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2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Bio V111a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From and a GG winner for non-fiction for his previous memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa - a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land. From a description of Zanzibar and its evolution to a visit to a slave-market town at Lake Tanganyika; Vassanji combines brilliant prose, thoughtful and candid observations. Born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania, Canadian author M.G. Vassanji is a two-time Giller Fiction Prize winner, for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. He lives in Toronto.
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2009., Macmillan Call No: Fic Smi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: ADVENTURE / THRILLER. It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
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By Jeal, Tim2011., Yale University Press Call No: 962 J43e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge. Showing extreme courage and resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, Samuel Baker, Florence von Sass, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and reputations in the fierce competition. Award-winning author Tim Jeal deploys fascinating new research to provide a vivid tableau of the unmapped 'Dark Continent,' its jungle deprivations, and the courage--as well as malicious tactics--of the explorers. On multiple forays launched into east and central Africa, the travelers passed through almost impenetrable terrain and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, paralysis, malaria, deep spear wounds, and even death. They discovered Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria and became the first white people to encounter the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro. Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail and examines the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still casts a long shadow over the people of Uganda and Sudan."--Publisher's website.
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2014., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Bio G954.03g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A biography of Mohandas Gandhi with a focus on the time he spent in South Africa and England before his return to India in 1915.
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c2012., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Vas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two-time Giller Prize winner Vassanji returns to the rich and haunting world of his most acclaimed, prize-winning novels, the East African coast. The haunting story of Kamal, a successful Canadian doctor who, in middle age and after decades in North America, decides to return to his homeland of East Africa to find his childhood sweetheart, Saida. Kamal's journey is motivated by a combination of guilt, hope, and the desire to unravel the mysteries of his childhood.
