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Africa Notes addresses the following question: How are exceptional travel experiences, especially ones taken to realize life-long dreams, not only integrated into your memories, but also informed by your past experiences, your knowledge, and your values? In this sense, the book’s theme is transferable to other aspects of human lives as well as to experiences that are not necessarily chosen but nevertheless have a major impact on our personal futures. There is plenty of biology in Africa Notes, but that biology is quite different from what you would find in the rest of the tourism or ...

What do you do when a bucket list goal turns into one long week that changes you forever? Bethany and Vince are a dating couple who decide to climb Mt Kilimanjaro together. They had no idea how this treacherous journey would challenge them as a couple and individually. They lost a climber at the summit and a piece of them still remains on that mountaintop. The seven days they spent on the side of a mountain forging relationships with the strangers they met in their group changed them forever. They saw tragedy, experienced tears and devastation, and the reward of accomplishment. This story ...

Fall under the spell ...“The light, filtered through canopy, had a cathedral glow….Vines, mosses, ferns, and orchids piggybacked on plants and trees, coating trunks with a furry green. A great hornbill, bulbous beaked and rainbow-colored, flapped in high forest, its giant wings wheezing as if prehistoric. Perched, it sang—a low susurrus like a humming …” In this fiery tale set in steamy equatorial Africa, Peace Corps volunteer David Fields is on mission: to build a medical dispensary in a village where spells are cast on enemies and fear of a geek-shaman reigns. David seldom has ...

Dangerous things happen in Africa. People disappear. Everybody knows that. But as an outsider, Paul thinks he is safe, even from the secret police, whatever he starts to find, or wherever it leads; despite the turmoil leading up to the country’s first multi party election and with a diamond fuelled civil war raging in the failed state just across the border. But when Paul finds himself and his friends trapped holding a potentially deadly secret as the country begins to implode, what will he be prepared to do to protect himself and those around him in order to escape? Set in East Africa in...

Mike Nunan, former maths teacher, bank manager, athletics administrator and Green Number Comrades runner (11 runs completed), has spent the past 20 years of his life managing game lodges throughout Southern Africa - as far afield as Tanzania and Botswana.He grew up in the frontier bush environment of Northern Botswana, which instilled in him a deep love and respect for nature, wildlife and conservation.He has combined his skills as a keen observer, both of his natural surroundings and his fellow man, and as a fireside raconteur of note to produce this wonderful collection of reflections, ...

From his early childhood days in St. Ives, Eric had always known he was destined for a life at sea, and he has already told the story of his Merchant Navy cadet training on HMS Worcester in his book Yes, Dad I Want to Go to Sea! After his training with HMS Worcester, Eric worked as an apprentice with the Ellerman and Bucknall Steamship Company, where he gained his Chief Officer’s Certificate. Following this he joined the Palm Line as a Second Officer. Here he remembers his five years with the Palm Line from 1960 to 1965. During this time he served in fourteen of the company’s ships, ...

A world traveler returns to the topic of her 1996 trip to Madagascar, to see how it has fared over time. Originally Chapter 1 of the cultural geography exploration, "An Amateur's Guide to the Planet."