Africa
Destination: Africa Book: One Day I Will Write About This Place (NEW August 2011) by Binyavanga Wainaina (NOTE: After I wrote and titled this review, I carefully read Binyavanga Wainaina’s sardonic instructions on “How to Write About Africa” in the magazine Granta. You may want to check as you compile your Africa reading list.) Binyavanga [...]
Destination: Africa, the Serengeti Book: by Uwe Skrzypczak WIN THIS BOOK (See below) Available in print from your bookseller or in digital form through I-Tunes.
50th Birthday of the Peace Corps! Destination: Gabon, Africa Book: How to Cook a Crocodile by Bonnie L. Black I raced through How to Cook a Crocodile by Bonnie Lee Black, wanting to know what adventure the next day would bring. I liked nearly everything about this memoir with [...]
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Destination: Nigeria Book: Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe You won’t learn here about today’s Africa, racked by wars in some parts and thriving on tourism in others. This is the Africa of the Africans, when outsiders were just beginning to encroach. Missionaries showed up (a white man–not an albino, someone says–riding an iron [...]
NOTE: BBC World Broadcast invited me to submit a question to Hisham Matar for their World Book Club interview. It broadcast on September 3, 2011. Mine is the VERY LAST QUESTION in this 53 minute interview. I would recommend the entire interview if you are interested in Libya, or in this outstanding writer—but at least, [...]
Win a Copy of This Book by commenting on this post. Destination: Africa Book: Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith (NEW December 2010) I enjoy hearing stories about the adventurers who busily mapped the globe around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In Crossing the Heart of [...]
Destination: Kenya, Africa Book: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai A GUEST POST by Gayle Pescud I was in a modern bookstore for the first time in months in January, getting well and truly high on the smell of new books (we live in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Region of Ghana, 18 hours from Accra, the capital), [...]
Today: An adventurous travel photographer, his young daughter–already a travel veteran, a project to spread cultural understanding that needs YOUR help, and three great travel literature suggestions.
The novel Heart of Darkness inspired Coppela to create the movie Apocalypse Now, and inspired Craig Martin to be more sensitive in his travels.
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