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Book Synopsis Bill Bryson's African Diary by : Bill Bryson
Download or read book Bill Bryson's African Diary written by Bill Bryson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The African Dream written by Che Guevara and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These African diaries--written when Che Guevara tried to help the people of the Congo throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism--afford a very personal insight into the thoughts and emotions of one of the 20th century's greatest revolutionary martyrs. of photos.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Antera Duke by : Stephen D. Behrendt
Download or read book The Diary of Antera Duke written by Stephen D. Behrendt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant. A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town, forty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now southeast Nigeria. His diary, written in trade English from 1785 to 1788, is a candid account of daily life in an African community at the height of Calabar's overseas commerce. It provides valuable information on Old Calabar's economic activity both with other African businessmen and with European ship captains who arrived to trade for slaves, produce, and provisions. This new edition of Antera's diary, the first in fifty years, draws on the latest scholarship to place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Duke's lifetime, explore the range of trades, from slaves to produce, in which he rose to prominence, and follow Antera on trading missions across an extensive commercial hinterland. The essays trace the settlement and development of the towns that comprised Old Calabar and survey the community's social and political structure, rivalries among families, sacrifices of slaves, and witchcraft ordeals. This edition reproduces Antera's original trade-English diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, along with extensive annotation. The Diary of Antera Duke furnishes a uniquely valuable source for the history of precolonial Nigeria and the Atlantic slave trade, and this new edition enriches our understanding of it.
Download or read book Che in Africa written by William Gálvez and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Che Guevara "disappeared" from Cuba in 1965 to lead a guerrilla mission to support a revolutionary movement in the Congo. Until recently, very little has been known of this mission which proved to be a disastrous failure. This book publishes extensive excerpts from Guevara's fascinating, and sometimes shockingly frank, diary of the Congo experience.
Book Synopsis Hiroshima Diary by : Michihiko Hachiya, M.D.
Download or read book Hiroshima Diary written by Michihiko Hachiya, M.D. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. His compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and who became a friend of Dr. Hachiya. In a new foreword, John Dower reflects on the enduring importance of the diary fifty years after the bombing.
Download or read book Africa Diary written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kenya Diary (1902-1906) by : Richard Meinertzhagen
Download or read book Kenya Diary (1902-1906) written by Richard Meinertzhagen and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bill Bryson's African Diary by : Bill Bryson
Download or read book Bill Bryson's African Diary written by Bill Bryson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body comes a travel diary documenting a visit to Kenya. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. In the early fall of 2002, famed travel writer Bill Bryson journeyed to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. He arrived with a set of mental images of Africa gleaned from television broadcasts of low-budget Jungle Jim movies in his Iowa childhood and a single viewing of the film version of Out of Africa. (Also with some worries about tropical diseases, insects, and large predators.) But the vibrant reality of Kenya and its people took over the second he deplaned in Nairobi, and this diary records Bill Bryson’s impressions of his trip with his inimitable trademark style of wry observation and curious insight. From the wrenching poverty of the Kibera slum in Nairobi to the meticulously manicured grounds of the Karen Blixen house and the human fossil riches of the National Museum, Bryson registers the striking contrasts of a postcolonial society in transition. He visits the astoundingly vast Great Rift Valley; undergoes the rigors of a teeth-rattling train journey to Mombasa and a hair-whitening flight through a vicious storm; and visits the refugee camps and the agricultural and economic projects where dedicated CARE professionals wage noble and dogged war against poverty, dislocation, and corruption. Though brief in compass and duration, Bill Bryson’s African Diary is rich in irreverent, poignant, and morally instructive observation. Like all of this author’s work, it can make the reader laugh, think, and especially, feel all at the same time.
Book Synopsis The Sarashina Diary by : Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Download or read book The Sarashina Diary written by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother; enthralled by fiction, she bore witness to the dangers of romantic fantasy as well as the enduring consolation of self-expression. This reader’s edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō’s acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use. This translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning, highlighting the author’s deep concern for Buddhist belief and practice and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose. The translators’ commentary offers insight into the author’s family and world, as well as the style, structure, and textual history of her work.
Download or read book Africa Diary written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Africa Travel Journal: A Prompted Diary to Record 50 Days of Memories and Experiences from Your African Journey Or Safari by : Live the Adventure Press
Download or read book Africa Travel Journal: A Prompted Diary to Record 50 Days of Memories and Experiences from Your African Journey Or Safari written by Live the Adventure Press and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Book Synopsis When They Came for Me by : John R. Schlapobersky
Download or read book When They Came for Me written by John R. Schlapobersky and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this memoir making it a vital historical document of its time and for our own. In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for survival. Those writings inform this exquisitely written book in which the author reflects on the singing of the condemned prisoners, the poetry, songs and texts that saw him through his ordeal, and its impact. This sense of hope through which he transformed his life guides his continuing work as a psychotherapist and his focus on the rehabilitation of others. “[T]hetale of an ordinary young man swept one day from his life into hell, testimony to the wickedness a political system let loose in its agents and, above all, an intimate account of how a man became a healer.”—Jonny Steinberg, Oxford University From the introduction: I was supposed to be a man by the time I turned 21, by anyone’s reckoning. By the apartheid regime’s reckoning, I was also old enough to be tortured. Looking back, I can recognize the boy I was. The eldest of my grandchildren is now approaching this age, and I would never want to see her or the others – or indeed anyone else – having to face any such ordeal. At the time my home was in Johannesburg, only some thirty miles from Pretoria, where I was thrown into a world that few would believe existed, populated by creatures from the darkest places, creatures of the night, some in uniform. I was there for fifty-five days, and never went home again.
Download or read book Lion written by Jonathan Scott and published by Collins. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to the successful Big Cat Diary television series, which goes beyond the day-to-day footage and explores the bigger picture: history, biology, behaviour, conservation and how lions survive outside the Masai Mara. As well as a detailed examination of biology and behaviour, the book provides an historical perspective of the big cat families featured in the series. The book also looks outside the Masai Mara Game Reserve, to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Ngorongoro Crater, and Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Finally there is the question of how to conserve our big cat populations. There could be as few as 15,000 lions left in Africa. How can we ensure they can maintain breeding populations, space to hunt and sufficient prey to survive?
Book Synopsis Africa Travel Journal: A Prompted Diary to Record 50 Days of Memories and Experiences from Your African Journey by : Live the Adventure Press
Download or read book Africa Travel Journal: A Prompted Diary to Record 50 Days of Memories and Experiences from Your African Journey written by Live the Adventure Press and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Book Synopsis Diary from a South African Prison by : Tshenuwani Simon Farisani
Download or read book Diary from a South African Prison written by Tshenuwani Simon Farisani and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is Tshenuwani Simon Farisani's harrowing account of the suffering inflicted on a single human being by the brutalities of apartheid. Farisani shows us the terror of torture, the fear of death, and the eventual victory of faith. "Here is a man of God, deeply committed to justice and peace, who has given himself in total solidarity with the struggle of his people to the cause of liberation in South Africa. Here is a Christian who has suffered the agonies of hell for the sake of his Lord, his calling as pastor, and his love for his people. Reading this autobiography is not only a priority but an absolute necessity." THE REV. DR. BEYERS NAUD (1915-2004) Former General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches TSHENUWANI SIMON FARISANI is Branch President of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Office and Speaker of the Provincial Legislature of the Parliamentary Office of Limpopo, South Africa. He was the Dean of the Devhula circuit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa, Northern Diocese, and imprisoned several times for his outspoken criticism of apartheid.
Book Synopsis African Visions by : Mirella Ricciardi
Download or read book African Visions written by Mirella Ricciardi and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirella Ricciardi is one of the greatest photographers of the African continent; she is also best known for the classic book Vanishing Africa. This highly personal account of her life in Africa from the1920s to the present day is part diary, part reminiscence, and part photographic album. She shows you the great African characters from George Adamson to Peter Beard, plus Hollywood stars, animal trainers, models and fashion photographers. However it's her greatest love--the tribal warriors and the panoramic landscapes of Africa--that take center stage here.
Book Synopsis Diary of an African Journey by : H. Rider Haggard
Download or read book Diary of an African Journey written by H. Rider Haggard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
