Download or read book Ramblings of a Life in Africa written by Anita Bunn and published by magic rabbit publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1988 Anita Bunn left South Africa for America to see how other people lived. It would be for 36 months, she told her mother. She returned 8 years later with her son and settled into a small cottage on a big farm in the middle of the Stellenbosch vineyards. With great gusto, she started a new chapter in her life, falling face first into gardening, animal husbandry, compost, art and raising a son solo with often hilarious results. Anita penned these tails in a local newspaper, writing passionately about self-sustainability, her relationship with her animals and soil which she lovingly tendered throughout her life. Recipes of traditional and not so traditional South African delicacies were thrown in with abandonment. Her articles overflowed with the smells and rhythms of her beloved South Africa. These articles became the backbone of her memoirs. Her son returned to his birthplace, America and the circle was completed. Ramblings of a life in Africa evokes the spirit of an independent woman determined to live life to its fullest extent, regardless. It is a candid tale of things that befall an ordinary life. Her tales are captured in her unique style with an easy narrative and colourful illustrations burst from the pages, each one a story on their own. · A down to the bone, honest rendition of life on a farm in South Africa. · A story of exploration into a myriad of diverse interests, including mushroom hunting, keeping animals for the table, gardening and cooking. · A joyous, colourful and expressive visual explosion of original art by the author, Anita Bunn

Download or read book Adventures in Africa written by Gianni Celati and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated Italian novelist and essayist Gianni Celati's book is both a travelogue in the European tradition and a trenchant meditation on what it means to be a tourist. Hailed as one of the best travelogues on African ever written and awarded the first Zerilli-Marimo prize,

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Download or read book St Croix River Road Ramblings written by Russell B. Hanson and published by Russell B. Hanson. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the backwoods by a 4th generation St Croix River Valley resident. Farm, hunting, local history, nostalgia laced with subtle humor and wit.

Download or read book Christian Theology and African Traditions written by Matthew Michael and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling work the evangelical theologian Matthew Michael sets out to reveal the unique nature of African Christianity and understand Christian theology in the context of the African worldview and traditions which have given African Christianityits unique religious stamp. Michael addresses the crucial obligation of Christianity to engage with African culture as a prerequisite to transforming African theology. He points out that a major flaw of Western missionary Christianisation was its failureto engage with African traditions, as a meaningful and vigorous Christianity cannot flourish within the African context without serious engagement with these traditions. Michael re-interprets traditional Christian doctrine, with careful consideration of Scripture, to best engage modern African understanding. His exploration of African Christianity goes beyond the classical Western experience and interpretations of Christian dogmas found in the works of Augustine, Aquinas, and Western missionaries, and reclaims the rich and ancient heritage of Christianity in Africa, a heritage so venerable and pervasive that it is as much African as Western. This thought-provoking work reveals Michael's maturing theological reflections upon the crucial subject of Christian Systematic Theology in the African context, and will be of great interest to any individual interested in the dynamic field of African theology.

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Download or read book British Autobiographies written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

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Download or read book The Last of the African Kings written by Maryse Condä and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African family's saga, from the day its ancestors left for the New World, to the day their descendants return in search of roots. By a Guadeloupean writer, author of Segu.

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Download or read book Copper Sun written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) In this “searing work of historical fiction” (Booklist), Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon M. Draper tells the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ever known—except hope. Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village, it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an instant. But that was what happened when her village was invaded by slave traders. Her family was brutally murdered as she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present". Now, survival is all Amari can dream about. As she struggles to hold on to her memories, she also begins to learn English and make friends with a white indentured servant named Molly. When an opportunity to escape presents itself, Amari and Molly seize it, fleeing South to the Spanish colony in Florida at Fort Mose. Along the way, their strength is tested like never before as they struggle against hunger, cold, wild animals, hurricanes, and people eager to turn them in for reward money. The hope of a new life is all that keeps them going, but Florida feels so far away and sometimes Amari wonders how far hopes and dreams can really take her.

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Download or read book THESE VAGABOND SHOES the Ramblings of a Lost Soul written by Steven James Foreman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These Vagabond Shoes - The Ramblings of a Lost Soul" is the story of an amateur adventurer and his journey through life's "complicated maze." It is the rambling and twisting account of a series of career moves, adventures, and escapades, told in a mish-mash of essays and philosophical observations, which takes the reader from the English woodlands of the narrator's childhood to the dangerous world of anti-poaching patrols in Africa. It is at turns humorous, tragic, ridiculous, exciting and sad... but above all it is honest.

Download or read book Dear Sam written by Janet Torge and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 14, 2004, Janet Torge learns that her dynamic twenty-five-year-old son, Sam Lazarus, has contracted cerebral malaria and died while on a dream adventure to Africa. Janet is suddenly plunged into a nightmare but is determined to deal with her despair in a very unique way. She begins writing letters to cope with the horror of her loss and to chronicle the farewell journey that must inevitably follow. Like many grieving parents, Janet writes to capture her heartache. But Sam's early physical challenges forged a powerful bond between mother and son, and Janet is able to imagine the world from Sam's perspective. She creates responses to her letters that not only describe Sam's own journey but also provide words of comfort to an anguished mother. The result is a heartfelt and poignant goodbye unlike any other. Counselors and books can comfort and advise, but only a grieving parent can fully understand the hell of losing a child. With intimacy, humour, and honesty, this memoir illuminates the darkness that follows the death of a loved one.

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