Africa
epub |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:John Frederick Walker

THE IDEA OF anyone shooting Angola’s great endangered antelope had made Anne Dodgson livid. “I’d like to post a reward on the Internet for turning in anyone who killed a ...
( Category: Mammals April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-13 | Author:John Frederick Walker

“MOMBASA IS SLOWLY taking over the role of the world’s main ivory centre from London,” proclaimed the Mombasa Times in January of 1961. During 1960–61 virtually all East African ivory, ...
( Category: Mammals March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Tim Jeal [Jeal, Tim]

King Leopold II of Belgium Stanley first met the king in Brussels on 10 June 1878, having been brought from the railway station in central Brussels to his palace at ...
( Category: Journalists March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Girling [Girling, Richard]

Uninvited guest – the lioness brought a sudden end to breakfast Another day, we rumble across the plain to the conservancy’s airstrip. It is heavily grazed and, at ground level, ...
( Category: Conservation March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Moorehead [Moorehead, Alan]

Not very practical for men campaigning through the jungle perhaps; but a good regimen for camp. I heard no one suggest that the Japanese soldier looked unfit. For a few ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Ben Rawlence

By March 2012, conditions in the camp were sliding back towards emergency levels. The month before, MSF had launched a report titled ‘Dadaab: Back to Square One’. The suspension in ...
( Category: African March 2,2016 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-11-05 | Author:John Reader

CHAPTER 38 Africa Transformed The significance of the slave trade for Africa lay less in the number of people lost than in the changed social patterns and reproductive capabilities of ...
( Category: Regional February 15,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1994-01-14 | Author:Donald R. Morris

INVASION Reveille at Rorke’s Drift sounded at two on the morning of Saturday, January 11, 1879. It was an hour earlier than expected; someone had looted Stewart’s wagons after dark ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Laird Scranton [Laird Scranton]

As mentioned above, the Egyptian name for the goddess Neith is Net, which can be written hieroglyphically in many different forms. We can only assume that if Neith in one ...
( Category: Christianity January 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Nic Fields

Throwing off all semblance of negotiations, in the spring Scipio sent a small body of troops towards Utica equipped with a siege train. The ploy was to make the Carthaginians ...
( Category: Rome December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Fodor's

Planning Your Time If you’re here for a short stay—three or fewer days—you’d do well to base yourself in Killarney and devote your time to exploring the surrounding area, then ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums December 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Fodor's

Previous Chapter | Beginning of Chapter | Next Chapter | Table of Contents Previous Chapter | Next Chapter | Table of Contents Dunblane | Callander | Balquhidder Glen | The ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums December 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-26 | Author:Ian Knight [Knight, Ian]

‘Lightning, lightning of heaven’, he called, ‘it glitters and it shines; the sun, the sun of the Zulus, it consumes all!’ It was a quick-witted retort, seizing on the apparent ...
( Category: Great Britain November 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-19 | Author:David Anderson

Terrorizing the Tai-tai Nairobi’s number one tai-tai was Tom Mbotela. As a member of the executive committee of the KAU and as a senior official on Nairobi’s African Advisory Council, ...
( Category: African November 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-03 | Author:Unknown [Unknown]

The Forgotten Planet By Sewell Peaslee Wright I have been asked to record, plainly and without prejudice, a brief history of the Forgotten Planet. [Sidenote: The authentic account of why ...
( Category: Architecture October 28,2015 )