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Book Synopsis Forest of the Pygmies by : Isabel Allende
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.
Book Synopsis The Pygmies and Other Stories by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book The Pygmies and Other Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1853* with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pygmies and Other Stories by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book The Pygmies and Other Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Song from the Forest by : Louis Sarno
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.
Book Synopsis The Pygmies by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book The Pygmies written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pygmies" is a short story written by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is part of his collection of short stories titled "Tanglewood Tales," which was first published in 1853. In "The Pygmies," Hawthorne retells a classic Greek myth about the adventures of Hercules and his encounters with a tribe of Pygmies. The story is an adaptation of the original myth from Greek mythology. Hawthorne's version is written in a style suitable for younger readers and is known for its moral and allegorical elements. It explores themes of courage, strength, and the challenges of facing the unknown. Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales" is a collection of stories that adapt and retell classic myths and legends from various cultures. These stories are often aimed at a younger audience and provide moral lessons and entertainment through their imaginative narratives.
Book Synopsis Pygmy Kitabu by : Jean Pierre Hallet
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:
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.
Book Synopsis African Pygmies by : Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Download or read book African Pygmies written by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King of the Pygmies by : Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Download or read book King of the Pygmies written by Jonathon Scott Fuqua and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After hearing what he believes are other peoples' thoughts and learning that he may have schizophrenia, high school sophomore Penn has to decide whether to accept the diagnosis.
Book Synopsis The Pygmies Were Our Compass by : Kairn A. Klieman
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.
Download or read book Efe Pygmies written by and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through this book's photography and text, the world can now discover a way of life that has remained intact for thousands of years deep within the reaches of the Ituri rain forest. This volume reflects the seasonally based life of the Efe: boys and men at hunt, family life in the camps, dancing and music making, and bark and body painting.
Book Synopsis Blood and Water and Other Stories by : Patrick Mcgrath
Download or read book Blood and Water and Other Stories written by Patrick Mcgrath and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, dying explorer from the Congo at the bottom of her back garden; a night-club is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand; and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiance Cecil horribly transformed...
Book Synopsis Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. This book was released on 1881 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Armenian folktale about two robbers courting the same girl.
Book Synopsis I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen by : Jasper McCutcheon
Download or read book I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen written by Jasper McCutcheon and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What evil awaits Captain Henry Mitchell on the island below? A US Navy fighter pilot, he's forced to abandon his plane and parachute down into a rainforest canopy. He is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female, Caucasian westerner like himself, who subjects him to unholy tortures both painful and erotic. She believes he's come to take her secrets - but what are these secrets, and how can a man deal with being tortured for answers to something he knows nothing about?
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.
Book Synopsis The Masque of Africa by : V. S. Naipaul
Download or read book The Masque of Africa written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.
Book Synopsis Children of the Forest by : Kevin Duffy
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.
