Review “[A] moving study.” — Independent (UK) –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia’s economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the…
Zambia: A Story by Fabio Caramaschi [Paperback]
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Fabio Caramaschi lives and works in Rome, but he leaves as often as he can, travelling and telling, in words and images, the stories of the people he meets: “I no longer know if I take photographs in order to travel, or if I travel in order to take photographs.” This voyage in words and…
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness [Paperback]
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From Publishers Weekly Each year from 1973 to 1985, an estimated 1000 elephants were slaughtered in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley for their ivory tusks, skin, tails and feet; in 1991, only 12 were killed in this fashion. No little credit for saving the elephants is due to the Owenses (Cry of the Kalahari), biologists who set…
Basic Facts on Zambia [Paperback]
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Zambia is a landlocked country in Central/Southern Africa, surrounded by eight neighbours. From the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River to the southern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the north, and from Chipata in the east to Kalabo in the west, Zambia is a country of a variety of ecological zones, shaped by plateaus and…
Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia [Paperback]
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When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing…
Zambia and Victoria Falls Travel Map (Globetrotter Travel Map) [Folded Map] [Map]
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The highly successful “Globetrotter Travel Series”, which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best Of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide.”The Globetrotter Travel Map of Zambia and Victoria Falls” caters specifically for the needs of tourists who are new to a destination. The town plans…
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa [Paperback]
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From Publishers Weekly Although doctors diagnosed Swiller’s deafness early enough to fit him with hearing aids, the young man from Mantattan’s Upper West Side still felt different. As a young adult he drifted from college to college, job to job, relationship to relationship, never quite finding what he was looking for: a place beyond deafness.…
Zambia in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series) [Library Binding]
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Zambia and Victoria Falls Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs) [Paperback]
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The highly successful “Globetrotter Travel Series”, which includes ‘Travel Guides’, ‘Travel Maps’, ‘Road Atlases’, ‘Best Of Pocket Guides’ and ‘In Your Pocket Language Guides’, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover version of the foldout Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed…
Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia) [Paperback]
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This is one of the most realistic and passionate contemporary novels about the life of young people in today’s Africa, written by Malama Katulwende, a young Zambian poet and intellectual. It describes the seeming incompatibility of old African traditions and modern life, depicts the political struggle of Zambia’s students, and the hope and despair of…
