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A Big Elephant Has Been Killed

Author : Yaw O. Agyeman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469740044
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book A Big Elephant Has Been Killed written by Yaw O. Agyeman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Big Elephant Has Been Killed is a deeply moving and gripping narrative that interweaves stories of ordinary friendships and love's lost promises with a discussion of society and politics in contemporary Ghana. Although Ghana provides the setting, the novel foregrounds a range of issues relevant to Africa and the black Diaspora as a whole. Badly disillusioned from their years of youthful idealism, a group of friends clings with fleeting solace to their vision for their country through their discussions on poverty, pan-Africanism, underdevelopment, religious identity, social revolution and Africa's relationship with the West. But the challenges of their daily existence compel them to question the ethics and relevance of their idealism, and eventually lead to the desperate decision to steal from the "Big Elephant" in the penultimate gamble to empower themselves as agents of social transformation.

Death in the Long Grass

Author : Peter Hathaway Capstick
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466803924
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Long Grass written by Peter Hathaway Capstick and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1978-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer. Based on Capstick’s own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grassportrays the great killers of the African bush—not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world—underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.

The Elephant Vanishes

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307762734
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Elephant Vanishes written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display. In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures. Includes the story "Barn Burning," which is the basis for the major motion picture Burning.

Burmese Days

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667640550
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Burmese Days written by George Orwell and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burmese Days is George Orwell's first novel, originally published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the British empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. At the center of the novel is John Flory, trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature. The novel deals with indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where natives peoples were viewed as interesting, but ultimately inferior. Includes a bibliography and brief bio of the author.

No Entry

Author : Gila Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925856170
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book No Entry written by Gila Green and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken-hearted after losing her only brother in a terrorist attack, 17-year-old Yael Amar seeks solace on an elephant conservation program in South Africa's Kruger National Park. She is soon catapulted into a world harmonious with nature where she can heal and devote herself to the wildlife that is so important for the continued existence of all mankind. She is dazzled by her new best friend, reunites with her devoted boyfriend, and is fascinated by a local ranger who peels back another layer of meaning in her surroundings with each lesson. Then, on a drive through the safari, she sees something shocking. Soon her haven on earth is seething with blood and betrayal and she is warned that she is no match for the evil that lurks in the men's hearts around her. Now she has a secret she must keep from the people she loves the most if she is to stand against the murderous forces that threaten Kruger, her new friends, and her own life. But will taking a stand do more harm than good?

Indian Short Stories,1900-2000

Author : I. Vi Rāmakr̥ṣṇan
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN 13 : 9788126010912
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Indian Short Stories,1900-2000 written by I. Vi Rāmakr̥ṣṇan and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forty Three Stories From Twenty One Languages Anthologised Here Reflect The Diversity And Complexity Of Life Lived In India. From The Violence And Mass Hysteria Of The Partition To The Supressed Rage And The Gnawing Self-Pity Of Individuals Trapped In Broken HomesýThese Stories Capture The Outer And The Inner Lives Of Indian Society. The Sacred And The Profane, The Elite And Subaltern Meet In Many-Layered Narratives In These Stories, Providing Us Metaphors To Visualize Ourselves. These Stories Map An Eventful Century During Which Our Country Emerged Into A Nation. The Images Gathered Here From The Haunted Interiors Of The Twentieth Century Are Both Disquieting And Illuminating.

In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country

Author : John Tinney McCutcheon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country written by John Tinney McCutcheon and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Presbyterian Survey

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Presbyterian Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Many Mahābhāratas

Author : Nell Shapiro Hawley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438482426
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Many Mahābhāratas written by Nell Shapiro Hawley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in nearly everything else in Hindu mythology, philosophy, and story literature. The magnitude of its scope and the relentless complexity of its worldview primed the Mahābhārata for uncountable tellings in South Asia and beyond. For two thousand years, the instinctive approach to the Mahābhārata has been not to consume it but to create it anew. The many Mahābhāratas of this book come from the first century to the twenty-first. They are composed in nine different languages—Apabhramsha, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu. Early chapters illuminate themes of retelling within the Sanskrit Mahābhārata itself, demonstrating that the story's propensity for regeneration emerges from within. The majority of the book, however, reaches far beyond the Sanskrit epic. Readers dive into classical dramas, premodern vernacular poems, regional performance traditions, commentaries, graphic novels, political essays, novels, and contemporary theater productions—all of them Mahābhāratas. Because of its historical and linguistic breadth, its commitment to primary sources, and its exploration of multiplicity and diversity as essential features of the Mahābhārata's long life in South Asia, Many Mahābhāratas constitutes a major contribution to the study of South Asian literature and offers a landmark view of the field of Mahābhārata studies.

Seventeen trips through Somáliland

Author : H. G. C. Swayne
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Seventeen trips through Somáliland written by H. G. C. Swayne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the intervening years, between 1884 and 1893, professional duties necessitated my undertaking several journeys in Somáliland, with the object of exploration. In the intervals between these journeys, the author devoted his periods of leave to hunting in that country. During a period of nine years he undertook seventeen separate journeys to the interior, and so became familiar with the chief elements of interest to be found there. The author's principal object in writing this book is to present phases of life in nomadic North-East Africa, and to supply detailed information of a nature that might prove useful to travelers and sportsmen who wish to visit that country. As the author and his brother have always been pioneering, the men who have followed in our footsteps have naturally had better opportunities for sport than we had, and the author only gives such of my more successful sporting experiences as will assist me in my main object of giving a general portrait of the country.

Panchtantra Tales

Author : Narayana Pandit
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panchtantra Tales written by Narayana Pandit and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word ‘Panchatantra’ is a combination of two words, ‘Pancha’ (five) and ‘Tantra’ (practice/ principle). Panchantantra is ancient Indian fables, believed to have been composed in the 3rd century BC, by Pandit Vishnu Sharma.The purpose behind the composition was to implant moral values and governing skills in the young sons of the king. The Panchatantra is the best guide to enroot moral values in children since its each tale has a moral lesson in its end. The Panchtantra is a great book where plants and animals can speak and converse with human beings too.

Writers and Social Thought in Africa

Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317378628
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Writers and Social Thought in Africa written by Wale Adebanwi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, they have produced – and continue to produce – works which constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought, and for constructing social theory, in and beyond the continent. This comprehensive collection examines the relationship between African literature and African social thought. It explores the evolution and aesthetics of social thought in African fiction, and African writers’ conceptions of power and authority, legitimacy, history and modernity, gender and sexuality, culture, epistemology, globalization, and change and continuity in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle with Big Game Hunting Anecdotes

Author : F. G. Aflalo
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528761502
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle with Big Game Hunting Anecdotes written by F. G. Aflalo and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle with Big Game Hunting Anecdotes by Aflalo, F., G. Originally published in the early 1900s in London. A book of big game hunting and natural history anecdotes contributed by numerous well known sportsmen of that era. Exciting true stories from Africa, India, Asia and other wild places worldwide. Illustrated. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Read Country Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Calm Before Storm

Author : Rick TURNER
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465304541
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Calm Before Storm written by Rick TURNER and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has it all, travel, adventure, romance, comedy, drama, sex and speedway racing. It is a story about living our dream of traveling Australia and the world, at the same time pursuing our great sporting love, speedway. From our caravan travels through Northern New South Wales and Southern Queensland to the lush, green hills of the Emerald Isle, the historic ruins of Italy, the desert climes of Dubai, our visit to see our daughter in South Africa and to be there for the birth of our first grandchild. We had such an adventure. But, this was before the Global Financial Crisis and before the collapse of Townsville-based STORM Financial in whose hands we had trustfully placed our financial future. Little did we know what devastation lay ahead. Still, my story here, covers a much calmer time and will hopefully entice budding retirees to be a little adventurous when planning future travels. It was fun while it lasted.

Heu-Heu

Author : H Rider Haggard
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Heu-Heu written by H Rider Haggard and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heu-Heu is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard. Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances. Excerpt: "We did not reach the cave too soon, for as the boys scrambled into it after us the hail began to come down in earnest, and you fellows know, or at any rate have heard, what African hail can be, especially among the mountains of the Berg. I have known it to go through sheets of galvanized iron like rifle bullets, and really I believe that some of the stones which fell on this occasion would have pierced two of them put together, for they were as big as flints and jagged at that. If anybody had been caught in that particular storm on the open veldt without a wagon to creep under or a saddle to put over his head, I doubt whether he would have lived to see a clear sky again."

The World's Work

Author : Walter Hines Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The World's Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boys' Life

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.