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Still a Pygmy

Author : Isaac Bacirongo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925048421
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Still a Pygmy written by Isaac Bacirongo and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still a Pygmy is a story of love, pride and prejudice that traces the journey of BaTembo Pygmy Isaac Bacirongo from the forests of Central Africa, through the brutality of dictatorship and war, to arrival and settlement in Australia's melting pot. Isaac's inimitable style and voice draw readers into the heart of this memoir, his relationship with his wife, who survived his mother's attempts to kill her and who helped Isaac through experiences of appalling violence. It is full of warmth, wit and wise insights about life -especially family life and child-rearing. Isaac Bacirongo grew up as a Pygmy hunter-gatherer in the Congo. However, when his Papa left the forest to find work, Isaac went to missionary school, where he fell in love with scientific reason and rejected his mission teachings. He courted and wed Josephine, a 'town girl', whom his mother hated. Complaining that her new daughter-in-law would not be able to catch crabs or collect firewood, she engaged a witchdoctor in an attempt to kill her. Isaac and Josephine moved to the city, and he became a prosperous businessman. Isaac become a community leader involved in the fight for Pygmy rights, but he was imprisoned for his activism by the brutal regime that controls Eastern Congo. He bribed his way out of jail and fled to Kenya with his wife and 10 children in 2000. there he becomes an interpreter on a corruption investigation into the UNHCR. Granted a humanitarian visa, the family resettled as refugees in Sydney, but life started to unravel under the pressure of domestic violence, his children's assimilation and an Australian workplace that tested Isaac's African values. Although this memoir is Isaac's personal story, unique in its perspective on life as a Pygmy, it is also a universal story about the tragedies and challenges faced by many refugees and migrants, and their indomitable spirit they display in rising above challenges and confronting change to touch and transform the new communities they join.

Still a Pygmy

Author : Isaac Bacirongo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925048384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Still a Pygmy written by Isaac Bacirongo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Still a Pygmy' is a story of love, pride and prejudice that traces the journey of BaTembo Pygmy Isaac Bacirongo from the forests of Central Africa, through the brutality of dictatorship and war, to arrival and settlement in Australia's melting pot.

Pygmy

Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 030737372X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Pygmy written by Chuck Palahniuk and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of a xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.

What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?

Author : Robert E. Wells
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807593540
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? written by Robert E. Wells and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pygmy shrew is small—it's among the littlest mammals! A ladybug is even smaller, but it hardly seems tiny when you compare it to a protozoa! And there are many things smaller still—so small that we can see them only with a microscope. Would you believe there are particles that are so tiny that we can't measure their exact size? Explore the huge world of the very small!

Forest of the Pygmies

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : Rayo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forest of the Pygmies written by Isabel Allende and published by Rayo. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.

The Tallest Pygmy

Author : Mark Giannini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615451084
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Tallest Pygmy written by Mark Giannini and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tallest Pygmy is my attempt to help the legions of CEOsand senior executives I may never meet by sharing my observations,expertise, and wisdom gleaned in the trenches. I do so inthe hope that you won't fall into the same business traps causedby IT departments that cannot, or simply will not, keep abreast ofthe rapid pace of technological change and innovation.This book serves as a friendly caution: If you, as a CEO, don'tembrace and leverage IT for your competitive advantage, you willfind yourself losing more and more deals and clients and youwill not know why.

Children of the Forest

Author : Kevin Duffy
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478608587
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Forest written by Kevin Duffy and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1995-12-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate study portrays the hunter-gatherer Mbuti pygmies of Zaire. Kevin Duffy describes how these forest nomads, who are as adapted to the forest as its wildlife, gratefully acknowledge their beloved home as the source of everything they need: food, clothing, shelter, and affection. Looking on the forest in deified terms, they sing and pray to it and call themselves its children. With his patience and knowledge of their ways, Duffy was accepted by these, the worlds smallest people, and invited to participate in the cycle of their lives from birth to death.

Pygmy Kitabu

Author : Jean Pierre Hallet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Pygmy Kitabu written by Jean Pierre Hallet and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bad Bella

Author : Ali Standish
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062893270
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Bad Bella written by Ali Standish and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bella, Bella, Bella! A wonderful, funny, heartfelt tale of a very good ‘bad’ dog, and her enduring quest for that thing we all seek: a place to call home. I loved this book! I love Bella!” —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain Perfect for fans of Racing in the Rain and Because of Winn Dixie! Ali Standish, author of the critically acclaimed The Ethan I Was Before and August Isle, delivers a rebarkable tale of one extraordinary pup’s search for a new family, inspired by her real-life rescue dog Bella. Bella is the very best dog a family could ask for. Only her family, the McBrides, don’t see it that way. Ever since Mrs. McBride’s belly started growing, they don’t seem to appreciate the way Bella cleans the crumbs from the kitchen floor or how she’s always willing to play fetch after a long day. And when Bella’s valiant attempt to save the Christmas tree ends in disaster, she finds herself being swiftly abandoned at the pound. As the reality sinks in that she is unwanted, Bella is heartbroken. Where did she go wrong? Things look bleak until a kind couple, the Roses, take Bella in. Her new life is filled with wonderful things like parks and snowballs, vanilla ice cream, and the National Geographic Channel. But as the weather turns cold again, the Roses start acting strangely and Bella wonders if she can really trust them. Do they actually love her, or is history about to repeat itself? And will Bella be able to find a true home in time for Christmas this year?

The Truth About Bears

Author : Maxwell Eaton, III
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250306221
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Truth About Bears written by Maxwell Eaton, III and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxwell Eaton III's The Truth About Bears is a lighthearted nonfiction picture book, filled with useful facts about bears that will make you laugh so hard you won’t even realize you’re learning something!

The Forest People

Author : Colin Turnbull
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473524172
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Forest People written by Colin Turnbull and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology. For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of the African Congo, experiencing their daily life first-hand. He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs. He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend. A ground-breaking work in its time, The Forest People made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. With a new foreword by Horatio Clare.

Pygmy Goats

Author : Lorrie Boldrick
Publisher : All Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780962453137
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Pygmy Goats written by Lorrie Boldrick and published by All Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ota

Author : Phillips Verner Bradford
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 9780385311052
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Ota written by Phillips Verner Bradford and published by Delta. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how, in 1906, a missionary in Africa brought Benga to the United States and placed him on display at the World's Fair

Our Kind

Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060919900
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Our Kind written by Marvin Harris and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1990-09-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.

Wild Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pygmies Were Our Compass

Author : Kairn A. Klieman
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Pygmies Were Our Compass written by Kairn A. Klieman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. It is the first historical work to reconstruct a Batwa or Pygmy past, thereby questioning Western epistemologies that have long portrayed the Batwa as a quintessential people without history.

Song from the Forest

Author : Louis Sarno
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595347496
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Song from the Forest written by Louis Sarno and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some funding from musician Brian Eno, he followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rain forest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and gatherers. Nothing could have prepared him for life among the Pygmies, a people legendary for their short stature and musical wealth. Sarno never left. Considered outwardly lazy by some, scrounging, and near alcoholic, the Pygmies Sarno met had seemingly lost all desire to hunt or make music. Only after he had lived with them for some time (on a diet of tadpoles) was he allowed to join them in the rain forest where they still in relative harmony with nature. There Sarno experienced the extraordinary beauty and spiritual sophistication of their culture and the supreme importance of music as the principal means by which they communicate with the rain forest and its magical spirits. Over the decades Sarno has recorded more than 1,000 hours of unique Bayaka music. He is a fully accepted member of the Bayaka society and married a Bayaka woman. Permanently changed by his experience and captivated by a Bayaka culture, In Song from the Forest Sarno has chronicled his attempt to protect the fragile existence of the Pygmies in an increasingly destructive world. Once, when his son, Samedi, became seriously ill and Sarno feared for his life, he held his son in his arms through a frightful night and made him a promise: “If you get through this, one day I’ll show you the world I come from.” Now the time has come to fulfill his promise. In a new major documentary film, Sarno tells the story of the Bayaka as he travels with Samedi from the African rain forest to another jungle, one of concrete, glass, and asphalt: New York City. Together, they meet Louis’ family and old friends, including his closest friend from college, Jim Jarmusch. Carried by the contrasts between rainforest and urban America, and a fascinating soundtrack, Louis‘ and Samedi‘s stories are interwoven to form a touching portrait of an extraordinary man and his son. SONG FROM THE FOREST is a modern epic film set between rainforest and skyscrapers.