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Author: Melinda Atwood
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEscaping painful family circumstances, Melinda Atwood journeyed to Kenya, where she struggled to build a new life. Isolated and alone, she overcame financial deprivation, a disastrous love affair, and raising a son without family support. Told with honesty and wit, Atwood's is an inspirational story.
Author: Marguerite Helmers
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1443808237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collected essays that comprise The Traveling and Writing Self examine the critical relationship between the journey, the author of the travel narrative, and published and private texts. Contributors draw attention to the performed nature of the travel writer’s self, emphasizing that the carefully crafted persona of the traveler-protagonist is a fiction. The traveler’s identity is frequently in flux, negotiating between social convention, literary convention, personal motivations, and nationalist agendas. The Traveling and Writing Self is a notable addition to studies of travel writing because the contributors explore several genres in addition to the traditional accounts of the journey; these genres include histories of exploration, diaries, memoir, poetry, film, and short story. Not limited to a specific historical era or geographical location, individual chapters explore the work of Rebecca Solnit, Isak Dinesen, Melinda Atwood, William Byrd, E. J. Pratt, Beatrice Grimshaw, and Louisa May Alcott. From each, we learn that perhaps the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
Author: Meja Mwangi
Publisher: HM Books Intl.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0982012640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Griffin
Publisher: Dundurn.com
Published: 2006-03-02
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0887628265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1996, successful businessman and certified pilot, Scott Griffin, decided to break from the comfortable routine of his life to go work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors to remote areas to administer medical assistance. Griffin also made the daring decision to fly his small, single-engine Cessna 180 solo from Canada to Africa and back again. My Heart is Africa is the engaging, personal story of Griffin’s two-year aviation adventure throughout Africa. Facing storms, equipment problems, fuel shortages and isolation, Griffin successfully made his way to Kenya – little did he know, his harrowing flight over the Atlantic was only the beginning of his adventure. Once in Africa, Griffin circumnavigated the continent, flying over deserts, mountains and jungles both as a medical volunteer and tourist. Throughout his journey – which included being arrested and crashing, then re-crashing, his plane – Griffin discovered the heartrending humanity and beauty of Africa. My Heart is Africa is an absorbing adventure story, but it is also the story of Africa – its problems and people, its landscapes and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin’s intrepid flying odyssey not only takes the reader on a journey across Africa but into the lives of all the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way. My Heart is Africa is a fascinating and gripping account of one man’s quest to push beyond his personal limits in order to explore and experience a new way of life.
Author: Lutz Marten
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1317581989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColloquial Swahili is the ideal introduction to the major language of East Africa. Written by experienced teachers, the course provides a step-by-step approach to Swahili. No previous knowledge of the language is required.
Author: Rolf Ackermann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-07-22
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 3940808245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen young Margarete leaves Germany with her husband Ulrich in 1907, her long-cherished dream finally comes true: Africa! Arriving at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Ulrich and she set up a paradisiacal farm. But unlike Margarete, Ulrich does not feel at home in the colony of German East Africa. When she goes on safari, he remains uncomprehendingly behind. The Maasai revere her as Jeyo - mother. Only the Greek Anthimos shares her fascination for Africa. The two fall passionately in love with each other. Then, the First World War breaks out. Anthimos asks her to flee with him. But Margarete can no longer imagine a life out of Africa. Next, the dramatic events come to a head . . .
Author: Lutz Marten
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-27
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 113459769X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColloquial Swahili is the ideal introduction to the major language of East Africa. Written by experienced teachers, the course provides a step-by-step approach to Swahili. No previous knowledge of the language is required.
Author: Jo Paroz
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 141204961X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a 30-year career in New Mexico, it was time for a change, but what to do next? That was the dilemma. Jo was seeking something unknown and unnamed until she found her way to Africa, a place where she could live out her dream of adventure and travel. Remembering Africa: Moments in Time is the author's memoir of the two years she lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, while teaching at an International School with students and teachers from many different countries. Through her personal stories, she portrays both the humor and struggle of daily life in Dar and working at the International School there. She provides a window for the reader to share her travel adventures to the exotic island of Zanzibar, the Seychelles, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, and safari adventures into the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, etc. Jo was enchanted with the land and people of this amazing continent, and she recorded events from those memorable years in a journal. When she returned to the states, the memories of her life in Africa lingered and begged to be shared. Remembering Africa had to be written. The poem "Moments in Time", written by Jo, was inspired by her experiences while living and working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Author: D V Whytes
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2007-07
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1598863614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKD.V. Whytes weaves a trail of intrigue in "Prism Poison." While on an African cruise, the heroes find themselves amidst a group of fanatics who are intent on overpowering a diamond smuggling operation. Against threats to stop their meddling, the Greystones push forward to solve the mystery surrounding the clues left behind by an ex-military pilot. New adventures are found at every port of call along the East African Coast, and new and old murders emerge every step of the way. The author's presence in Mombasa on the day of the bombing in November of 2002 produces a surreal perspective to the reality of impending threats from terrorism. D.V. Whytes invites you to taste the excitement of travel in the suspense-filled "Prism Poison."
Author: Lisa J Shannon
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2010-04-06
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1580053467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLisa J. Shannon had a good life—a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened to the atrocities there—millions dead, women raped and tortured daily, and children dying in shocking numbers. Shannon felt called to do something. And she did. A Thousand Sisters is her inspiring memoir. She raised money to sponsor Congolese women, beginning with one solo 30-mile run, and then founded a national organization, Run for Congo Women. The book chronicles her journey to the Congo to meet the women her run sponsored, and shares their incredible stories. What begins as grassroots activism forces Shannon to confront herself and her life, and learn lessons of survival, fear, gratitude, and immense love from the women of Africa.
