Trails of Africa

Trails of Africa
Author: Daniel Nuss
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685266363

After relocating into the heart of northern Tanzania for their careers, four close friends participate in never-ending, suspenseful, trapdoor assignments otherwise known in their line of work as wildlife conservation and archaeology. But it's not until one of the group's friends presented challenges like no other to their lives during the highly unimaginable, determined work they happened to love. How would each character react to their fellow coworkers if they locked horns with someone in their seemingly close-knit group who never stopped being impossible? It would seem that no matter what the group had done, they never seemed to get it right for that particular person. And the fact of the matter is, it's a recurring matter throughout nearly each day spent between one another while enjoying their work interest. What everybody in the group, save that special someone, must ask themselves is, How long should they put up with that special someone and deal with the difficulty? To make matters worse, one of the other characters refuses to hear the difficult character out, which leaves a stain on their relationships. Complications only arise as a criminal led the charge in parts of Tanzania to involve them in tracking him and his men in poaching and archaeology. And to top it all off, the difficult character had the canny ability to be a step forward through the door and to take the lead with any obstacle that heads their way. But by leaving each of the close acquaintances far more tightly knit together than they were before in the middle of prevalent danger, their struggles came as a surprise, realizing how they really didn't see each other the right way, all based on a story of suspenseful adventure that only raised the tenacity of keeping the group alarmed on their toes.

In Search of Brightest Africa

In Search of Brightest Africa
Author: Jeannette Eileen Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820340294

In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa with an eye to recovering the emergence of a belief in “Brightest Africa”—a tradition that runs through American cultural and intellectual history with equal force to its “Dark Continent” counterpart. Jones skillfully weaves disparate strands of turn-of-the-century society and culture to expose a vivid trend of cultural engagement that involved both critique and activism. Filmmakers spoke out against the depiction of “savage” Africa in the mass media while also initiating a countertradition of ethnographic documentaries. Early environmentalists celebrated Africa as a pristine continent while lamenting that its unsullied landscape was “vanishing.” New Negro political thinkers also wanted to “save” Africa but saw its fragility in terms of imperiled human promise. Jones illuminates both the optimism about Africa underlying these concerns and the racist and colonial interests these agents often nevertheless served. The book contributes to a growing literature on the ongoing role of global exchange in shaping the African American experience as well as debates about the cultural place of Africa in American thought.

Osa and Martin

Osa and Martin
Author: Kelly Enright
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0762768347

The inspiring story of the legendary couple whose wildlife films transformed America’s perceptions of exotic places.

Quarterly Booklist

Quarterly Booklist
Author: Pratt Institute. Free Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1924
Genre: Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN: