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Lost Africa

Author : Cyril Christo
Publisher : Assouline Books & Gifts
ISBN 13 : 9782843236075
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Lost Africa written by Cyril Christo and published by Assouline Books & Gifts. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 'Prophecies', Leonardo Da Vinci once proclaimed, "All men will take refuge in Africa." What better place to re-create oneself than in that oldest of continents, the birthplace of the human race? It has been nearly thirty years since Cyril Christo first set foot in East Africa, and climbed its highest peak, Mount Killimanjaro, Tanzania. Years later, he went back with his wife, Marie Wilkinson, and today, he continues with faith, determination, and sadness to document the disappearance of the essence of Africa, land of space, nature and animals. With penetrating black and white images and a lyrically evocative essay, Lost Africa is a tribute to the beauty of this huge continent and a song for a timeless Africa. 80 b/w photos

I Lost My Tooth in Africa

Author : Penda Diakité
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439662260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book I Lost My Tooth in Africa written by Penda Diakité and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penda Diakité joins forces with her award-winning author/artist father to give a charming peek at everyday life in Africa. "This fact-based story of losing a tooth while visiting family in Mali rings with authenticity and good humour...[T]he illustrations exude happiness and togetherness." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

The Lost Cities of Africa

Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Cities of Africa written by Basil Davidson and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1959 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Egypt, Kush, Meroe, kingdoms of the Old Sudan, Ghana, Mali, Timbuktu, Songhay, the Sao and Kanem, Carthage, Benin, Zanj, Kalambo, Sheba, coastal trade, Axum, Ethiopia, Engaruka, Zimbabwe, Mapungubwe, Inyanga and Niekerk, medieval Rhodesia, the Azanians, the Phoenicians, Djenne, El Masudi, Gao, the Iron Age, Kenya, Kilwa, Khartoum, Malindi, Mombasa, Monomotapa, Mozambique, Ophir, Punt, the Portuguese and the slave trade, Sofala, and more.

The Lost Kingdoms of Africa

Author : Gus Casely-Hayford
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144648761X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Kingdoms of Africa written by Gus Casely-Hayford and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us the history of Africa is, at best, vague. We might think of Egyptian pyramids, legendary queens (of Sheba or Cleopatra) and Zulu warriors. The truth, however, is one of remarkably diverse, creative, culturally rich civilisations. In this book, which accompanies an 8-part BBC series, Gus Casely-Hayford takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of this remarkable continent. We will encounter archaeological sites of staggering beauty that rival the Great Wall of China, vast and ancient universities that predate Oxford and Cambridge, kingdoms of extraordinary wealth, artistic traditions that still inspire artists today, great religious sites that surpass the Vatican, and a country with more pyramids than Egypt. In recent years new archaeological and anthropological research has opened up the study of African history in ways previously unimaginable. Long-lost kingdoms are suddenly being brought back to life. Civilisations that had faded into myth are revealing their secrets. Using this latest research, Gus Casely-Hayford is able to tell the history of Africa's major kingdoms in an entirely new, colourful and richly-informed way. Accessible and inspiring, The Lost Kingdoms of Africa is both a major addition to our understanding of this oft-overlooked history and a source of genuine delight and wonder.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Lost in Africa

Author : Judy Katschke
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006144779X
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Lost in Africa written by Judy Katschke and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Track down Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and those crazy penguins as they set out from Madagascar to home, but end up in the African plains where they have the time of their lives!

Africa's Lost Classics

Author : Lizelle Bisschoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577387
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Africa's Lost Classics written by Lizelle Bisschoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade ago. In this accessible and lively collection of essays, Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy draw together the best scholarship on the diverse and fragmented strands of African film history. Their volume recovers over 30 'lost' African classic films from 1920-2010 in order to provide a more complex genealogy and begin to trace new histories of African filmmaking: from 1920s Egyptian melodramas through lost gems from apartheid South Africa to neglected works by great Francophone directors, the full diversity of African cinema will be revealed.

Lost Crops of Africa

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164435
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Crops of Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third in a series evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes 24 little-known indigenous African cultivated and wild fruits that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists, policymakers, and the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each fruit to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each fruit is also described in a separate chapter, based on information provided and assessed by experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume II African vegetables.

Lost Crops of Africa

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309176891
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Crops of Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-02-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes of starvation have drawn the world's attention to Africa's agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Yet there is an overlooked food resource in sub-Saharan Africa that has vast potential: native food plants. When experts were asked to nominate African food plants for inclusion in a new book, a list of 30 species grew quickly to hundreds. All in all, Africa has more than 2,000 native grains and fruitsâ€""lost" species due for rediscovery and exploitation. This volume focuses on native cereals, including: African rice, reserved until recently as a luxury food for religious rituals. Finger millet, neglected internationally although it is a staple for millions. Fonio (acha), probably the oldest African cereal and sometimes called "hungry rice." Pearl millet, a widely used grain that still holds great untapped potential. Sorghum, with prospects for making the twenty-first century the "century of sorghum." Tef, in many ways ideal but only now enjoying budding commercial production. Other cultivated and wild grains. This readable and engaging book dispels myths, often based on Western bias, about the nutritional value, flavor, and yield of these African grains. Designed as a tool for economic development, the volume is organized with increasing levels of detail to meet the needs of both lay and professional readers. The authors present the available information on where and how each grain is grown, harvested, and processed, and they list its benefits and limitations as a food source. The authors describe "next steps" for increasing the use of each grain, outline research needs, and address issues in building commercial production. Sidebars cover such interesting points as the potential use of gene mapping and other "high-tech" agricultural techniques on these grains. This fact-filled volume will be of great interest to agricultural experts, entrepreneurs, researchers, and individuals concerned about restoring food production, environmental health, and economic opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa. Selection, Newbridge Garden Book Club

Africa's Glorious Legacy

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809490257
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Africa's Glorious Legacy written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and civilization of Africa.

You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town

Author : Zoë Wicomb
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558612259
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town written by Zoë Wicomb and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."

From Africa to America

Author : Joseph Akol Makeer
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604621605
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book From Africa to America written by Joseph Akol Makeer and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent news media have exposed the horrific genocides in Rwanda, Darfur, and elsewhere, but little has been publicized about the unseen genocide committed by Muslims against millions of Christians in southern Sudan during the 1980s. From Africa to America: The Journey of a Lost Boy of Sudan provides a firsthand account of the atrocities caused by the same president and government committing genocide in Darfur today. Look through the eyes of one of the Lost Boys, a group of orphans who braved a dangerous trek through desert and jungle in order to flee the war-torn southern Sudan twenty years ago, as author Akol Makeer explains Sudanese cultural traditions and chronicles his life before and after the war. From Africa to America: The Journey of a Lost Boy of Sudan records years of human rights violations and bloodshed, the conversion of southern Sudanese from animism to Christianity during the war, the corruption of U.N. officials, and the sixteen-year journey of the Lost Boys from Sudan to Ethiopia, on to Kenya, and finally to religious and political freedom in America.

Lost Crops of Africa

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164540
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Crops of Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.

Africa Lost

Author : Dan Tharp
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466841184
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Africa Lost written by Dan Tharp and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US military veteran and historian Dan Tharp's Africa Lost tells the inside story of some of the greatest special operators you've never heard of. Some of the most explosive combat in Special Operations history is almost completely unknown to the Western World. Everyone knows about Navy SEALs and Green Berets but nobody knows about the deep recce, sabotage, and direct action missions conducted by the Rhodesian SAS. The Rhodesian Light Infantry was a killing machine, participating in combat jumps every night during the heat of the Bush War. The Selous Scouts were perhaps the most innovative and daring unconventional warfare unit in history which would pair white soldiers with turncoat black "former" terrorists who would then infiltrate enemy camps.

Out Of Africa

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443432954
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Out Of Africa written by Isak Dinesen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa, 1686

Author : Guy Tachard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa, 1686 written by Guy Tachard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ok-khun Chamnan, during his odyssey as part of the aborted embassy to Portugal, spent nearly a year in Goa, where he learnt Portuguese; a month travelling overland from Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa, to the Cape of Good Hope; four months at the Dutch settlement at the Cape; six months in Batavia; and several months at sea on this journey. On his return to Siam in 1687 he was ordered to greet the French envoys La Loubere and Ceberet soon after their arrival." "The adventures of this Siamese khunnang did not end with his unsuccessful journey to Lisbon. He went on to Europe in 1688, visited the Riviera and Rome in winter, met the pope, and then in 1689 had an audience with Louis XIV. He converted to Catholicism and returned from Europe in 1690, disembarking at Balassor in Bengal before returning to Ayutthaya overland from Mergui.".

In Predatory Light

Author : Cyril Christo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858946108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book In Predatory Light written by Cyril Christo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The regal lion, the magnificent tiger and the mighty polar bear are among the largest carnivores and most formidable predators on Earth. They live in diverse parts of the planet, but, threatened by the loss of their habitats, they all share an uncertain future. In Predatory Light is a superb tribute to the striking beauty of this trio of almost mythic creatures. Dramatic duotone images by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson capture the animals roaming their natural environments, revealing not only their awesome power, but also their vulnerability. The images are accompanied by the photographers' reminiscences of their expeditions to Africa, Asia and the Arctic, and by heartfelt responses by three nature writers to the plight of these majestic mammals. Simultaneously thought-provoking and captivating, In Predatory Light is the perfect book for anyone concerned about the conservation of endangered species.

The Lost Paradise

Author : Jonathan Glasser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022632737X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Paradise written by Jonathan Glasser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical music of postcolonial North Africa, its devotees continue to describe it as being in danger of disappearance. In The Lost Paradise, Jonathan Glasser explores the close connection between the paradox of patrimony and the questions of embodiment, genealogy, secrecy, and social class that have long been central to Andalusi musical practice. Through a historical and ethnographic account of the Andalusi music of Algiers, Tlemcen, and their Algerian and Moroccan borderlands since the end of the nineteenth century, Glasser shows how anxiety about Andalusi music’s disappearance has emerged from within the practice itself and come to be central to its ethos. The result is a sophisticated examination of musical survival and transformation that is also a meditation on temporality, labor, colonialism and nationalism, and the relationship of the living to the dead.