Von James Penhaligon
Taschenbuch: 584 Seiten
Verlag: Authorhouse
Auflage: 25. März 2010
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1449023738
ISBN-13: 978-1449023737
Preis: 23,99 €uro bei Amazon
Kurzbeschreibung
Born in Africa and raised on a remote gold-mine near Lake Victoria, James grew up "wild" and spoke Swahili before English. He gained a unique gaze on life, death, sadness and humour. With a family tragically affected by World War Two, and a father who died early because of his injuries, James, his sister and mother were left to the mercy of a gold mine with little use for them. His upbringing was mainly by a tribal ayah and an elderly Swahili man with pretensions beyond his station, but the soul and heart of a lion, who feared nobody, except his wife in Nubian-gin-inspired fury. James learnt to fish with home-made line and hooks, to eat insects, and, to the amusement of the watu, to abuse the European hierarchy on the mine in Swahili they did not understand. At boarding school in Arusha James befriended boys of different nations who were, in their separate ways, also outcasts or non conformers. He presented a dilemma to the teachers - a white boy with a "black spirit". His gang got up to nefarious enterprises, bringing them into a state of permanent conflict with the system. James became imbued with the history of Tanganyika, back to its time as the German Colony of Deutsch Ost Africa, which ended in 1918. The unparalleled courage and brilliance of the massively outnumbered German leader Oberstleutnant Paul von Lettow Vorbeck and his schutztruppe in the bush war against the British became a beacon to James of what can be accomplished, even in the most adverse of circumstances.
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Kritik aus dem Citizen vom 07.06.2010... However, when the book arrived in my office, the cover started telling a different story from what I had in mind, and I was compelled to open it. When I did that, open it I could not close it ...
... The book has a rich account of some of the world's most historical moments and events such as the World War 1 & II, Tanzania's Independence Day, times of colonialism, and more. All told to the author by people with first-hand experience of those events ...
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