AfricanXMag Volume 4 Issue 3

AfricanXMag Volume 4 Issue 3
Author: Safari Media Africa contributors
Publisher: Safari Media Africa
Total Pages: 102
Release:
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

What is a trophy? The true heart of the hunt Not getting what you want? What your PH does not know African adventurers of yesteryear |The Maneating lions of Tsavo: Attack on the wagon Rookie Writers When things go right | Africa - the good news: The good news from Africa Make a Plan: The multifunctional binoculars True North: Seen a painting of a naked man?

African Magic

African Magic
Author: Heidi Holland
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0143527851

Africa's traditional beliefs - including ancestor worship, divination and witchcraft - continue to dominate its spiritual influences. Readers in search of a better understanding of the continent will be enriched by this book's timely exploration of sub-Saharan Africa's natural philosophy. The author's meticulous research reveals that, whereas technology-driven Western societies prefer to rely largely on logical explanations, many Africans continue to obey their intuition - trusting in images, dreams and divination to rationalise misfortune and illness. African Magic explains why so many Africans understand the relationship between people and unfortunate events not through the Western concept of chance in the case of accidents, or germ theory in the case of illness, but through belief in witchcraft. The book records a collection of true stories which illustrate this traditional belief system. Included are the famous Malawian diviner whose prophecies were considered so accurate that people flocked from neighbouring countries to consult him; a group of Western-trained Mozambican psychologists who successfully refined cross-cultural therapy by working with traditional healers to combat post-traumatic stress syndrome among child soldiers; Ghanaian and Zimbabwean 'witches' living in a nightmare world where popular belief becomes their reality; and a Zambian archbishop whose attempt to embrace traditional African beliefs provoked serious conflict within his Christian church.

The Magician's Land

The Magician's Land
Author: Lev Grossman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101633530

Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024 The stunning #1 New York Times bestselling conclusion to the Magicians trilogy A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS • The San Francisco Chronicle • Salon • The Christian Science Monitor • AV Club • Buzzfeed • Kirkus • NY 1 • Bustle • The Globe and Mail Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him. Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything. The Magician’s Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic, and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. It’s the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole.

AfricanXMag Volume 4 Issue 4

AfricanXMag Volume 4 Issue 4
Author: Safari Media Africa contributors
Publisher: Safari Media Africa
Total Pages: 116
Release:
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

The Razor’s Edge: The secret of a supersharp hunting knife | The global adventurer: Hunt, dive and fish the world - while keeping your wife happy | African bullet Report The new Barnes VorTX | African adventurers of yesteryear The Maneating lions of Tsavo Rookie Writers: When things go right Part 2 | Africa - the good news The good news from Africa | African Bush Cuisine: Crocodile with Mango and Basil Sauce Make a Plan Soldering or welding in emergencies | True North: Come home

The Magician King

The Magician King
Author: Lev Grossman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0452298016

Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024 Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The Magicians, now an original series on SYFY, from the author of the #1 bestselling The Magician’s Land. Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory—a fictional utopia—was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring. Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off—only to somehow wind up back in the real world and not in Fillory, as they’d hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia’s illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth.

Books of Magic (2018-) #1

Books of Magic (2018-) #1
Author: Kat Howard
Publisher: Vertigo
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

From the SANDMAN UNIVERSE #1, itÕs the return of Neil GaimanÕs magical morality fable in an all-new series written by Kat Howard (Roses and Rot, An Unkindness of Magicians) and drawn by Tom Fowler (DOOM PATROL)! Timothy Hunter may be destined tobecome the most powerful magician in the universe, but heÕs still a London teenager, and having magical abilities complicates things more than it helps. ItÕs not like he can use magic to pass his exams, stop being bullied or convince his cute friend to date him. And while TimÕs trying to live his life, there are cultists who want to kill him, believing his power will eventually corrupt him into becoming a merciless mage. Oh, and those are the good guys. Luckily, his new substitute teacher is more than she appears, and may be able to help Tim discover the mystery behind the Books of MagicÉ

Black Magic Women

Black Magic Women
Author: Crystal Connor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780999852200

"From 18 of the women profiled in 100 Black Women in Horror come 18 soul-scorching tales of terror that place black characters up front and center."--Page [4] of cover.