Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Peru written by Charles Brand and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British naval officer's evocative account of a stormy winter crossing of the Andes he made by mule and by foot in 1827. Brand travelled to Peru via Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. His journal comments on Rio's slave market (pp 12-15), the botanical gardens and social life (including a detailed description of the imperial family), Pampa Indians, ladies of Santiago de Chile and Lima, a bullfight at Mendoza, the black washerwomen of Buenos Aires, South American houses, etc. He also visited the Juan Fernandez islands. The appendix comprises detailed climatic observations and critical observations and critical reports of Andean posthouses.

Download or read book The Setting Sun and the Rolling World written by Charles Mungoshi and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving and provocative short stories that explore the strained relations between parent and child, husband an wife, brothers, and friends, as traditional values of rural Africa clash with ambitions of urban life.

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Download or read book African Laughter written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1993 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British author Lessing recounts visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, 25 years after her exile from old Southern Rhodesia for opposing the minority white government. "(Lessing's) insight into and sympathy for human beings of both races and all conditions is persuasive and affecting".--The New Yorker.

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Download or read book Fifteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific written by United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs and published by United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of this conference was to provide a regional forum where government officials, planners, scientists and experts from Asia and the Pacific could meet to exchange ideas and information and to address the common needs, problems and experiences in the field of cartography and geographical information including educational and training aspects, scientific and technical requirements, implementation issues and benefits. This report covers the work of the committees, resolutions adopted by the conference, the provisional agenda for the sixteenth conference and lists of documents and participants.