Author: H. Rider Haggard
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814736319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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In 1914, Haggard, the author of colonialist novels King Solomon's Mines and She returned to a South Africa which had greatly changed since the first visits of his youth. This account of his journey as a member of the British Empire's Dominions Royal Commission offers observations on the changed nature of the country after the Anglo-Boer wars and details a number of aspects of the political landscape, including a description of his interview with the founder of the African National Congress, John Dube. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409095576
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of humankind, is a land of stunning landscapes, famous game reserves, and a vibrant culture, but it also has many serious problems, including refugees, AIDS, drought and grinding poverty. It also provides plenty to worry a nervous traveller like Bill Bryson: hair-raising rides in light aircraft, tropical diseases, snakes, insects and large predators. Bryson casts his inimitable eye on a continent new to him, and the resultant diary, though short in length, contains all his trademark laugh-out-loud wit, wry observation and curious insight. All the author’s royalties from this book, as well as all profits, will go to CARE International.
Author: Live the Adventure Press
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781799266099
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Don't Forget The Details Of Your Exciting Adventure! This designer journal/notebook is a convenient 6x9in (23x15cm) size to easily slip into your luggage AND your bookshelf once you've filled the pages up. The 100-page paperback book is a soft matte book and bound with book industry binding (the same standard as your local library books). The quality crisp cream colored paper minimizes ink bleed-through and is perfect for pen or pencil users. The journal/notebook features 100 blank pages containing 50 days of blank canvas to thoroughly express and record your experiences, thoughts and feelings from your adventure. Each day contains space for: Date Location Weather Flora Fauna Memories I Made Today Food I Feasted On Places I Visited High Points Challenges If you like this journal/notebook, click the brand name to see other stylish designs! Don't forget to click the buy button to get your copy!
Author: Live the Adventure Press
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781092130202
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Book Description
Don't Forget The Details Of Your Exciting Adventure! This designer journal/notebook is a convenient 6x9in (23x15cm) size to easily slip into your luggage AND your bookshelf once you've filled the pages up. The 100-page paperback book is a soft glossy book and bound with book industry binding (the same standard as your local library books). The quality crisp white colored paper minimizes ink bleed-through and is perfect for pen or pencil users. The journal/notebook features 100 blank pages containing 50 days of blank canvas to thoroughly express and record your experiences, thoughts and feelings from your adventure. Each day contains space for: Date Location Weather Flora Fauna Memories I Made Today Food I Feasted On Places I Visited High Points Challenges If you like this journal/notebook, click the brand name to see other stylish designs! Don't forget to click the buy button to get your copy!
Author: Henry Rider Haggard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780869809549
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Live the Adventure Press
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781799264002
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Book Description
Don't Forget The Details Of Your Exciting Adventure! This designer journal/notebook is a convenient 6x9in (23x15cm) size to easily slip into your luggage AND your bookshelf once you've filled the pages up. The 100-page paperback book is a soft matte book and bound with book industry binding (the same standard as your local library books). The quality crisp cream colored paper minimizes ink bleed-through and is perfect for pen or pencil users. The journal/notebook features 100 blank pages containing 50 days of blank canvas to thoroughly express and record your experiences, thoughts and feelings from your adventure. Each day contains space for: Date Location Weather Flora Fauna Memories I Made Today Food I Feasted On Places I Visited High Points Challenges If you like this journal/notebook, click the brand name to see other stylish designs! Don't forget to click the buy button to get your copy!
Author: John Malathronas
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
ISBN: 9781840244458
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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A fascinating portrait of the new South Africa by the acclaimed author of Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul. From the stillness of the Karoo savanna to the warmth of the Indian Ocean, and from the exclusive white neighbourhoods of Pretoria to the destitution of the black townships in Cape Town, John Malathronas chronicles a journey in one of the most beautiful countries on Earth. Whether dancing the night away in a club, mountain-biking on the backpacker's bus or watching animals on a safari, John Malathronas is full of sharp observations, be they social, historical, political or botanical. The author draws fascinating portraits of the many Afrikaner, Xhosa, Zulu, Indian and Swazi characters he encounters, all of whom make up the tapestry of the new South Africa.
Author: Hudson Talbott
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152163938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Told in the sassy voice of twelve-year-old Carey Monroe, experience an African safari as you learn about life in Kenya and the culture of the Maasi people.
Author: Uros Krcadinac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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BANTUSTAN is an illustrated travelogue, novel, atlas and encyclopedia. It is at once a textbook for independent travel in Africa, an illustrated atlas, a collection of life stories, an intimate confession, a list of little secrets and shame. Alternating between three narrators, it is a story of division, isolation and contact. Bantustans were reservations for Black Africans set up by the apartheid regime; in this book, bantustans refer to the bubbles in which we all live our lives. The three protagonists, as well as the people they encounter along the way, are constantly struggling to escape these multi-layered bubbles - of ego, family, social circle, class, race, religion, ethnicity, language, nationality etc - and establish contact with the rest of the world. Such attempts are often painful and sometimes downright disastrous, leading to a series of conflicts, disappointments and crises, but ultimately confirming the possibilities and importance of human connections.With a collection of maps, infographics and data visualizations for non-linear reading, BANTUSTAN is an example of ergodic and interactive literature. Readers can choose how to move through the book: in the traditional linear fashion, or using the maps as visual interfaces for skipping from one story to another. The maps represent a tapestry of pictograms, ideograms, scripts, labyrinths, emblems, motifs, secret messages and hidden clues for the reader to discover and decipher.BANTUSTAN contains a total of 32 full-page illustrations (19 of which are maps), as well as 25 smaller illustrations/glyphs.Visit www.bantustanbook.com to learn more about the book, the trip and the authors.
Author: Joan Sharwood-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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This book tells the story of a colonial service wife extending nearly twenty years, from the beginning of World War II to the eve of Nigerian independence. No sooner had the author arrived in 1939 than she had to learn to deal with her husband's strange life of lonely stations, horse treks, encounters with snakes in bat-ridden rest houses, and to get to know the language in the people. With the fall of France in 1940, Nigeria became a frontier province and her husband became an army officer in cahrge of transfrontier intelligence. She became his adjutant and cypher clerk, and also hosted French officers and General de Gaulle.
