Download or read book African Horn Adventure written by Mykola Polonskyi and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, Mykola Polonskyi is a young Ukrainian translator serving the Soviet army. Fascinated by his reading on the adventures of explorers in exotic African lands, he seizes the opportunity to leave for the Soviet Military Mission in Ethiopia. Soon enough, Mykola finds himself in the heart of the African horn, at the height of the Cold War, and in the middle of the Ethiopian civil war. Everyday life is difficult, and survival endangered by the mysteries hiding in the jungle and the threats of attacks from separatist troops and bandits. This is a first-hand account of the USSR’s political and military machine, enriched by anecdotes about rare animal and human fauna: sleepy hippos and obnoxious officials, dangerous pythons and fickle generals. After obtaining the Diploma of Translator/Teacher of English at Kharkiv State University (Ukraine), Mykola Polonskyi joined the Naval Aviation of the Northern Fleet. During the height of Cold War, he was serving as a translator and teacher in the Soviet Military Missions in Ethiopia and Libya. In 1996, he obtained the MPA degree at Indiana University, devoted himself to public life, and started working as public servant, University lecturer and policy expert in good governance. In 2012, he joined the list of UNDP International Experts in Local Governance and Local Development. Since 2015, he has been working as Governance Adviser in Eastern Ukraine. He is the author of several publications for the UNDP, and publications in Linguistics and Local Governance. His latest books are: in Ukrainian—Таджура (2006); Напередодні інтервенції (2020); Східний експрес 95 (2020); in Russian—Закат древней империи (2012); in English—Cold War in a Hot Place (2015, co-authored with Randall Baker).
Download or read book Horn of Africa written by Philip Caputo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.
Download or read book The Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage written by Ian Cutler and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined events of the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the first transcontinental railroad opening in 1869, and the financial crash of 1873, found large numbers—including thousands of former soldiers well used to an outdoor life and tramping—thrown into a transient life and forced to roam the continent, surviving on whatever resources came to hand. For most, the life of the hobo was born out of necessity. For a few it became a lifestyle choice. Some of the latter group committed their adventures to print, both autobiographical and fictional, and together with their British and Irish counterparts, whose wanderlust was fueled by an altogether different genesis, they account for the fifteen tramp writers whose stories and ideas are the subject of this book. The lives of some, like Jack Everson, Jack Black and Tom Kromer, are told in a single volume, others, like Morley Roberts and Stephen Graham, have eighty and fifty published works to their credit respectively. Some remain completely unknown and their books are long since out of print, others, like Trader Horn and Jim Tully, were Hollywood celebrities. Others yet, such as Black, Tulley, Horn, Bart Kennedy, Leon Ray Livingstone, and Jack London, had their stories immortalized in film.
Download or read book Death in the Long Grass written by Peter Hathaway Capstick and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1978-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer. Based on Capstick’s own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grassportrays the great killers of the African bush—not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world—underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.
Download or read book Horn of the Hunter written by Robert C. Ruark and published by Safari Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari in East Africa in the 1950s. Ruark's philosophies are intertwined in the hunting stories to make unforgettable reading.
Download or read book H M Stanley s Wonderful Adventures in Africa written by J. T. Headley and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Adventures and Misadventures written by William York and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill York, who recently passed away, once said, “Most guiding for big game is pretty unadventuresome work.” However, when there is excitement, it comes in spades, and Bill York had his share of unusual encounters. From his early days in Kenya when he and a companion trekked alone through the desert of the NFD and had to fend off marauding lions that ate his caravan ponies to encountering a Mau Mau terrorist who took potshots at his victims with a stolen elephant gun, York gives an entertaining account of his life. York was there when the RAF bombed the rain forest to rid Kenya of the dreaded Mau Mau, and he explains how the bombing went awry—very few Mau Mau were killed but plenty of wounded and dangerously short-tempered buffalo were left to wreck havoc in the countryside. He gives an insider’s view to the funny and outrageous behavior of some his famous acquaintances--Eric Rundgren, Ken Dawson, Frank Broadbent, and Iodine Ionides. PH Eric Rundgren, for example, was so interested in getting himself good elephant tusks that he would scout out the best tuskers for himself and guide his clients to less desirable trophies! There are stories about how York found a cache of rhino and elephant ivory that J. A. Hunter had stashed before his death, and how John Boyes managed to exasperate British authorities with his dastardly deeds. There is an entire chapter on hunting giant forest hogs because Bill York spent a lot of time in their habitat, and there are encounters and adventures with crop-raiding elephant and ghost buffalo that could be seen but not killed. Then there is the story of a client who was so huge that York was not sure he could get the man a single trophy. As with York’s previous book, the pages are loaded with interesting anecdotes, fascinating tales, and well-written prose that give insight into East Africa and its more famous characters.
Download or read book The Young Yag ers Or A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa written by Томас Майн Рид and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Safari Adventures written by Thomas Walsh and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was pure serendipity that we went on an African safari, but we are forever grateful that we did. We combined a visit with my brother and sister-in-law, a doctor and nurse volunteering at a hospital in Uganda with a safari to Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania. Enjoy reading about what it was like to volunteer at a hospital in a small town in southwestern Uganda and the excitement and adventure of trekking mountain gorillas in Rwanda, camel rides in the rugged northern frontier of Kenya, safaris in the magical "Green Hills" of Africa in southeast Kenya, the lost world of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, the mysterious shifting sands of Tanzania, close encounters with wild animals on the Serengeti Plain and the iconic Great Wildebeest Migration. Meet the many different and interesting people we encountered on safari and learn about the fabulous eco-lodges we stayed at. Travel with us across East Africa in small planes and safari cars for the many wonderful experiences that made this the trip-of-a-lifetime for us and our friends.
Download or read book Stanley s Wonderful Adventures in Africa written by J. T. Headley and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camera Adventures in the African Wilds written by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa written by George Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa written by George Thompson and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1962 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vertical Ethiopia written by Majka Burhardt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What if the very country that claims the Cradle of Humanity is also the next Mecca for adventure: In March of 2007, four women traveled to northern Ethiopia to climb virgin sandstone towers in the Horn of Africa. They explored rock monoliths in a region that is best known for the drought and famine of the 1980s and was the site of one of the bloodiest massacres of the Derg. Vertical Ethiopia is the narrative of their journey. Told through a series of vignettes that reveal what it means to climb, to travel, and to explore, Vertical Ethiopia looks closely at the intersections between adventure and culture, history and opportunity, and sky and sandstone"--Amazon.
Download or read book Narratives and adventures of travellers in Africa With a map and numerous illustrations written by Charles WILLIAMS (Compiler.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures written by J. H. Patterson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. H. Patterson's book, 'The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures', is a gripping recount of the author's experiences with the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo during the construction of a railway bridge in East Africa. Patterson's narrative style is straightforward and detailed, immersing the reader in the dangerous and thrilling escapades in the African wilderness. The book not only serves as a thrilling adventure story but also sheds light on the challenges faced by European colonizers in Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Patterson's vivid descriptions of the landscape and his encounters with wildlife make this book a compelling and educational read for those interested in African history and wildlife conservation. Patterson's firsthand accounts offer a unique perspective on the relationship between humans and wildlife in a colonial setting, making this book a valuable addition to the literature on East African exploration.
