Download or read book The Traveling and Writing Self written by Marguerite Helmers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Download or read book Grandma s Letters from Africa written by Linda K. Thomas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Thomas expected that when she grew old, she'd be a quaint little grandmathe kind that sits in a rocking chair and knits blankets for new grandbabies. But God and her husband had other ideas: Africa! This is Linda's story of her first four years working in Africa as a missionary. In this narrative, uniquely told through letters to her granddaughters, Linda shares how she stumbles into adventures most grandmas could not imaginea hippo charges her, a Maasai elder spits at her, and a baboon poops in her breakfast. As she faithfully answers Gods callingand its challengesshe recounts both hilarious and frightful incidents, joys and heartaches, answered prayers, and those God seemed to leave unanswered. While drinking tea from a pot cleaned with cows urine, suffering through an embarrassing breast exam, and narrowly escaping a carjacking by a murderer wielding an assault rifle, Linda falls in love with Africa, its people, and the work God presented her. Grandmas Letters from Africa is a chronicle of Gods heart, His delightful creativity, and His amazing power to help those in need.

Download or read book My Heart is Africa written by Scott Griffin and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

Download or read book Rsvp Rice and Stew Very Plenty written by Nazlin Rahemtulla with Marg Fairweather and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling autobiography chronicles the life of Nazlin Rahemtulla, an Ismaili Muslim. Nazlin vividly depicts the origins of Ismailism, and traces her ancestry to the Gujarat in western India. The migration of her grandparents and parents to Uganda follows. She then recounts her early life in Jinja against the backdrop of turbulent Ugandan politics, the rise to power of the barbaric Idi Amin, and the devastating ouster of her family and other Asians from their country. The re-location of Nazlin and her family to Canada; their triumphs and pitfalls in the New World; their dedication to Ismailism; Nazlin's career in Canadian business and finance; the complexities of reclaiming her family's Ugandan assets in the early 1990s; Nazlin's meeting with President Museveni of Uganda; her decision about whether or not to return to East Africa to rejuvenate her father's business; and her travels throughout the world with family and friends round out this enthralling saga....

Download or read book A Thousand Sisters written by Lisa J Shannon and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the organization Run for Congo Women describes her visit to Congo and recounts the extreme hardships and tragic events in the lives of the women she meets there.

Download or read book An Obama s Journey written by Mark Obama Ndesandjo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago. The book also offers the author's inspiring personal story about identity and multiculturalism. Rare family photos add to the book's personal nature as does the intense recounting of domestic violence in the home of Barack Obama Sr.’s and his third wife, Ruth Baker, Mark’s Jewish-American mother. The book also attempts to set the records straight on several points of the president’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father. In its connection to President Obama, Mark's story takes on an even greater significance because it becomes all the more directly, a story of American identity and a window into the complex figure of the father they share, Barack Obama Sr., their roots in Kenya, their multicultural identities, and their relationships with America.

Download or read book Colloquial Swahili eBook And MP3 Pack written by Lutz Marten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colloquial 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.

Download or read book The Gunny Sack written by Moyez Vassanji and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth First Novel Prize (Africa). The Gunny Sack follows the bizarre tale of an old and unremarkable bag and the life changing secrets within it. In exile from Tanzania, Salim Juma is given a gunny sack by his beloved, but strange, great-aunt. The bag takes him back to his childhood, when he was first mesmerised by the peculiar mementos inside. He soon begins to piece together the stories hidden within, only to discover the truth behind a fateful series of events that changed his family forever. The stories that follow stretch across four generations of Salim's family, tracing their footsteps and unravelling their loves, betrayals, and incredible misadventures. The Gunny Sack is an extraordinary chronicle into the experiences of Indian migrants in Africa as they struggled under changing power structures, from German invasions to British colonialism.

Download or read book Colloquial Swahili written by Lutz Marten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic, contemporary language Plenty of exercises Clear and concise grammar explanations Accompanied by audio material

Download or read book Rafiki Man Guitar written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafiki, an out-of-luck musician, turned bounty hunter and debt collector, volunteers to help a failing shopkeeper find his debtors and collect the money they owe him. However, the mile long list of loan defaulters comprises of the town's poorest residents, many of whom have changed their residences, their names and identities and gone underground. Others will not part with the goods they got on credit, and will defend them with their lives. Moreover, Rafiki's friends, and relatives are on the list, and so is the Chief, and he has the power to arrest and detain Rafiki without trial.

Download or read book Kwa Heri Means Goodbye written by Dorothy Stephens and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, when Dorothy Stephens and her husband lived in married student housing at the University of Michigan, she envisioned a safe, conventional life ahead. She never imagined living in Kenya toward the end of the Mau Mau uprising, plunged into an exotic new world, facing safari ants, wild bees, and a vicious monkey, and discovering a core of strength deep in her security-loving soul. See Kenya through her eyes in its last tumultuous days as a British colony and witness the transformative effect on her life. Meet the emerging young leaders of the independence movement and the fascinating women who became her friends. Travel to Murchison Falls in Uganda and to Ngorongoro Crater in Tanganyika. Accompany her, with her house servant and three young children, on a three-hundred-mile drive to the Kenya coast through desolate bush inhabited by big game, a trip that had a profound and lasting impact.

Download or read book Kenya National Assembly Official Record Hansard written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-03-12 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.

Download or read book U S Army Special Forces Language Visual Training Materials SWAHILI Plus Web Based Program and Chapter Audio Downloads written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now included at the end of the book is a link for a web-based program, PDFs and MP3 sound files for each chapter. Over 200 pages ... Developed by I Corps Foreign Language Training Center Fort Lewis, WA For the Special Operations Forces Language Office United States Special Operations Command LANGUAGE TRAINING The ability to speak a foreign language is a core unconventional warfare skill and is being incorporated throughout all phases of the qualification course. The students will receive their language assignment after the selection phase where they will receive a language starter kit that allows them to begin language training while waiting to return to Fort Bragg for Phase II. The 3rd Bn, 1st SWTG (A) is responsible for all language training at the USAJFKSWCS. The Special Operations Language Training (SOLT) is primarily a performance-oriented language course. Students are trained in one of ten core languages with enduring regional application and must show proficiency in speaking, listening and reading. A student receives language training throughout the Pipeline. In Phase IV, students attend an 8 or 14 week language blitz depending upon the language they are slotted in. The general purpose of the course is to provide each student with the ability to communicate in a foreign language. For successful completion of the course, the student must achieve at least a 1/1/1 or higher on the Defense Language Proficiency Test in two of the three graded areas; speaking, listening and reading. Table of Contents Introduction Introduction Lesson 1 People and Geography Lesson 2 Living and Working Lesson 3 Numbers, Dates, and Time Lesson 4 Daily Activities Lesson 5 Meeting the Family Lesson 6 Around Town Lesson 7 Shopping Lesson 8 Eating Out Lesson 9 Customs, and Courtesies in the Home Lesson 10 Around the House Lesson 11 Weather and Climate Lesson 12 Personal Appearance Lesson 13 Transportation Lesson 14 Travel Lesson 15 At School Lesson 16 Recreation and Leisure Lesson 17 Health and the Human Body Lesson 18 Political and International Topics in the News Lesson 19 The Military Lesson 20 Holidays and Traditions

Download or read book A Cup of Comfort For Christmas written by Colleen Sell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this inspiring collection are joyous reminders of what the holidays are all about. Written by people just like you, these uplifting stories celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. You and your family will be thoroughly entertained by the celebrations, merriment, and revelations that fill these pages. You will immediately feel the holiday spirit as you share in the moving experiences featured in this volume, such as: Five poor children pool their money from months of raking leaves, shoveling snow, and babysitting to buy their hardworking father an unexpected gift War-weary U.S. soldiers in Cambodia share holiday memories and goodie-boxes from home In sixty years of marriage, a husband never gets his wife the perfect gift . . . but she'll never tell, because he's the perfect husband A mall Santa who knows American Sign Language brings joy to a deaf six-year-old There's no time like the holidays for the heartwarming stories found in A Cup of Comfort for Christmas!

Download or read book This Our Exile written by James Martin and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Jesuit combines spiritual writing, travel narrative, history, and humor to describe his time working with refugees in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

Download or read book A Treasury of Christmas Stories written by Adams Media and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Treasury of Christmas Stories is an uplifting collection of holiday tales from people just like you. You can read about the special gift that made a family’s Christmas or a mall Santa who learned sign language in order to bring holiday cheer to a little boy and enjoy their stories as you reflect on Christmas memories of your own. This wonderful collection celebrates the spirit of the holiday with one story for each of the twelve days of Christmas. Enjoy and happy holidays!

Download or read book Prism Poison written by D V Whytes and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D.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."