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You need to listen to this audiobook if you want to understand the backdrop of history that created the fertile soil for today’s homegrown terrorist group-Boko Haram-to literally spring up overnight and within half a dozen years bring the most populous country in Africa to the greatest crisis in its history. The story is told through the eyes of fortune seeking engineer Paul Jeffries-out to make millions on a state of the art telecommunications project in Nigeria-who must confront his own demons by agreeing to search for the American ambassador’s daughter, Maureen Cahill, who has fled the relative safety of the embassy in Lagos to the besieged and shrinking rebel enclave of Biafra to help refugees in the mid 1960’s civil war. The journey will take them both to the darkest and most dangerous mangrove infested corner of one of Africa’s bloodiest civil wars. The trek will test their commitment to aiding the country, their dreams for nation building, and their growing love for each other.

Young and naive, Kathleen Hill moves to newly independent Nigeria with her husband to teach at Igbobi College. It is the early 1960s, and Hill is soon caught up in the swirl of the times: The legacy of colonialism, chaos back in America, and violence and racism across the globe that touch even the quiet school where she teaches English literature. As a way of steadying and finding herself in this new place, she begins reading Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and there discovers disturbing resonances with her own life.

One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference?...

This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor's 20-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. At once adventurous, spiritual, political, dreamlike, and humorous, Joining Africa is a unique documentary of a journey through the continent, including an intense five-year encounter with economically struggling but culturally fertile Eritrea. The Africa presented here is neither a postcolonial study nor an exotic tourist destination.

An epic journey through Africa by a man who fell in love with a magical and disappearing world and then transformed himself into a warrior on the front lines to protect it. Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his organization, The Last Great Ape (LAGA), have put countless poachers and traffickers of endangered species behind bars, and they have fought back against a Kafkaesque culture of corruption. Before Ofir arrived in Cameroon, no one had ever even tried.

Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of 34, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Unwittingly, she had followed life’s script, and now she needed to cast it out. Inspired by female explorers like Mary Kingsley, who explored Gabon’s jungle in the 1890s, and Karen Blixen, who ran a farm in Kenya during World War I, Sovich packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure.

Johannesburgo. Esto es la guía Oficial de Holiday FM de Johannesburgo. ohannesburgo: El corazón de Sud África. Una ciudad vibrante con una gran cantidad de lujos modernos y de cultura indígena. El centro económico del continente, Johannesburgo fue construida en la reserva de oro mas grande del mundo y se ha convertido en uno de los mayores espacios urbanos en el planeta.

Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study.

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda...

In June 1960, Alzada Kistner and her husband, David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to face numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded.

Zefir - flugt i Marokko er en rejseberetning. En beretning om forfatterens helt utrolig spændende oplevelser på en rejse til Rifbjergene, hvor religion, overtro, handel og kriminalitet blandes. Men det er også en beretning om at rejse - om rejsen som drømmenes forbindelse med virkeligheden. I en lille berberlandsby, der ernærer sig ved hampedyrkning, udsættes forfatteren for afpresning og flygter. Flugten fra afpresseren, Zefir, bliver et møde med nye sider af marokkanernes liv. Men det bliver også en blanding af flugt fra og møde med forfatterens eget liv. `Jeg løb ned ad bjerget.

"Ud for Afrikas østkyst svømmer en ø i tropesolen; Zanzibar er dens navn, og den er berømt over hele jordkloden for sine kryddernelliker. Før fly blev et gængs transportmiddel, kom de rejsende sejlende til øen, og længe inden den dukkede op i horisonten, bølgede den stærke kryddernellikeduft skibets passagerer i møde." Journalist Arne Falk-Rønne er rejst til det afrikanske kontinent for at følge "I Stanleys fodspor" 100 år efter, han fandt Livingstone. Arne Falk-Rønne (1920-1992) var en dansk forfatter, journalist, rejseleder og eventyrer.

Esta es una historia de carreteras de tierra, de viajes en autobuses destartalados y de platos de mijo compartidos. También de las lágrimas de un veterano de guerra en Sudán del Sur, de la negociación de una dote en una aldea sudafricana y del hambre desesperada de los nómadas del Cuerno de África. Desde hace más de una década, Xavier Aldekoa recorre el continente africano, donde ha sido testigo de guerras fratricidas, de hambrunas silenciadas y del despegue de naciones.

Autor jedzie do sparaliżowanej przez ebolę Afryki i śledzi losy ludzi w czasach zarazy. Uczestniczy w krwawej ofierze, przedziera się przez lasy namorzynowe i dżunglę, spotyka Polaka z kopalni diamentów, zostaje przemytnikiem, słucha opowieści o zabijaniu dzieci, a w głębi dżungli o czarach, duchach i zombie. W prezencie otrzymuje żonę wodza, częstują go pieczenią z małpy i nietoperza. Widzi męczarnie konających, rozpacz i obojętność wobec śmierci.

Die Wildnis ist tief in uns Menschen verwurzelt - wir haben nur verlernt, auf ihre Stimme zu hören. Vor drei Jahren tauschte Gesa Neitzel den Großstadtalltag gegen das Ungewisse, flog nach Afrika und begann im südafrikanischen Busch ein ganz neues Leben. Auge in Auge mit Elefanten, Löwen und Leoparden lernt Gesa jeden Tag aufs Neue, was wirklich zählt und warum es heute wichtiger ist denn je, auf die eigene innere Stimme zu hören. Am Lagerfeuer, unterm Sternenhimmel, wird vieles plötzlich ganz einfach und klar - echte Stille etwa ist wahrer Luxus.

In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half-year, 10,000-mile adventure ranks among the greatest journeys in the annals of exploration, and his discoveries are considered indispensable by modern scholars of Africa.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Cape Town. Greater Than a Tourist - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, by author Hendrik Human, offers the inside scoop on Cape Town, the Mother City. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Through stories remembered and imagined, A Stranger's Pose draws the listener into a world of encounters in more than a dozen African towns. Iduma blends memoir, travelogue, and storytelling in these fragments of a traveler’s journey across several African cities.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Algeria. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the ‘Greater Than a Tourist’ series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. This guide book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead gives you knowledge that you may not find in other smaller print travel books. Experience cultural, culinary delights, and attractions with the guidance of a Local.

Colorful Morocco in 12 Days: Discover a Tapestry of Tradition and Adventure is your guide to an unforgettable journey through Morocco’s vibrant culture and stunning landscapes. From Casablanca’s modern charm to Fes’s ancient alleys, Marrakech’s bustling souks, and the vast Sahara sands, this book takes you far beyond the usual tourist paths. Packed with insider tips, detailed itineraries, and hidden gems, this book is perfect for adventurers and culture lovers alike. Get inspired, grab your own copy, and start planning your Moroccan odyssey today!