books about: kenya

books about: kenya

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Kenya

Juliana Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, ...

Scholastic, 2008

Enthustiastic chest thumps!
Moving, inspiring, informative, beautifully illustrated, and very, very important. This is a true story about one family of mountain gorillas, living in the Virunga National Forest (currently occupied by rebel army forces) and their attempts to return a lost orphan to ...

The Winter Rose

Jennifer Donnelly

Hyperion, 2008

Winter Rose - Amazing Follow Up
Of all the novels that I read in the past year, this one stood out. The story is fascinating with a wonderfully developed heroine. The author does a fantastic job in creating a very likeable heroine/hero. It's the 2nd book in the "tea" series and I could not have ...

Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)

Wangari Maathai

Anchor, 2007

Stunning story of hope and action
Maathai is the first African woman and the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize-in 2004. Masthai's life is inspiring-from her humble beginnings as a child laborer on the plantation of a white English colonial farm with her family, to her early ...

Bill Bryson's African Diary

Bill Bryson

Broadway, 2002

A Brilliant Entry and for a Great Cause
Bill Bryson is the funniest travel writer working today, I believe, and even when he takes on what is an unpleasant task - visiting one of the most depressed areas of the world in order to raise funds for CARE, he does it in a hilarious way. In this short little ...

Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa

Jeanette Winter

Harcourt Children's Books, 2008

This is one "get-it-done" woman
"The earth was naked. For me the mission was to try to cover it with green." - Wangari Maathai Growing up in the shadow of Mount Kenya in Africa, Wangari is surrounded by an umbrella of green trees. The trees protect the birds, provide firewood to the women of the ...

The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality

Jerome R. Corsi

Threshold Editions, 2008

Eye-Opening and Straight Forward
Corsi gets straight to the point with direct and well-researched material that should give all Obama supporters pause. Obama is an enigma and probably the most dangerous person to ever run for president.

Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship

Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu

Scholastic Press, 2006

An Astonishing Story on Friendship and Resilience
The well-written book portrays a heart-warming story about friendship. Mzee's love and guidance, along with Owen's resilience, proves that Science can't always explain what brings species together. The book contains factual material, as partially told by the general ...

Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940
Nigel Pavitt

W. W. Norton, 2008

Extraordinary photographs, along with extensive captions, document the transition from a barely explored paradise to a modern nation. This stunning collection of 720 photographs, many of them drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully restored, is one of the most important visual records of Africa in the late nineteenth and ...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama

Crown, 2007

Dreams from my Father
I highly recommend this book. It provides a unique insight into Barack Obama's strong character.

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa

Nicholas Drayson

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

"For the last three years Mr. Malik...had been passionately in love with Rose Mbikwa."
As you wing into the fictive delights of Nicholas Drayson's A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, you might wish to keep the Princeton Field Guide illustrations of these colorful aviary wonders at your elbow. Mr. Malik and others in the novel describe spying (or hoping ...

Out of Africa (Modern Library)

Isak Dinesen

Modern Library, 1992

"Out of Africa": The Book, the Movie, the Feminist
The book, "Out of Africa," is a memoir of the Danish Baroness Karen Blixen's habitation near Nairobi in Kenya from 1914 to 1931 on a fertile 6000-acre coffee plantation, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills" (1992: 3). Blixen writes under the pen-name Isak Dinesen. Karen ...

Fodor's The Complete African Safari Planner, 1st Edition: With Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa & ...
Fodor's

Fodor's, 2008

FODOR?S THE COMPLETE AFRICAN SAFARI PLANNER Everything You Need to Plan the Adventure of a Lifetime Fodor?s full-color travel guide can help make your trip to Africa unforgettable with 8 pages of detailed maps, magazine-style illustrated features, 125 stunning photos, and all the practical information you need. Customize your trip with ...

Owen & Mzee: Language Of Friendship

Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu

Scholastic Press, 2007

Owen & Mzee a Wonderful Book
I got this book for my 4 year old niece. As an animal lover, I knew she would be charmed, but I didn't expect the adults to be so enthralled. Everyone who picks up this book gets caught up in the story and pictures. Thank you.

The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiography

Tepilit Ole Saitoti

University of California Press, 1988

sitting here with the author
I read this book 12 years ago and was so moved that I wrote a letter to to the author - something I have never done before or since. I was so struck by his ability to navigate between two cultures that seemingly had little in common. His book is a testimonial to the ...

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Elspeth Huxley

Penguin Classics, 2000

Truly A Classic
In 1913, a little English girl named Elspeth relocated with her family from their native country to begin a coffee plantation in the wilds of Kenya. Similar in a way to Laura Ingall Wilder's adventurous and sentimental "take" on what was surely a very difficult ...