The Warm Heart of Africa

The Warm Heart of Africa
Author: Jack Allison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-06-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781950444106

When Jack Allison joined the Peace Corps in 1967, he never intended to write the number one hit song in Malawi or be described by Newsweek as more popular than Malawi's own president. A poor Southern white boy with a deep love of music, Jack only wanted an answer to one burning question: Should he become a minister or a doctor? In the end, the answer Jack found was that he would choose medicine as a career. And, living in extreme circumstances in the world's then-poorest country, he would find even more-that he had the inner resources that allowed him to not only thrive but give the best of what he had to those who needed it the most.

Malawi

Malawi
Author: Philip Briggs
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781841621708

A guide for visitors to Malawi. It provide readers with advice on planning their itinerary, wildlife and bird species identification, conservation areas, national parks and a history of the country.

The Birds of Malawi

The Birds of Malawi
Author: Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire
Publisher: Tauraco & Aves
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Presents scientific accounts of the 650 species known (including nearly 100 migrants from Eurasia). This title contains sections on distribution, ecology, status and movements, conservation, breeding seasons (where applicable) and taxonomy.

Malawi - Culture Smart!

Malawi - Culture Smart!
Author: Kondwani Bell Munthali
Publisher: Kuperard
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787029395

Nicknamed "The Warm Heart of Africa," "Land of the Lake," and "The Land of Smiling Faces," this small, landlocked country in southeast Africa offers travelers a true African experience. Within a single day, visitors can go on safari, enjoy sprawling tea gardens, and watch the sun sets over Lake Malawi, the third-largest lake in Africa and home to many rare species of fish. The country has nine unique national parks and wildlife reserves and has been home to many diverse African cultures, from the indigenous hunter-gathers to the incoming iron-working Bantu settlers. Dress, dance, masks, language, and traditional festivals all reflect waves of migrating tribes—those fleeing Shaka Zulu in the south, Swahili Arab slave traders in the east, and Bantu from Central Africa. Other cultural influences came through the slave trade routes, contact with Portuguese and Indian traders, and English missionaries who introduced Victorian-era buildings. This historic blend has produced a people who are strong, good-humored, conservative, traditional, yet adaptable, creative, loyal, and hard-working.

The Warm Heart of Africa

The Warm Heart of Africa
Author: Gloria Caldwell
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019-03-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480992828

The Warm Heart of Africa A Volunteer’s Journal By: Gloria Caldwell Two years—two exhilarating, eye-opening, life-changing years spent by Gloria Caldwell in Africa volunteering in the Peace Corps. From living in a hut with no electricity, to walking or biking three miles to the tarmac road and catching a mini-bus to travel 70 miles to purchase food. Gloria truly experienced a lifestyle very different from the one to which she and most Americans have become accustomed.

Venture To The Interior

Venture To The Interior
Author: Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1407073214

Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn't really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot and take a look, please? Venture to the Interior is the account of that journey, a journey filled with adventure and discovery, flying from London across Europe and Africa, and after days in small aircraft, on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of central Africa.

Within Our Grasp

Within Our Grasp
Author: Sharman Apt Russell
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1524747254

An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world’s children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. These children do not die but endure a lifetime of diminished potential. During the past thirty years, says Sharman Russell, we have seen a revolution in how we treat these sick children and in how—with a new understanding of the human body and approach to nutrition, and new ways to reach out to hungry mothers and babies—we have gone from unwittingly killing severely malnourished children to bringing them back to health through the “miracle” of ready-to-eat therapeutic food. Intertwined with stories of scientists and nutrition experts on the front lines of finding ways to end malnutrition for good, Russell writes of her travels to Malawi, one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world and also the site of pathbreaking, cutting-edge research into childhood malnutrition. (Eighty percent of Malawians are farmers subsisting on less than an acre of land and coping with erratic weather patterns due to global warming; fifty percent live below the poverty line; and forty-two percent of Malawi’s children are affected by a lack of food or nutrients.) As she writes of her personal exploration of new friendships and insights in a country known as “the warm heart of Africa,” Russell describes the programs that are working best to reduce childhood stunting and explores how malnutrition in children is connected to climate change, how vitamins and minerals are preventing these harmful effects, why the empowerment of women is the single most effective factor in eliminating childhood malnutrition, and what the costs of ending childhood malnutrition are. Sharman Russell, much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, whose writing has been called, “elegant” (The Economist) and “extraordinarily well-crafted, far-reaching, and heart-wrenching” (Booklist), winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing, has written an illuminating, inspiring book that makes clear the promise of what is today, gratefully, within our grasp.

The Lower River

The Lower River
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547746504

A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa after his marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in a seemingly benign village.