Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Africa - General

Have you ever thought of volunteering to live and work in a developing country to really get to know the people, land and customs? This is the story of Norene's year of teaching in the northern part of Namibia in a village school, her work experiences and travel opportunities in this country and other countries in Africa. She fell in love with the students and adults. She gained valuable insights and left feeling she gained much more than she gave. It is an experience she will always treasure.

Have you ever thought of volunteering to live and work in a developing country to really get to know the people, land and customs? This is the story of Norene's year of teaching in the northern part of Namibia in a village school, her work experiences and travel opportunities in this country and other countries in Africa. She fell in love with the students and adults. She gained valuable insights and left feeling she gained much more than she gave. It is an experience she will always treasure.

National Geographic's Morocco Adventure Map provides global travelers with the perfect combination of detail and perspective, highlighting hundreds of points of interest and the unique and exotic destinations within the country. This expertly crafted map includes the locations of thousands of cities and towns with an index for easily locating them, plus a clearly marked road network complete with distances and designations for motorways, dual carriageways, major roadways, scenic routes, and more. In addition to typical sites of interest...

Swahili (from Tanzania) meets Setswana (from Botswana). This book provides translations for words, phrases and simple sentences in Swahili and Setswana against the English language. The English language serves as a medium for those who neither understand Swahili nor Setswana, thus making it easy for anyone who understands English to learn any of the two African languages together. Any traveler to Eastern or Southern Africa will find this book useful. You may purchase your copy at a bookstore in Tanzania, Botswana or South Africa; or buy your copy online in ebook format from selected...

If, as they say, we all come out of Africa, then somewhere in Kenya's Rift Valley we first learned to live as human beings and we quickly learned to quarrel, too. Migration patterns within Kenya are as complicated as any in the U.S. or Europe and its multi-ethnic history is much, much longer. Fr. Baraza, knows both the brightness of human progress in a peaceful countryside as well as the shadows left by war and fighting. He writes about how to resolve conflicts and difficulties by people who have had long life experience.

"Drumming Up Dialogue" applies the thinking of three leading...

Ibn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of nineteen he set out on his travels that were eventually to take him over 75,000 miles through all of the Muslim world.

His book, in which he describes the cultural life and beauty of those times, remains one of the most famous of all travel narratives.

The value of the work to historians and students is beyond question, but perhaps its true worth lies in the freshness of its narrative style. Throughout, we are aware of the author's own human and compassionate insights and, even...