Download or read book Trans Africa by Motorcycle a Father s Diary written by Lawrence Bransby and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people would regard it as irresponsible madness for a father to take his 17-year-old son, riding old and somewhat worn-out XT500 motorcycles, on a four-month ride across Africa. But Lawrence Bansby did. In this era of celebrity, fully-supported long-distance motorcycle journeys with 4X4s carrying spares, a camera crew, full medical kit and a great deal of money, Lawrence and his son Gareth set off on their old but bullet-proof XT500s, with a handful of spare parts and the three Michelin maps that cover Africa. The plan was to travel North from their home in Natal, South Africa then West through Zaire, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and, finally, across the Sahara through Algeria but it was not to be... wars in Sudan and Zaire, murders of Europeans in Algeria forced them further and further East until they found themselves in Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, with war-torn Sudan blocking their way to the West and the closed border of Egypt to the North...For all bikers who have embarked on long-distance adventures, those planning a trip of their own or the arm-chair traveller who always thinks, "What if..." this diary is a must: an amazing read - touching, interesting, exciting, filled with insight about the countries they travelled through and the people they met along the way. Unlike many travel diaries of this sort, however, Trans-Africa by Motorcycle - A Father's Diary is the account of a growing relationship between a father and son, of seeking adventure together despite the limitations of finance and equipment, of achieving that which, at heart, every father secretly wants to do with his son or daughter.This is an uplifting and inspiring book. And what is even more special is that, 15 years later, in 2011, Lawrence and Gareth completed another motorcycle journey together, this time into Russia - both still inspired with a love for motorcycles and long-distance adventure travel. This trip is captured in a similar way in Bransby's account Venture into Russia - Three Motorcycle Journeys, also available on Kindle. About the AuthorLawrence Bransby has taught English to both high and primary school children throughout his life, often taking his personal experience of working with young children and teenagers as the starting point of his novels - especially during the break-up of the hated Apartheid regime in South Africa when the all-white school he taught at became multi-racial.Of the eight teenage novels he has written, four have won literary prizes and one short-listed. Twice his novels were chosen by Book Chat as South African Children's Books of the Year (Homeward Bound and A Mountaintop Experience). Down Street, his first teenage novel, won the prestigious MER Prize for Youth Literature and The Boy who Counted to a Million won the seldom-awarded Percy Fitzpatrick Literary Prize. Bransby's writing includes novels both for teenagers and adults as well as travel diaries, begun when, in 1997, he crossed Africa with his 17-year-old son on old XT500 motorcycles. Since then, he has travelled by motorcycle to Russia three times (Venture into Russia), Albania (Albania by Motorcycle) and driven across part of the Western Sahara in an old Ford Fiesta (Plymouth-Dakar/Banjul Old Bangers Challenge).He now lives in Paignton, Devon, and keeps himself fit kayaking, cycling and, whenever possible, travelling on his motorcycle to remote places.
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Download or read book Tales from the Road written by Lawrence Bransby and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five and a half decades of adventure travel, mostly on a bike, often alone. "Tales from the Road" is a compilation of the best of Bransby's writing.If you are toying with the idea of embarking on an adventurous journey, preferably on a motorcycle, be warned: your comfortable lifestyle will, in all probability, be disrupted by this book. If you are a couch traveller, enjoying the exploits of others from the comfort of your living room, be prepared for exciting and challenging tales that will take you from the Russian White Sea coast where "Killer" the Black Bears' fixer shows the blood on his hands to high, snow-covered passes of the Pamir Mountains and an abandoned bike; from the Ho Chi Min trail of Vietnam to soft-sand desert crossings in Morocco and Mauritania; from the Simian Mountains of Ethiopia to the far north of Canada and an accident just north of the Arctic Circle; from the Road of Bones in far eastern Siberia to a 14-year-old bicycling through lion country in the Gorongossa Game Reserve in far northern Mocambique to crossing a section of the western Sahara in an old Ford Fiesta...Lawrence Bransby's love of adventure travel probably began when, at the age of twelve, his father suggested a "walk" from Durban in South Africa to Lourenco Marques in Mocambique. Then followed a trans-Africa journey with his 17-year-old son on old XT500s...Bransby has written ten travelogues that cover journeys across Russia, Central Asia, Morocco, Vietnam and Africa. "These books are the sole reason I started riding bikes," one reader wrote."Tales from the Road" is a selection of 27 articles and excerpts, many of them published in adventure motorcycle magazines, and collects them into one handy book, a cornucopia of adventure stories and reflections from the long, hard road that have taken him to places most would-be adventurers can only dream of.
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Download or read book Jupiter s Travels written by Ted Simon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way Round In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. Through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune, he travelled into the depths of fear and reached the heights of euphoria. He met astonishing people and was treated as a spy, a welcome stranger and even a god. For Simon the trip became a journey into his own soul, and for many others - including bikers Charley Boorman and Ewan McGrergor - it provides an inspiration they will never forget. This classic text, which has informed a whole genre of travel writing in the thirty years since it was first published, will never be bettered for sheer adventure, passion, humour and honesty. Brought up in England by a German mother and a Romanian father, Ted Simon found himself impelled by an insatiable desire to explore the world. It led him to abandon an early scientific career in favour of journalism, and he has worked for several newspapers and magazines on Fleet Street and elsewhere. Ted Simon is also the author of Riding Home and The Gypsy in Me.
Download or read book Of Roosters Dogs and Cardboard Boxes written by Lawrence Bransby and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving account of Siyabonga, a young Xhosa boy, who leaves his home in the Transkei to travel on foot to look for work in town, Lawrence Bransby explores the tragic problem of unemployment and poverty in South Africa.Siyabonga's father has left his farm in the Transkei to work on the Gauteng gold mines so that he can, like thousands of other black men, earn money to feed his family. All seems well for a while. Then, one month, the money stops coming. Siyabonga, 14 years old, decides that it is time for him to assume the role of bread-winner. "I am a man now," he tells his mother. "I will get a job and send you money for food..." But the reality in a cold and impersonal town, he discovers, is very different from being a schoolboy under the careful eye of his teacher, Mrs Shabalala. In his quest for work, he discovers much about himself and others; he finds friendship and kindness amongst the trauma of being a young black boy looking for work in a country where more than half the population are jobless.One of Lawrence Bransby's critically acclaimed teenage novels:'Bransby's novels are typical of the best modern South African youth novels...' Elwyn Jenkins "Children of the Sun""Bransby's understanding of this age group is delightfully, and often sadly, spot on..." J.Rosenthal Weekly MailAbout the AuthorLawrence Bransby has taught English to both high and primary school children throughout his life, often taking his personal experience of working with young children and teenagers as the starting point of his novels - especially during the break-up of the hated Apartheid regime in South Africa when the all-white school he taught at became multi-racial. He later moved to the UK and taught at a school in Devon.Of the eight teenage novels he has written, four have won literary prizes and one short-listed. Twice his novels were chosen by Book Chat as South African Children's Books of the Year (Homeward Bound and A Mountaintop Experience). Down Street, his first teenage novel, won the prestigious MER Prize for Youth Literature and The Boy who Counted to a Million won the seldom-awarded Percy Fitzpatrick Literary Prize. Bransby's writing includes novels both for teenagers and adults as well as travel diaries, begun when, in 1997, he crossed Africa with his 17-year-old son on old XT500 motorcycles. His diary of this amazing journey is published as Trans-Africa by motorcycle - A Father's Diary. Since then, he has travelled by motorcycle to Russia three times (Venture into Russia), Albania (Albania by Motorcycle) and driven across part of the Western Sahara in an old Ford Fiesta (Plymouth-Dakar/Banjul Old Bangers Challenge). He has now retired from teaching and keeps himself fit kayaking, cycling and, whenever possible, travelling on his motorcycle to remote places.
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Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book The Fortney Encyclical Black History written by Albert Fortney Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclical Black History has been created for the critical and lack of vital Afro-Centric Multi-Curriculum text in urban school systems and is a necessity for African Americans. This book was created with careful and serious attention to biographical names that identifies history, culture as well as biblical characters. The reason why of this encyclical history can be explained with the facts and proof/evidence of the following. The point that has socio-psychological implications at the unconscious as well as the conscious level is the great little white racist lie, seen long enough, becomes the truth; like, portraying a white Jesus Christ who was a black man. Dr. Alvin Poussaint, a Black psychiatrist associated with Harvard University and others have observed and explained the most tragic part of all of this is that the African American has come to form his self image and self-concept on the basis of what white racists have laid down as a guide or prescribed. Therefore, black men and women learn quickly to hate themselves and each other more than their white oppressor. There is almost infinite evidence that racism has left almost irreparable scars on the psyche of Afro-Americans that burden with an unrelenting, painful anxiety that drives the psyche to reach out for a sense of identity and self-esteem. Poussaint and others say that black children, especially learn to hate themselves at very early ages. Studies reveal their preference for white dolls over black ones. One study reported that black children in their drawings tend to show blacks as small, incomplete people and whites as strong and powerful. To conclude, in western color symbolism white is positive and black negative. Many people might ask why the contributions of Africa should be included in American curriculum? Is because they bleach and still rob black history and culture with black pictured as white that lie, leaves us mentally-dead, angry, and without purpose, of where we are going! Human culture is the product of all humanity, not the possession of a single racial or ethnic group. Afro-centric Multicultural educations major aim is to close the gap between Western ideals of equality, justice and practices that contradict these ideas. Stereotype people of color and people who are poor have just about no opportunities to become free of perspectives that are monoculture, that devalue African culture victimize them mostly having an inability to fully, function effectively in society. Many of these problems could be miraculously remedied with astonishing results if explained of black scientific achievements, which occurred in black Africa. There are also white African Americans living in the U.S.A. besides black African Americans, should make the distinction. Carl Sandburg (1979) related a dialogue between a white American and an American Indian which illustrates the need for multicultural education: The white man drew a small circle in the sand and told the red man, This is what the Indian knows, and drawing a big circle around the small one, this is what is what the white man knows. The Indian then took the stick and swept an immensely big ring around both circles and said, this is where the white man and the red man knows nothing.
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Download or read book A Companion to Public History written by David M. Dean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative overview of the developing field of public history reflecting theory and practice around the globe This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its relationship with popular history, and the ways in which the field has evolved internationally over the past thirty years. Comprised of thirty-four essays written by a group of leading international scholars and public history practitioners, the work not only introduces readers to the latest scholarly academic research, but also to the practice and pedagogy of public history. It pays equal attention to the emergence of public history as a distinct field of historical inquiry in North America, the importance of popular history and ‘history from below’ in Europe and European colonial-settler states, and forms of historical consciousness in non-Western countries and peoples. It also provides a timely guide to the state of the discipline, and offers an innovative and unprecedented engagement with methodological and theoretical problems associated with public history. Generously illustrated throughout, The Companion to Public History’s chapters are written from a variety of perspectives by contributors from all continents and from a wide variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences. It is an excellent source for getting readers to think about history in the public realm, and how present day concerns shape the ways in which we engage with and represent the past. Cutting-edge companion volume for a developing area of study Comprises 36 essays by leading authorities on all aspects of public history around the world Reflects different national/regional interpretations of public history Offers some essays in teachable forms: an interview, a roundtable discussion, a document analysis, a photo essay. Covers a full range of public history practice, including museums, archives, memorial sites as well as historical fiction, theatre, re-enactment societies and digital gaming Discusses the continuing challenges presented by history within our broad, collective memory, including museum controversies, repatriation issues, ‘textbook’ wars, and commissions for Truth and Reconciliation The Companion is intended for senior undergraduate students and graduate students in the rapidly growing field of public history and will appeal to those teaching public history or who wish to introduce a public history dimension to their courses.
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