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Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was a British explorer, hunter, and conservationist. In this work, The Lion in South Africa, he describes his numerous encounters with wild lions and notes that as far back as the 1890s, lion numbers were shrinking from overhunting.

A reportage from the turbulent, chaotic birth of the free Angola; the author calls it his “first real book”. Ryszard Kapuściński arrives to a country divided by two armies. For some time he's the only foreign correspondent there. Among the unbelievable chaos, he meets more and more people whose fates become the illustration of the cruelty of war. This book is a unique combination of war reportage with literary artistry - so characteristic of Ryszard Kapuściński.

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.

Una mirada fascinante al continente africano para descubrir vidas, culturas, tradiciones, sabores y olores, que invitan al oyente a inventar su propia África. Gracias a su trabajo como reportera, Lola Hierro ha conocido la esperanza de igualdad de las mujeres en Etiopía; ha dormido junto a hipopótamos en Kenia; ha admirado el trabajo de las campesinas del mar en Tanzania; ha saboreado el café preparado a la manera tradicional en Uganda; ha sido alumna de la maestra Doussou Fané en Malí; ha sido testigo de las duras condiciones de vida de los refugiados en Níger.

Gracias a su trabajo como reportera, Lola Hierro ha conocido la esperanza de igualdad de las mujeres en Etiopía; ha dormido junto a hipopótamos en Kenia; ha admirado el trabajo de las campesinas del mar en Tanzania; ha saboreado el café preparado a la manera tradicional en Uganda; ha sido alumna de la maestra Doussou Fané en Malí; ha sido testigo de las duras condiciones de vida de los refugiados en Níger; ha comprobado la resistencia de los bosquimanos en Botsuana; ha abrazado el mar y el desierto en Namibia, y ha sobrevivido a las indómitas aguas del río Zambeze en Zimbabue.

David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers who ever lived. He fought all his life against slavery, and is remembered as a national hero for opening up the interior of the so-called "Dark Continent"; his expeditions had a tremendous influence on the colonization of Africa and the relation between Europeans and Africans. The son of a Christian missionary himself, Livingstone felt a spiritual calling to reach people in the interior of Africa in order to find new commercial routes and thus free the Africans from the plague of slavery.

In this powerful personal narrative, Gregory Dybec recounts his short yet eventful trip to South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup where he encountered a series of unforgettable situations, from a memorable collection of new friends, to life-threatening car rides, to an image of violence impossible to shake. This gripping nonfiction narrative examines a country, its people, and the complexities of life under the festive backdrop of one of the world's largest sporting events.

Mungo Park was an explorer of the real kind. In 1795, only aged 24, he left Gambia for the uncharted interior of Africa, in a journey that would be filled with tragedy, heroism, and adventure. Park was the first European to ever reach the river Niger and the legendary city of Timbuctoo, thus resolving, once and for all, a century-old geographic debate. He travelled with local guides and later entirely alone, through warring kingdoms, robberies, imprisonment, and extreme duress. By the time he returned to Gambia, he had long been given up for dead.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Based on "Travels in West Africa" by Mary Kingsley, this is the account of a Victorian lady's journeys up the rivers of West Africa in the 1890s. AUTHOR: Mary Kingsley was born in 1862. She was trapped by the conventions of her time until her parents died but then, with an income of £500, she was free to travel and in 1893 went to Africa.

Äthiopien hat mehr zu bieten als nur Hunger und Armut! Besuchen Sie mit uns das Land jenseits der Elends-Klischees. Wiege der Menschheit...

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...

Bis zu 1500 Kilometer weit ist es von den Kanaren zum spanischen Festland, während die Nordwestküste Afrikas an der engsten Stelle nur 100 Kilometer entfernt ist. Das spürt man auf den nächstgelegenen Inseln: Auf Lanzarote und Fuerteventura brennt die Sonne; Lavafelder, Sanddünen und Steinwüsten prägen die Landschaft. Etwas weiter westlich überrascht Gran Canaria mit der Provinzhauptstadt Las Palmas mit langen Sandstränden und einem der besten Konzertsäle der Welt. Der höchste Berg Spaniens thront imposant über Teneriffa: der Pico del Teide.

Leones, elefantes, búfalos, leopardos y rinocerontes son los cinco animales más difíciles de cazar a pie, de ahí que se acuñara el concepto "los cinco grandes". En este libro relato mis vivencias durante un safari fotográfico en una reserva privada colindante al Parque Nacional Kruger, en Sudáfrica. Compartir el hábitat de los pequeños y grandes animales de la sabana, verlos en su entorno natural y experimentar en carne propia la "ley de la selva", fue una aventura inolvidable.

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.

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.

Livingstone's first book revolutionized the way European readers saw Africa and made him a hero in England. He returned again to the Zambesi with his brother Charles and others, this time with more equipment and funds. Again he faced hippopotami, crocodiles, impossible terrain, and disease, but his greatest enemies on this trip prove to be human. The British eventually lost faith in the expedition, but Livingstone proved in the end to have had tremendous foresight.