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Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel, and their five-year-old daughter, Regina, each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker; pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn; while the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country - learning the local language and customs.

Mount Kilimanjaro is sometimes called "Everyman's Everest" because it is possible for a novice climber to reach the summit. And every year, more than 30,000 adventure tourists try. But for each person who goes to the mountain, there are thousands more who chat about it at parties, making plans to go...someday. That's how Daniel Dorr got started: flirting with a beautiful brunette and spouting impressive plans. Six months later, he was lying on the gravel trail at 18,000 feet, panting and hacking in the darkness.

Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was murdered there, and she didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to rediscover and come to terms with the country her father loved.

Canoeing the Congo narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo River in war-torn Central Africa. It was a historic 'first descent' from the true source in the highlands of Zambia. Just short of 3,000 miles long, the Congo River is the eighth longest in the world and the deepest river in the world, with a flow rate second only to the Amazon. Along the way, Phil encountered numerous waterfalls, huge rapids, man-eating crocodiles, hippos, aggressive snakes...

Listeners will shed a tear at her losses and laugh at her predicaments in this sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking, true story that gives a moving and often shocking insight in to the earlier life of the much-loved travel writer famed for her humor and her honesty. Susie recalls a 50s childhood in post-war London's every shade of gray and the splendors of Africa as, with her glamorous mother and father, Susie boards a ship bound for exotic, technicolor Kenya. Then in its final decade as a colony, Kenya was peopled with larger-than-life characters who had helped forge its identity.

An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar, but it's too big, too eccentric and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet its road network is barely bigger than tiny Jamaica's. There is no evidence of any human life until about 10,000 years ago, and, when eventually people settled, it was migrants from Borneo - 3,700 miles away - who came out on top.

When expat blogger and mother of four Eva Melusine Thieme first harbors the idea of ringing out her three years in Africa on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, it sounds easy. In fact, it has all the trappings of a dream vacation: no cooking, no fighting kids, and an army of porters to lug everything up the mountain. What can go wrong? Tag along as Eva takes you on her journey up the slopes of Kilimanjaro together with her teenage son and a group of hilarious South African friends. 

Read the powerful account of one woman’s fight to reshape her identity through connection with nature when all normality has fallen away. When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor moved with her husband to Ghana seven years ago she couldn’t have anticipated how her life would be forever...

Verpassen Sie keinesfalls diesen fulminanten, urkomischen und bezaubernden Reisebericht und erleben Sie den afrikanischen Kontinent auf eine einzigartige Weise! Der Autor Dirk Chervatin nimmt Sie mit auf seine Abenteuerreisen zu diesem atemberaubenden wie mysteriösen Kontinent. Begleiten Sie Dirk bei seiner Grenzerfahrung, als er den Kilimandscharo bestieg. Lassen Sie sich in glutheiße Wüsten, lebendige Savannen und pulsierende Großstädte entführen und entdecken Sie Afrika mal von seiner charmanten, mal von seiner gefährlichen Seite.

I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul. There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything. I had started in Spain, this Camino de la Luna, though it started long before and will not end until I die, but where next?

Dans ces quatre contes, qui ont pour cadre l'Afrique équatoriale, l'auteur choisit de mettre en scène des animaux. En fin observateur, il décrit avec précision leur nature et leurs comportements, à la manière d'un La Fontaine, pour en tirer des leçons morales pour la gent humaine. L'homme y est présent sous deux formes et deux appellations : ses collègues administrateurs « blancs de peau » et leurs administrés, " noirs de peau ".

Nedozírná volná prostranství buše, obrazy pestrobarevné africké krajiny, neodbytné vzrušení lovce krátce předtím, než zmáčkne spoušť. To jsou pocity absolutního štěstí, které Hemingway v Africe zažíval. Své vzpomínky na jedinečný ráz africké krajiny přibližuje srozumitelným a jednoduchým stylem, věrohodně a nestrojeně. Lyrický cestopisný deník není jen barvitým líčením krajiny a vzrušujících příhod vášnivého lovce a milovníka zvěře. Jeho součástí jsou i úvahy o světě, umění a životě.

Bloomsbury presents Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon, read by Hamilton McLeod. A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop...

Что нужно взять с собой в путешествие? Добрые намерения, смелость и, конечно, чувство юмора. Автор этой книги, Дмитрий Лукьянчук, путешествует по миру уже более 15 лет. За это время он посетил 148 стран на всех континентах. Ежедневно тревел-блогер рассказывает подписчикам в Instagram о жизни людей в самых отдалённых уголках планеты. Эта книга стала для автора литературным дебютом. В неё вошли два "направления" — Эфиопия и Сомали.

Ein halbes Jahr Auszeit wollen sich Ulli und Lena nehmen und von Hamburg nach Südafrika fahren, den Kontinent entdecken, aber auch sich selbst wiederfinden. In Südafrika kommen sie nie an. Stattdessen reisen sie in ihrem alten Land Rover und einem 40 Jahre alten Dachzelt zwei Jahre durch Westafrika. Es geht um einiges. Darum, in sich selbst hinein zu hören, sich selbst bewusst zu werden und sich wieder zu spüren. Und nicht eher umzudrehen, bis sich an der eigenen Einstellung am Leben etwas grundlegend geändert hat.

Discover the original and modern Africa. A unique animal world, the drive through the Drachenberge and last but not least cultivated wineries await you. Johannesburg, Pretoria, Drakensberg, Kruger National Park, Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope. The journey leads from Johannesburg, the commercial center of South Africa, to the government capital of Pretoria. You will experience Sun City, a glittering fantasy world full of African flair. Continue through the foggy Drakensberg towards Kruger Park.

Entdecken Sie das ursprüngliche und das moderne Afrika. Eine einmalige Tierwelt, die Fahrt durch die Drachenberge und nicht zuletzt gepflegte Weingüter erwarten Sie. Johannesburg, Pretoria, Drakensberge, Krüger Nationalpark, Port Elizabeth, Kap der guten Hoffnung. Die Fahrt führt von Johannesburg, dem kommerziellen Zentrum Südafrikas zur Regierungshauptstadt Pretoria. Sie erleben Sun City, eine glitzernde Fantasiewelt voll afrikanischem Flair. Weiter geht es durch die nebeligen Drakensberge in Richtung Kruger Park.

I 1950 begyndte Hakon Mielche og dr. Anton Fr. Bruun en ambitiøs verdensomsejling på ekspeditionsskibet Galathea. Hakon Mielche fungerede som kronikør og udgav hele tre bøger om ekspeditionen. Bind 1 fortæller om afrejsen fra København, turen forbi Plymouth og Lissabon, før skibet nærmede sig Afrikas kyst og gjorde holdt på Tenerife. Nu går turen rundt om Det Mørke Kontinent, hvor skibet blandt andet lægger til kaj ved Dakar, Cape Town og på Madagaskar.

It is the early '70s. Two best friends and a toddler (the future rock star Melissa Auf der Maur) set out in a red post office van on a 2,000-mile drive from Hay-on-Wye in Wales to Marrakesh in North Africa. Their meandering journey changes abruptly when they meet two American drug dealers from Amsterdam on a secret intelligence mission, with a plentiful supply of pure black Afghan hash. Amidst the dope smoking world of gangster aristocrats and dislocated hippies, they gaze into the hidden worlds within ancient Venetian glass goulamine beads, and that’s when worlds collide.

Afrika: ein faszinierender Kontinent mit einer Vielzahl an einzigartigen Kulturen und spannenden Legenden. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches steht der sogenannte "Nachrichtenbaum" - ein beliebter Ort für Begegnungen und Gespräche. Hier werden regelmäßig die spannendsten Neuigkeiten und Geschichten ausgetauscht und weitergegeben. Axel Thorer sammelt diese Geschichten in einem Werk, das die Leser teilhaben lässt an der Schönheit Afrikas und der Erzählkunst seiner Bewohner.