A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade. An African Love Story" is the incredible memoir of her life. It tells two stories. The first is the Tsavo years & the extraordinary love story which blossomed when the young Daphne moved to Tsavo with her first husband & fell head over heels with both the park & its famous warden David Sheldrick. The second is the love story of how Daphne & David who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive." ...

Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance life & elephants An African Love Story: Love Life & Elephants" is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist. A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade. An " African Love Story" is the incredible memoir of her life. It tells two stories
- one is the extraordinary love story which blossomed when Daphne fell head over heels with Tsavo Game Park & its famous warden David Sheldrick. The second is the love story of how Daphne & David who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive. " Compulsively readable". (" Mail on Sunday"). " An enchanting memoir." (" Telegraph"). Daphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. For over 25 years she & her husband David the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park raised & rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. These included elephants rhinos buffaloes zebra eland kudu impala warthogs & many other smaller animals. In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen."
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Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English the writer who opened the magic casements of African fiction for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart" Everyman republish Achebes first & most famous novel alongside " No Longer at Ease" & " Arrow of God" under the collective title " The African Trilogy". In " Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo strong man & tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity & colonialism. In " No Longer at Ease" Okonkwos grandson Obi educated in England returns to a civil-service job in colonial Lagos only to clash with the ruling elite to which he now believes he belongs. Arrow of God is set in the 1920s & explores the conflict from the two points of view
- often but not always opposing
- of Ezuelu an Igbo priest & Captain Winterbottom a British district officer. In spare & lucid prose Achebe tellsa universal tale of personal & moral struggle in a changing world which continues to resonate in Africa today & has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere."

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The African violet (Saintpaulia) continues to increase in popularity having developed over the last fifty years from its few hundred varieties to the thousands that exist today in an ever-increasing range of colour & type. This guide

Includes:: chapters on the plant's history development & classification & provides practical information & advice on propagation general care hybridization & the prevention & treatment of pests & diseases. Written in a non-technical style it seeks to explode the myth that African violets are difficult to grow.

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In The African Wars Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers & the native peoples of tropical & sub-tropical Africa in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries. His pioneering & authoritative study describes in vivid detail the organization & training of African warriors their weapons their fighting methods & traditions & their tactics. He concentrates on the campaigns mounted by the most successful African armies as they struggled to defend themselves against the European scramble for Africa. Resistance was inconsistent but some warlike peoples fought long & hard
- the Zulu victory over the British at Isandhlwana is the best known but by no means the only occasion when the Africans humiliated the colonial invaders. Chris Peers is a leading expert on the history of the armies of nineteenth-century Africa & has written widely on the subject. He has also compiled a series of books on the armies of China. He has contributed many articles to military history wargaming & family history magazines & his major publications include Warlords of China 700BC-AD1662 Warrior Peoples of East Africa & Soldiers of the Dragon.
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Mark Steyns New York Times" bestseller " After America" is now in paperback! Featuring a new introduction & updated throughout " After America" takes on Obamas disastrous plan for our nation & reveals exactly what a post-American world will look like if we dont change our ways soon. Says Steyn: " Nothing is certain but debt & taxes. & then more debt. If the government of the United States had to use GAAP (" The Generally Accepted Accounting Practices" that your company & the publisher of this book have to use) Uncle Sam would be under an SEC investigation & his nephews & nieces would have taken away the keys & cut up his credit card". Slim as it is however Steyn argues there is still hope. " Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea-of limited government a self-reliant citizenry & the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest-or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline. This is a battle for the American idea & its an epic one but you can do anything you want to do. So do it." Bitingly funny & wickedly clever " After America" is Mark Steyn at his best." ...

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday & sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck her own determination & the love & protection of her mother Fritzi who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated Eva & Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father & brother from whom they had been separated. The news came some months later. Tragically both men had been killed. Before the war in Amsterdam Eva had become friendly with a young girl called Anne Frank. Though their fates were very different Eva's life was set to be entwined with her friend's for ever more after her mother Fritzi married Anne's father Otto Frank in 1953. This is a searingly honest account of how an ordinary person survived the Holocaust. Eva's memories & descriptions are heartbreakingly clear her account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be. But this is also an exploration of what happened next of Eva's struggle to live with herself after the war & to continue the work of her step-father Otto ensuring that the legacy of Anne Frank is never forgotten. ...

Osama bin Laden is dead but al-Qaida remains the CIAs number one threat. With branches in strategic hotspots from Yemen & Somalia to North Africa & an increasing influence among home grown jihadis in the West journalist & al-Qaida expert Abdel Bari Atwan investigates how the organisation has survived all attempts to destroy it. Al-Qaida after bin Laden has expanded its reach by cementing new alliances & exploiting the opportunities regional turmoil affords. The Arab Spring has opened new battlegrounds for jihadists particularly in Libya the Sahel Syria & Egypt. As the extremist zeal for a global caliphate shows no sign of abating Atwan profiles the next generation of foot soldiers & leaders & explores the new methods they embrace in the pursuit of jihad in a digital age. ...

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee & glances up from a book as a young man a musician intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. Later Mari is interrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel; a Chinese prostitute has been hurt by a client the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Chinese & requests her help. Meanwhile Eri is at home & sleeps a deep heavy sleep that is too perfect too pure to be normal; pulse & respiration at the lowest required level. She has been in this soporific state for two months; Eri has become the classic myth
- a sleeping beauty. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00 a faint electrical crackle is perceptible a hint of life flickers across the TV screen though the televisions plug has been pulled. Strange nocturnal happenings or a trick of the night?
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A thousand years ago humanity abandoned Earth after an environmental apocalypse engulfed the globe. In the ensuing centuries the survivors settled on a hospitable planet called Nova Prime withstood an onslaught from a mysterious alien force & carved out a new home in the farthest reaches of the galaxy. This is the fractured home to which General Cypher Raige of the United Ranger Corps returns after an extended tour of duty. For Kitrai his thirteen-year-old son tagging along with his famous father is the adventure of a lifetime
- & a chance to salvage their relationship. When an asteroid collides with their craft they make a crash landing that leaves Cypher seriously
- perhaps fatally
- wounded. Kitai Raige has always wanted to prove that he has what it takes to be a Ranger. Now all too soon he gets his chance. With his father's life on the line Kitai must venture out into the strange hostile terrain of a new world that seems eerily familiar: Earth.


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