In the Shade of the Camelthorn Tree

In the Shade of the Camelthorn Tree
Author: Mark Campbell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557023491
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Short Stories / Anicdotes relating to African Hunting Safaris/As a small boy growing up in Kenya, I would listen to the stories my mother told me with avid interest. I would hang on to her every word and vowed that one day I was going to be a hunter too. Many of my parent's safari boys were my friends and would scare the daylights out of me by telling me hair-raising stories of their own. Each chapter of this book is a complete story in itself. The book is designed to make light and amusing reading.

Leaves From the Fig Tree

Leaves From the Fig Tree
Author: Diana Duff
Publisher: Caryatid Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0463176758
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Born in Africa, Anglo-Irish by descent, Diana, aged two, travelled from Johannesburg to Ireland, to Annes Grove, a stately Georgian home with world-famous gardens, with talk of horses, rare plants and fishing juxtaposed with tales of banshees, the little people, ráths, the foxy-haired ghost and visits from Elizabeth Bowen, Vita Sackville-West, David Cecil and many others. Aged 18, Diana returned to Africa, where she doubled for Grace Kelly in 'Mogambo', met Raymond Hook, the king of cheetah racing, befriended the legendary Ewart Grogran and unwittingly employed a Mau Mau leader. Ever one to stand up for what is right, she challenged the authorities at the height of apartheid – and won! With humour, eloquence, empathy and candour, Diana shares her return to a place from her childhood, where family truths are learned, along with the realisation that Africa has real magic all of its own. p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }

Banana Sunday

Banana Sunday
Author: Christopher Munnion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1995
Genre: Africa
ISBN:
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From the horrific to the humorous, the adventures - and misadventures - of journalists assigned to Africa have produced a wealth of yarns, anecdotes and legends. These are the stories behind the headlines, retold and relayed time and time again wherever correspondents gather to relax, but rarely finding their way into print. set forth to illuminate for their readers the mysteries of a dark continent emerging into the dubious daylight of indeterminate independence and polyglot manhood. the bloody chaos of the Congo and the agony of Nigeria's civil war, inside the death camps of Idi Amin's Uganda, under the lash of Hastings Banda's fly whisk in Malawi to the frontiers of white hegemony in Rhodesia, the hacks of Africa hardened into an elite as eccentric as the beat they had been sent to cover. Most survived; some were killed or wounded in action, and this book is dedicated to their memory. post-colonial trauma and turbulence. There are heroes and villains, champions and cheats, saints and sinners, all finding themselves thrown together in the most unlikely situations in search of the Africa story.

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting (1907)

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting (1907)
Author: Virginia State Bar Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781458956538
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Transactions OF THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Virginia State Bar Association HELD AT INSIDE INN, JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION NORFOLK, VIRGINIA JULY 30th, 3 la, AUGUST I ft, 1907 Jamestown Exposition, Virginia, Tuesday, July 30th, 1907. Mr. John Garland Pollard, of Richmond, Chairman of the Executive Committee, called the Association to order at 11 o'clock A. M., and said: Gentlemen of the Virginia State Bar Association: It is my duty, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, to call this Association to order. I have the honor of presenting to you our President, Honorable Allen Caperton Braxton, who will now deliver his animal address. Honorable Allen Caperton Braxton, President of the Association, then read his address. (See Appendix.) The President: Gentlemen, President Tucker, of the Jamestown Exposition requests me to extend to this Association the invitation of the Exposition Company to attend the celebration of the House of Burgesses, which celebration will be held in the Auditorium at 12 o'clock. I suggest that we take an early adjournment in order that we may attend that celebration. Colonel E. E. Stickley, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, then read the first report of that committee. (See. Report at end of Minutes.) On motion, the report of the Committee on Admissions was received and adopted. On motion, the reports of committees were passed until the evening session, and the Association then took a recess until 8:30 o'clock P. M. EVENING SESSION. Jamestown Exposition, Virginia, Tuesday, July 30th, 1907. The Association was called to order by the President at 8:30 o'clock P. M. The President: The first biisiness before the meeting this evening is the appointment of the Committee on Publications, which sho...