Still Bleating about the Bush


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Contains stories previously published in Bleating about the bush and Back at sundown, as well as new material.




Region, Nature, Frontiers


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The book is a collection of sixteen essays on issues of regional and national identities and perceptions in literature ranging from South Africa to the United States. Discussions include the American frontier, the relationship between non-fiction and place, linguistic and postcolonial boundaries.




Close Calls


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Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been stalking him for months, frontiersman Davey Crockett was the one to save him. With pacy, immediate writing and including supplemental archival photographs and archival materials, this book chronicles thrilling undertold stories of U.S. presidents' moments of bravery.




On the Trail of the Man-Killers


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Africa is often referred to as a country abounding in witchcraft and wild animals or 'Myths and Marauders'. Of course, not all the animals are marauders just as all the Africans are not ruled by witchcraft; although legend and superstition do still play a large part in the life of the average African. Man is not the natural prey of any animal and when one of these mighty beasts turns against humans, it is capable of wreaking destruction on a terrible scale until death ends its reign of terror. Man, unless armed, is a puny creature and no match for the horns or claws against which circumstances sometimes pit him. Small wonder that an animal on the rampage is so feared by the natives whose areas they invade. It is therefore up to a hunter skilled in taking down man-eaters and marauders, to come face to face with these wild beasts which, until stopped, rain destruction and death upon the peoples who cower in the shadow of their wild brutality. Garth Carpenter is one such hunter.




Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand


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A factual account of the author's experiences of life in the bush and on farms in Australia and New Zealand during the nineteenth century.







Navigator of the Soul


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Failure Is Not Final


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Have you ever done something that was so horrible that you truly have no excuses? A simple “bless your heart” won’t cut it, and the all-encompassing Christian Hail Mary phrase that covers a multitude of sins, “The Lord knows my heart,” just won’t do. Not for this time. You can wax poetic. You dropped the ball at the five-yard line, you didn’t live up to your expectations, and you fell flat. Best of all, you’re only human. But when you look at the aftermath of your decisions, it looks like a battlefield of the emotionally and sometimes physically wounded. There are no excuses. We knew better. We saw the trouble coming, and we just couldn’t step away. We got caught up in our selfishness, caught up in fleeting excitement, and caught up in minutes of recklessness that have left a lifetime of “I wish I hadn’ts.” When you peel off the weak excuses, the tissue-paper pride, the guilt, anger, and shame, “I messed up,” without just flat-out cussing, sums it up. Now what will you do?




Akimbo and the Lions


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When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park when they are trying to trap a lion that has been attacking cattle on nearby farms, Akimbo wants to keep the cub. Reprint.