Bøger om Afrika

Medrivende og sanselig slægtsroman om kvindeskæbner, kultursammenstød og kampen for frihed i Marokko. Om at finde sin egen identitet, både som ungt menneske og som land. "Se os danse" er andet bind i Leïla Slimanis slægtstrilogi, "De andres land", som er baseret på Leïla Slimanis egen familiehistorie.

An exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF's P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger's Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean.USAAF fighter pilots experienced a baptism of fire when flying the technically advanced but fragile P-38 Lightning over North Africa in the wake of 1942's Operation Torch. Their opponents were battle-hardened jagdflieger of the Jadgwaffe, flying the tried and tested Bf 109 in its very lastest Gustav iteration. Responsible primarily for escorting USAAF bombers attacking Afrika Korps installations in Tunisia, the P-38 units in North Africa had to develop effective tactics to defend the bombers against Luftwaffe fighter attacks. For several months the Lightning squadrons had to also cope with shortages of aircraft and spare parts, steady losses and a lack of replacement pilots. To survive, American aviators had to learn quickly. While it is difficult to definitively attribute victories in air combat, in the air battles over Tunisia and later over Sicily and Italy, the claims made by Lightning pilots were comparable to Luftwaffe claims for P-38s destroyed. Edward M. Young turns his attention to the bitterly fought air war in North Africa and the Mediterranean in 1942-43. Using original archival sources, official records and first-hand accounts from both USAAF and Luftwaffe veterans, as well as newly commissioned artwork and 50 carefully selected photographs from official and personal archives, this book sees two of the most iconic piston-engined fighters of their era pitted head-to-head for control of the skies in a key theatre of World War II.

Madagascar wildlife and travel guide. Introduction to the island's unique wildlife covering mammals, birds, chameleons, snakes, frogs and invertebrates, plus chapters on camouflage and nocturnal nature. Features wildlife hotspots in rainforests, dry forests and wetlands, including Masoala, Ranomafana, Ankarana, Isalo, Ifaty and the Betsiboka Delta.

KarenBlixen er omdrejningspunktet i denne fortælling om kærlighed oglivsskæbne. I cirkler omkring hende bevæger sig syv mænd, som hverisær beretter om voldsomme og afgørende hændelser i derestilværelse, ofte med det erotiske som et gennemgåendetræk.Romanens syv fortællere er:WilhelmDinesen: Far til Karen. En rastløs og modig soldat.ThomasDinesen: Blixens bror, en nær og loyal ven.Denys FinchHatton: Hendes store kærlighed.Farah Aden: Blixenshushovmester i Afrika.Thorkild Bjørnvig: Digter og KarenBlixens nære ven.Otto Casparsson: En svensk tjener ogvagabond.Mortende Coninck: Den rige købmandssøn fra fortællingen ”EtFamilieselskab i Helsingør”.p { line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; background: transparent }

A collection of 445 exciting and accessible recipes that celebrate North Africa's vibrant and diverse food culture Life in North Africa heavily revolves around that most important of passions, food. Drawing on Berber, Arabic, and Ottoman influences as well as French, Spanish, and Italian ones, this gorgeous cookbook explores the culinary diversity of the Maghreb, a region that spans Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. With 445 delicious and authentic North African dishes that can easily be recreated at home, this treasure trove of a book reveals an exciting cuisine that is as varied and fascinating as the countries it covers. Irresistible recipes and stunning photography bring the region to life, from the Atlantic and Mediterranean coast in the west and the north, across farmland, orchards, plateaus carpeted in wheat, and mountain peaks, to the great Sahara in the south and east. A series of essays scattered throughout the book introduce key ingredients and cultural traditions, adding extra depth to Jeff Koehler's compelling introduction, which celebrates food culture in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, as well as providing a brief history of North Africa itself.  From griddled flatbreads and zesty salads to aromatic tagines, grilled meat and fish, and honey-rich pastries,  The North African Cookboo k showcases an unprecedented and authoritative collection of traditional and contemporary recipes for the home cook from this most intriguing and varied of regions.

"The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities that have little relevance to our contemporary situations. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound spiritual text capable of speaking to us today. These writings suggest that the divine realm and the human realm are not altogether separate-they remind us that the natural world, and the substance of our lives, is fashioned from the stuff of the gods"--

The Rif War in rugged northern Morocco is remembered for romantic novels and films about the French Foreign Legion. In reality, the French intervention was late and secondary in importance to that of the Spanish.

Det Alexandrinske Selskab er en berygtet, ældgammel orden, og i den sidder verdens mest magtfulde magikere, der har svoret at beskytte antikkens hemmeligheder. Selskabets medlemmer er sikret uendelig rigdom, magt og prestige, og kun hvert tiende år kommer nye magikere i betragtning. Men kun fem af de seks kandidater går levende derfra.Ærkerivalerne Libby Rhodes og Nico de Varone kan kontrollere den fysiske verden, men ikke den ild, der brænder imellem dem; Reina Mori betvinger naturen og taler selve livets sprog; Parisa Kamali er tankelæser og mestrer forførelsens kunst; Tristan Caine er søn af en mafiaboss og besidder evnen til at læse universets hemmeligheder; og Callum Nova er en smuk, arrogant og velstående manipulator, som har magten til at forårsage jordens undergang.Kandidaterne rekrutteres af den mystiske Atlas Blakely, som meddeler, at kun fem vil få optag, mens én vil blive elimineret, og alle seks kandidater må hver især kæmpe for egen overlevelse.The Atlas Six – Initiativet er en adgangsbillet til en verden af magi, hvor hemmeligheder, forræderi, forførelse og uovertruffen magt lurer overalt.

This is a photographic guide to 136 East African plants with important medicinal applications. This fully revised edition of the book first published in 2010 features 600 photographs; updated species accounts; medicinal uses and remedies; and the pharmacological properties and chemistry of the various plant parts.

Here is plant-based Africa: more than 70 healthy and authentic recipes from 13 different African countries, including the author’s own home country of the Ivory Coast.

Originally published: Les damnâes de la terre. Paris: Franðcois Maspero âediteur, 1961.

"With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl"--

"First published in 1967, Ernest Cole's House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations of photographers around the globe. Reissued for contemporary audiences, this edition adds a chapter of unpublished work found in a recently resurfaced cache of negatives and recontextualizes this pivotal book for our time"--

"For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, ... European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe-- and extend their colonial empires. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier ... Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark ... There was a third man on both expeditions ... whose exploits were even more extraordinary. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India. When the man who purchased him died, he made his way into the local Sultan's army, and eventually traveled back to Africa, where he used his resourcefulness, linguistic prowess and raw courage to forge a living as a guide. Without Bombay and men like him, ... neither Englishman would have come close to the headwaters of the Nile, or perhaps even survived"--Publisher marketing.

"Ich sehe Alligatoren mit Posaunen!" - Muhammad Ali; Kinshasa, 1974Die Zutaten hätten dramatischer nicht sein können: Inszeniert von einem kriminellen Boxpromoter mit Sturmfrisur (Don King) im Reich eines Diktators mit Leopardenfellmütze (Mobutu), trafen am 30. Oktober 1974 in Kinshasa im damaligen Zaire zwei Boxer aufeinander, um sich einen epischen Kampf zu liefern. Der eine war Muhammad Ali, der seine besten Jahre hinter sich hatte, aber entschlossen war, den verlorenen Weltmeistertitel zurückzuerobern. Der andere war George Foreman, der so wortkarg war wie Ali wortgewaltig und als klarer Favorit gehandelt wurde. Millionen Fernsehzuschauer auf der ganzen Welt verfolgten diese spektakuläre Titanenschlacht mit überraschendem Ausgang, die als Rumble in the Jungle in die Geschichte einging.In Kinshasa mit dabei war auch das "Enfant terrible" der amerikanischen Literaturszene, der Starautor und Pulitzer-Preisträger Norman Mailer, der seine Eindrücke und Beobachtungen ein Jahr später unter dem Titel The Fight veröffentlichte, eine literarische Reportage von rund 250 Seiten.In unserer Hommage an das legendärste Boxereignis aller Zeiten erscheint Mailers Text in einer gekürzten Fassung, eingeleitet von einem Essay des Mailer-Experten J. Michael Lennon und erstmals bebildert mit Farb- und Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien jener beiden Männer, die wie keine anderen Ali sowohl im Ring als auch im Privatleben im Bild festhielten: Howard L. Bingham und Neil Leifer.

In an exhilarating account of his 21-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, Robert Sapolsky interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti--for man and beast alike.

A revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt.In 1993, German robotics engineer Rudolf Gatenbrink discovered a sealed door within the Great Pyramid of Giza--a door left unopened for 4,500 years. With this discovery, Robert Bauval--who spent the decade prior to the discovery researching the pyramids--and Adrian Gilbert used astronomical data to reveal that more than just tombs, the pyramids were created to serve as a gateway to the stars; in the process, they uncovered what they believe to be the key to the plan that governed the construction of the great pyramids: the Orion Constellation."[An] absorbing and fascinating work of archaeological detection...clearly and rivetingly told...the book is highly and compulsively readable."--London Sunday Times.