Start with high-confidence north africa travel books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
A Sense of the World
Jason Roberts
The White Nile
Alan Moorehead
The Race for Timbuktu
Frank T. Kryza
Crossing the Heart of Africa
Julian Smith
Journey Without Maps
Graham Greene
North Africa, Revised Edition
Phillip Naylor, Phillip C. Naylor
The Pirates of Somalia
Jay Bahadur
Journey to the Vanished City
Tudor Parfitt
In Arabian Nights
Tahir Shah
Traveling Man
James Rumford
A Traveller's History of North Africa
Barnaby Rogerson