The Travels of Ibn Batūta
Author : Ibn Batuta
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 1829
Category : Africa
ISBN :
A Traveller's History of South Africa
Author : David Mason
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
A penetrating overview of South Africa and its varied and complex history, this book is sure to appeal to visitors and anyone interested in the country's past and present. Illustrations.
A Traveller's History of North Africa
Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Gerald Duckworth
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 9780715637388
Book Description
This concise and readable guide to the history and culture of Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria, relates the history of the region from its earliest beginnings to its politics and life at the turn of the new century. North Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and to the south, the sands of the Sahara. It has seen wave upon wave of invasion, from the Carthaginians in the 5th century BC to the French in the 20th century.
The Traveller in Africa
Author : Priscilla Wakefield
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 1814
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Book Description
Travelling While Black
Author : Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 1787383822
Book Description
What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.
CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel
Author : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190628634
Book Description
THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world. The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government's most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: · Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities · Special considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees · Practical tips for last-minute or resource-limited travelers · Advice for air crews, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and others who provide care and support overseas Authored by a team of the world's most esteemed travel medicine experts, the Yellow Book is an essential resource for travelers -- and the clinicians overseeing their care -- at home and abroad.
The Traveller in Africa, Containing Some Account of the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and Inhabitants, Etc
Author : Priscilla WAKEFIELD
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 1814
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Travellers in Africa
Author : Timothy Youngs
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 152612372X
Book Description
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author : Mungo Park
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Book Description
Uncommon Traveler
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547349599
Book Description
Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she’d read about in her father’s library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.
