library) 
Western Africa Mining Industry Business Opportunities Handbook, Volume 1 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameron, Cape Verde, Central Africa, Chad): (World Oil & Gas and Mining Industry Business Opportunities

Donald Burness
Fire: Six Writers from Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde 

Anders Pape Moller
Cape Verde Islands 

Antonio Carreira
The People of the Cape Verde Islands: Exploitation and Emigration 

Philip M. Parker
The 2006 Economic and Product Market Databook for Praia, Cape Verde 
The 2006 Cape Verde Economic and Product Market Databook 
The 2006 Economic and Product Market Databook for Mindelo, Cape Verde 
The 2006 Economic and Product Market Databook for Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde 
The 2006 Economic and Product Market Databook for Santa Maria, Cape Verde 

Herb Boyd
Former Portuguese Colonies: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe Me and Principe 
The Former Portuguese Colonies-Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, and Principe 

Marcelo Gomes Balla
Antonio’s Island: Cape Verde 

Tony Clarke
A Field Guide to the Birds of the Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores, Cape Verde (Helm Field Guides): Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores, Cape Verde (Helm Field Guides) 
Ana Mafalda Leite
Cape Verde: Language, Literature & Music 

Cherie Hamilton
Cuisines of Portuguese Encounters: Recipes from Angola, Azores, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Goa, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Madeira, Malacca, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and 

Colm Foy
Cape Verde: Politics, Economics and Society 
Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe 

Mark & Timothy Finan Langworthy
Waiting for Rain: Agriculture and Ecological Imbalance in Cape Verde 

C. J. Hazevoet
The Birds of the Cape Verde Islands: An Annotated Checklist 

Gerald M. Moser
Changing Africa: The First Literary Generation of Independent Cape Verde 

E. Rolan,
Malacological Fauna from the Cape Verde Arcipelago 
Malacological Fauna from the Cape Verde Arcipelago. In 8vo, 456 pag. a colori e B/N 
Malacological fauna from the Cape Verde Archipelago [Polyplacophora: H.Strack, Opisthobranchia: A.Valdez, cont. Mollusca: K.Groh] 

Basil William Miller
Miracle in Cape Verde: The story of Everette and Garnet Howard 

Helen Frances Temple
We walk by faith: Stories from Britain, Europe, Cape Verde, and the Middle East (Missionary study book) 

Rolan E. & Rubio F.,
New species of the genera Elachisina and Rissoella from the Cape Verde Archipelago 

Thomas Bentley Duncan
Atlantic Islands: Madeira, the Azores, and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation (Studies in the History of Discoveries) 

Van der Linden J.,
The Metaxiinae dredged by the CANCAP expeditions, with the new speciex Metaxia carinapex and Metaxia hapax from the Cape Verde Islands. In 8¡, offp., pp. 8 con 10 figs 
Scacchia exserta spec. nov. from the Cape Verde Islands and Mauritania 
Scacchia exserta spec. nov. from the Cape Verde Islands and Mauritania (Bivalvia, Heterodonta: Lasaeidae). In 8°, bross., pp. 4 con 7 figs. 

Rough Guides
Rough Guide to the Music of Cape Verde 
The Rough Guide to the Music of Cape Verde (Rough Guide World Music Cds) By… 

Olive G Tracy
The Nations And the Isles, a Study Of Missionary Work Of the Church of the Nazarene In the Nation’s, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Italy, and the Isles, the Cape Verde Islands 
The Nations and the Isles: A Study of Missionary Work of the Church of the Nazarene In the Nation’s; Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Italy, and the Isles, the Cape Verde Islands 

Laura Bigman
History and Hunger in West Africa: Food Production and Entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) 

Boyer F. & Rol!n E.,
Granulina fernandesi, a new species from Cape Verde Islands, and some considerations on the genus Granulina 

Basil Davidson
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde 
Archibald Lyall
Black and White Make Brown -An Account of a Journey to the Cape Verde Islands and Portuguese Guinea 

Mellen Press
The Life, Thought, And Legacy of Cape Verde’s Freedom Fighter Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973): Essays on His Liberation Philosophy 

Gerald Part
Volcanic Rocks From the Cape Verde Islands 

Alice Spangenberg
Jerusalem and Beyond: Christian Missions in the Cape Verde Islands & the Middle East 

Elsie Clews Parsons
Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands [Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Volume XV - Parts I & II, 2 volume set] 
Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands. Two Volumes. (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. XV, parts 1 and 2) 
Folk-Lore of the Cape Verde Islanders 

U.S. Government
2008 Country Profile and Guide to Cape Verde – National Travel Guidebook and Handbook – USAID, Energy in Africa, Agriculture, ECOWAS (Two CD-ROM Set) 
21st Century Complete Guide to Cape Verde – Encyclopedic Coverage, Country Profile, History, DOD, State Dept., White House, CIA Factbook 
21st Century Complete Guide to Cape Verde – Encyclopedic Coverage, Country Profile, History, DOD, State Dept., White House, CIA Factbook (Two CD-ROM Set) 

Various Artists
Music from Cape Verde 
Popular Music from Cape Verde 
Rough Guide to Music of Cape Verde 

Boekschotem G.J. & Gittenberger E.,
Fossil terrestrial snails from the Cape Verde Archipelago. In 8¡, offp., pp. 4 con 4 figs 
Fossil terrestrial snails from the Cape Verde Archipelago 
A Henry Savage Landor
Across Widest Africa. An Account of the Country and People of Eastern,Central and Western Africa As Seen During a Twelve Months’ Journey fromDjibuti to Cape Verde 
Across widest Africa. An account of the country and people of eastern, central and western Africa as seen during a twelve month’s journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde. 2 volumes. 

Lydia Howard
Island hopper: Adventure in Cape Verde (Middler/Junior missionary reading books) 

Reiner F. & Martins P.,
First record of Cantherines macrocerus from Cape Verde Archipelago, Wst Africa 

Joseph A. Sevigny
Cape Verde 
FOREIGN OFFICE.
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1911 ON THE TRADE OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS 
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1913 ON THE TRADE OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS 

Lobin W., Fischer E., Ormonde J.
The ferns and fern-allies (Pteridophyta) of the Cape verde Islands, West Africa. In 8°, offp., pp. 115 + 36 figs 
The ferns and fernallies (Pteridophyta) of the Cape verde Islands, West Africa 

Otero-Schmitt J.,
The communities of Galaxaura (Chaetangiaceaea, Rhodophyta) at the Cape Verde islands. In 8°, offp., pp. 8 con 2 figs. 
The communities of Laurencia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) at the Cape Verde islands. In 8°, offp., pp. 8 con 2 figs. 

Richard Lobban & Marlene Lopes
Historical Dictionary of the Republics of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (African Historical Dictionaries) 
Historical Dictionary of the Republics of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde [African Historical Dictionaries, No. 62] 

D. Whittlesey
Dakar And The Other Cape Verde Settlements 
Dakar and the other Cape Verde Settlements , Offprint – from the Smithsonian Report for 1942, pages 381-408 – n° 3725 

David A. & W.M.Bannerman
Birds of the Atlantic Islands. Vol. 4: History of the birds of the Cape Verde Islands. 
BOAS (Franz) editor
The Journal of American Folklore January 1921 #131 includes Elsie Clews Parsons’ Folklore Cape Verde , Caddie Isham’ Games of Danville VA 

T. Clarke
Birds of the Atlantic Islands. Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores, Cape Verde. 

Cherie Y Hamilton
Cuisines of Portuguese Encounters: Recipes Frpm Portugal, Madiera/Azores, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Mozambique, Goa, Brazil, M 
International Travel Maps
Cape Verde 1: 500 000 a Travellers Reference Map 

Lisa Akesson
Making a Life. Meanings of Migration in Cape Verde 

Richard A. J Lobban
Cape Verde Crioulo Colony to Independent 

MOOLENBEEK R.G.,
A new species of Eatonina from the Cape Verde Islands. In 8¡, offp., pp. 3 con 5 figs 
Robert Cushman MURPHY
The Marine Ornithology of the Cape Verde Islands, with a List of all the Birds, of the Archipelago 

David Porter
JOURNAL OF A CRUISE MADE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE ESSEX, IN THE YEARS 1812, 1813, AND 1814. CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS, COASTS OF BRAZIL, PATAGONIA, CHILE, AND PERU, AND OF THE GALLAPAGOS ISLANDS. 

Putumayo Presents
Cape Verde 

Rolan E. & Luque A.,
Two new species of Columbellidae (Buccinoidea) from thr Cape Verde Archipelago 
John Samuel (fl. – THORNTON
West Coast of Africa] A Chart of the Coast of Guinea from Cape de Verde to Cape Bona Esperança 

VON COSEL & Pisani Burnay L.,
A new Euthria from the deeper shelf of the Cape Verde Isls. In 8¡, offp., pp. 6. with 2 maps and 1pl., German & Portuguese summ 

Sue Dobson
Travellers Cape Verde: Guides to destinations worldwide (Travellers – Thomas Cook) 
Cape Verde 

DANIEL- GEORGE ROBERTS. DEFOE
The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts; being a Series of Uncommon Events, which befell him In a Voyage to the Islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the Coast of Guiney…Written by himself. 
ANTIQUARIAN HAND COLOURED MAP
Cape Verde Islands – Shows All Islands – Antique Hand Coloured Engraved Map 

JOHN ATKINS
A voyage to Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies; in His Majesty’s ships the Swallow and Weymouth. Describing the several islands and settlements, viz: Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verde, Sierra
Leone, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corfo, and others on … 
David A & W Mary Bannerman
History of the Bird of the Cape Verde Islands – Birds of the Atlantic Islands Vol. IV 

David Armitage Bannerman
Birds of the Atlantic Islands. [Volume Four entitled Birds of the Cape Verde Islands] 
Bellin
(Map of Cape Verde Islands-Africa): (3 small maps on single sheet) 1. Eyland Mayo 2. Aussicht des Eylandes S. Jago cd. St Jacob 3. Der Hafen Praya 

BURNAY, L. P. & ROLAN, E.
The family Scissurellidae in the Cape Verde Islands (Prosobranchia: Archaeogastropoda) 
Countrywatch
Cape Verde Country Review 2003 
D’Après de Mannevillette
`CARTE DES ISLES DU CAP-VERD…’. Sea chart of the Cape Verde Islands with inset chart of the Bay of Praia on St. Yago. 

André DONELHA
Descrição da Serra Leoa e dos Rios de Guiné do Cabo Verde [1625]. An Account of Sierra Leone and the Rivers of Guinea of Cape Verde. Edição do texto portugués, introducção, notas e apendices por Avelino Teixeira da Mota. Notas e tradução inglesa por …  
Earl Mosteller
Cape Verde travelogue (Missionary reading books) 
EIU
Country Profile, São Tomé and Príncipe ; Guinea-Bissau ; Cape Verde : 2000 

M. Geisthardt
Noxious Beetles of the Cape Verde Islands, with Additional Reference to West Africa 

Grant, James, Lieut
The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, Performed in His Majesty’s Vessel the Lady Nelson, of Sixty Tons Burthen, with Sliding Keels, in the Years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales. Including Remarks on the Cape Verde Islands, Cape of Good Hope. 

D. A. Hensley
A New Damselfish Genus from the Cape Verde Archipelago Based on Glyphidodon (Parma) Hermani Steindachner, 1887 (Pisces: Pomacentridae) 
Hv Cape Verd
Cape Verde Tourist Map 

USA Int’l Business Publications
Cape Verde Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook 

International Monetary Fund Staff
Cape Verde: Recent Economic Developments 
Itmb Publishing

Cape Verde Map By Itmb (Travel Reference Map) 

Janssonius, J. / Schenk, P. & Valk, G.
`INSULAE DE CABO VERDE OLIM HESPERIDES SIVE GORGADES…’. Sea chart of the Cape Verde Islands with large decorative cartouche. Published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk from the plate by 

J.D. LA FLUER
PIETER VAN DEN BROECKE’S JOURNAL OF VOYAGES TO CAPE VERDE,GUINEA & ANGOLA [1605-1612] 
Lichens,
Collection of 5 papers on Lichens from Cape Verde, Wisconsin, Greenland and Tahiti 

Lobban, Richard, Marilyn Halter
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde. 2. Aufl. (African Historical Dictionaries, 42) 

E. W. Parsons
Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands 
Aristides et al Pereira
PAICV FIRST CONGRESS: DOCUMENTS FROM THE FORMATION OF THE AFRICAN PARTY FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF CAPE VERDE 

R. C. C. Pilotage Foundation Staff
The Atlantic Islands: Azores, Canaries, Madeira and Cape Verde Islands 

Michel Renaudeau
Cabo Verde: Cape Verde Islands = Cap Vert 
riviste
VISAYA is a new malacological journal with taxonomical andnomenclatural articles. The second issue content: 1) About Visaya 2); E. L. Heiman: Intraspecific Variation in mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758); 3) Felix Lorenz: Two New Species of CONIDAE … 

Robert Morden
Cape Verde Islands. 

Dieter et al Rockel
Cone Shells from Cape Verde Islands, a Difficult Puzzle 

Rolan E. & Templado J.,
The family Cingulopsidae (Prosobranchia: Rissoidea) in the Cape Verde Islands, with the description of one new species. In 8°, offp., pp. 6 con 4 figs. 

Rough Guides Staff
The Music of Cape Verde 

Röckel / Rolan / Monteiro
Cone shells from Cape Verde Islands. A difficult puzzle. A look at the workshop of evolution. 

Röckel, D. & ROLAN, E. & MONTEIRO, A.
Cone Shells from the Cape Verde Islands. 

Straw, H. Thompson, Chairman
PORTUGAL AND THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS Gazetteer No. 50 Official Standard Names 
J. Tallis
‘ISLANDS IN THE ATLANTIC’. Maps of the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, Canary and Bermuda Islands on one sheet, surrounded by decorative border. 

Helen Temple
We Walk By Faith : Stories from Britain, Europe, Cape Verde, and the Middle East 

Helen F Temple
RANSOMED OF THE LORD Missionary Stories from the Middle East, the Cape Verde Islands, and Italy 

THOMAS (Rev. Chas.W.)
Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa and Its Islands, Historical &descriptive Sketches of Madeira…biafra and Cape Verde Islands 

Charles W. Rev Thomas
Adventures And Observations On The West Coast Of Africa And Its Islands: Historical And Descriptive Sketches Of Madeira, Canary, Biafra, And Cape Verde Islands (1860) 

Arthur Wm Waters
SOME COLLECTIONS OF THE LITTORAL MARINE FAUNA OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS MADE BY CYRIL CROSSLAND IN THE OF 1904 – BRYOZOA 

j. Elton Wood
Vicente of Cape Verde 
Cape Verde 
 
Bannerman, David Armitage; Bannerman, W. Mary
History of the Birds of the Cape Verde Islands

Atlantic Islands: Azores, Madeira, Canary and Cape Verde Islands
J. Jesus, A. Brehm, M. Pinheiro and D. J. Harris
Relationships of Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the Cape Verde Islands: What Mitochondrial DNA Data Indicate

Cape Verde 1 : 500 000. ( Kapverdische Inseln) A Travellers Reference Map. Indexed

Cape Verde Map

Azores-Canary islands-Madera- Cape Verde islabds – Antique Hand Coloured Map Circa
Azores, Canary Islands, Madera, Cape Verde Islands
Mrs. Brassey, with illustrations, chiefly after drawings by the Hon. A. Y. Bingham, Frontispiece with tissue Guard some Fox, blank free flyleaf …

Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months ( includes farewell Old England, Cape de Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Chili, Tahiti, Hawaiian Sports ETC )

Islands in the Atlantic – Showing Cape De Verde, Canary
Islands in the Atlantic – Showing Cape De Verde, Azores, Canary, Madeira Isles, Fernado Po, Anno Bon, St. Thomas Ascension, Falkland Islands Etc – an Antique Map

Committee to Support the Republic of Guinea Bissau
On Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands; with a message of support anda petition, October 1973.

Editor-USA International Business Publications
Cape Verde Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Spy Guide Library) (World Spy Guide Library)

Hydrographic Office under the Authority of the Secretary of the Navy
East Atlantic Pilot H. O.( Hydrographic Office ) No. 134 : Coast of Spain & Portugal from Cabo Torinana to Cape Trafalgar, the Madeira Group, the Azores, Canary Islands, cape Verde Islands and the West coast of Africa from Cape Spartel to Cape Palmas 1928
Ibp Usa/ Emerging Markets Investment Center
Cape Verde Investment & Business Guide

Mar Azul/Music of Cape Verde Evora, Cesaria

Johnson, James E. and Delgado, Orlando J.
Farmer Perspectives on Agroforestry Opportunities and Constraints in Cape Verde. This is an eBook

A. Monteiro, M. J. Tenorio & G. T. Poppe,
The Family Conidae. The genus Conus of West Africa and the Mediterranean.West African and Mediterranean species of Conus. With a foreword by Dieter Röckel and a contribution onthe radulae by E. Rolan. In 4to, in sheets for a ring binding, 2+102 pp., …

Van Den Broecke, Pieter [ed. J.D. La Fleur]
Pieter van den Broecke’s Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612 (Hakluyt Society Second Ser., Vol. 5)
PUBLICACOES OCAS. SOC. PORT. MALACOLOGIA
No. 7: a.o. MOTTA, A new cone found off Durban, South Africa: TROVAO & ROLAN, A new Conus.Cape Verde Islands.

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