And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer.Based on Capstick's own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grass portrays the great killers of the African bush-- not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world-- underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view the Africa that few people have ever seen.

    It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture.Nearly a half century has passed since this savagely fought war ended in Algerian independence, and yet ,as Alistair Horne argues in his new preface to his now-classic work of history,its repercussions continue to be felt not only in Algeria and France, but throughout the world. Indeed from today's vantage point the Algerian War looks like a full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that now ravages the Middle East, from Beirut to Baghdad struggles in which questions of religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism take on a new and increasingly lethal intensity.A Savage War of Peace is the definitive history of the Algerian War, a book that brings that terrible and complicated struggle to life with intelligence, assurance, and unflagging momentum. It is essential reading for our own violent times as well as a lasting monument to the historian's art.

    Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.

    Then, as the play begins, the perspective shifts and reader becomes the real audience to this unique performance.

    It provides practical information on health, visas, transport and places to stay and eat.

    Indeed, Forbath has done an admirable job in this regard. The human association with this river, often witness to horrible blood baths (including some still in progress) is minutely documented here up to the mid-60s, from the 1st exploration of the W. African coast & the discovery of the mouth of the Congo by the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cao in 1482 to the immediate aftermath to independence--the Simba uprising. In all, the Congo River (called the Zaire for a time, now again the Congo) witnessed some of the bloodiest wars & genocides in recent history. Brought on to a large degree by the early slave trade, later misrule & cruelty under King Leopold (think "Heart of Darkness") & benign neglect from Belgium after Leopold, the Congo still suffers from man's inhumanity to man today. Yet at the same time the Congo is one of the mightiest of rivers & its basin encompasses some of the most biodiverse regions on earth, aside from the Amazon. Forbath, once a foreign correspondent, has written a classic & definitive history of a great tropical river, whose very name evokes dangerous & exotic imagery. To understand why the Congo has such a dark reputation, this is the book to read.--David B. Richman (edited)

    In December 1972, the director Peter Brook and an international troupe of actors (Helen Mirren and Yoshi Oida among them) left their Paris base to emerge again in the Sahara desert. It was the start of an 8,500-mile expedition through Africa without precedent in the history of theater. Brook was in search of a new beginning that has since been revealed in all his work--from Conference of the Birds and Carmen to The Mahabharata and beyond. At the heart of John Heilpern's brilliant account of the African experiment is a story that became a search for the miraculous.

    PROLEGOMENA 1. Introductionpage 3 2. The Sourcespage 12 3. The Early History of Oyopage 26PART II. THE OYO EMPIRE (c. 1600-c. 1790) 4. The Imperial Period: A Chronological Frameworkpage 47 5. The Capitalpage 61 6. The Oyo Kingdompage 83 7. The Heritage of Oduduwa: the Oyo Hegemony in Yorubalandpage 119 8. Tributaries in the North and Westpage 145 9. The Armypage 183 10. The Economics of Empirepage 201 11. Retrospect: the Rise of the Oyo Empirepage 237PART III. THE FALL OF THE OYO EMPIRE (c. 1790-c. 1836) 12. Collapse at the Centre (c. 1790-c. 1823)page 245 13. Disintegration at the Peripherypage 261 14. The Fall of Oyo (c. 1823-c. 1836)page 278PART IV. EPILEGOMENA 15. Comparisonspage 303

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    Describes the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb and the treasures found inside.

    It handles all major topics, with special focus on the dramatic changes that have occured since 1990.

    

    Saving the earth, animals