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7) South Africa
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"South Africa is home to some of the most beautiful geography on Earth! From Table Mountain to Cape Town, this nation may be lovely, but it has a tumultuous history. Nonetheless, a road trip around South Africa is on many tourists' bucket lists! In this book, readers get to hop in the car with a young narrator traveling around South Africa. The main content includes topics supportive of social studies curricula, including geography, history, and landmarks,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul spirals outward from the central African country of Uganda, to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and concluding in South Africa, to unearth in six chapters a sense of African ancestral belief and practice.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Provided is a wonderful collection from BBC that provides a vivid portrait of fifty-two of the world's most exotic and beautiful travel locations. Marvel at the splendors of these remarkable places, and travel with the access that only the BBC can provide. From manmade wonders to soaring monuments, from sacred religious sites to unspoiled natural ecosystems, this collection has it all. Includes: the Parthenon in Greece, Taj Mahal in India, Statue...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seagull Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Condé, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors the same way an author chooses the music and meaning of words. In Of Morsels and Marvels, Condé takes us on a literary journey around places she has travelled to in India, Indonesia, and South Africa....
20) Olive the Lionheart: lost love, imperial spies, and one woman's journey into the heart of Africa
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirty-year-old redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa. So, she went to find him. Olive the Lionheart is the thrilling true story of her astonishing journey--and her awakening to the real reason why she travelled to Africa in the first place. Drawing on Olive's own letters and secret diaries, Olive the Lionheart is a love story that defies...
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