African tales

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Tales of an African Vet by Roy Aronson. SIGNED COPY. Dr Roy Aronson, an experienced veterinarian, takes the reader with him on his adventures through the South African bush, urban vet practices and animal sanctuaries. Photos, sketches. Arrowvet Publishers, 2007, 201p. Condition:   soft cover, Very good condition. Signed by author with message” To Ferdi and Evan with thanks, Roy Aronson.” Packaging and Postage R55 (in S.A.)   POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON MONDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH A S TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE. Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R55 and R8 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BO    

Buy AFRICAN SKY STORIES A collection of African folk tales Editor: Rob Marsh for R20.00

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Aimed at children everywhere, this wonderful collection of folk tales that find their origins in tribes from all over Africa, have been retold by Dianne Stewart. These include legends such as 'How Lion and Warthog became Enemies' from the Lamba, 'How Giraffe Acquired His Long Neck' from east Africa, 'Why Hippopotamus Lives in the Water' from Nigeria and 'Monkey the Musician' from South Africa. There are tales from the San, the Zulu, Zambia, Congo and West Africa, et al. At the end of each section - devoted to a type of animal - there are facts about the animal in question, adding to the educational value of the stories. The book is beautifully illustrated by Kathy Pienaar with great attention to detail. Features Summary Aimed at children across the African continent, this collection of folk tales find their origins in tribes from all over Africa. Author Dianne Stewart (Author), Kathy Pienaar (Illustrator) Publisher Struik Publishers Release date 20041101 Pages 143 ISBN 1-86872-951-6 ISBN 13 978-1-86872-951-7

THE CALABASH CHILD AFRICAN FOLK TALES adapted and Retold by DIANA PITCHER;  Hardcover; David Philip  Cape Town Illustrated by Meg Rutherford Third Impression 1984 ISBN 0 908 396 34 1; No of Pages;64 For more information and list of Contents please see all the photographs " pasted " below. Very good condition with no inscriptions added - clean For tracked postage via SA PO ans within SA please add R50.00   or via Postnet to Postnet (with combined weight of up to 5kg) then please add R105.00,Buyers from outside of S A please contact me for a postal quote.

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days This title features the short stories written by South Africans from all walks of life over a period of a hundred years. From the oral traditions of the San and other African peoples, right through to the most modern writers of the twenty-first century, Chapman has selected the best of this interesting and much loved genre. Some of the old favourites and standards from A Century of South African Short Stories, which had three different editions, remain. Previously unpublished stories have been found and added, and have resulted in an unprecedented treasury of wonderful tales. Features Summary This title features the short stories written by South Africans from all walks of life over a period of a hundred years. Author Michael Chapman Publisher Ad Donker Publishers Release date 20040430 Pages 353 ISBN 0-86852-227-9 ISBN 13 978-0-86852-227-2

Rosenthal, Eric. THE HINGES CREAKED. True Stories Of South African Treasure Lost And Found. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1951. First Edition. Tales of treasure lost and treasure found in South Africa and around its coast. 201pp., illustrated. Very Good. Corners lightly bumped, pages tanned with some minor foxing to textblock's edges, in Very Good, somewhat edgeworn, with closed tear and price clipped, dust-jacket. Original yellow cloth. (##2396)

Hardback. English. W P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell. 1888. ISBN: N/A. 256pp with frontis and engraved plates. Good condition in splendidly decorated linen-covered boards, some wear to edges, new eps fitted, slight foxing to tp. Rousing tales of the great explorers, hunting in the annals of the Dark Continent. Book No: 27402

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours "At the Fireside Vol. 3" is Roger Webster's fourth book in his best selling series of stories from southern Africa. In this volume, he continues to retell colourful stories that reawaken aspects of South Africa's remarkable history. All of the stories are written in Roger Webster's typically compelling language with the hue of his ever popular radio personality. The unbelievable success of the "At the Fireside" series is a clear indication that audiences are thirsty for more such phenomenal tales from a fresh perspective. The need for more is seen, especially as popular history continues to be at the fore with the various peoples of South Africa lifting the veil on factors that have shaped the country's history. Features Summary In this volume the author continues to retell colourful stories that reawaken aspects of South Africa's remarkable history. Author Roger Webster Publisher Spearhead Press Release date 20051031 Pages 168 ISBN 0-86486-582-1 ISBN 13 978-0-86486-582-3

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Features Summary African tales for children about the animal kingdom and the many lessons it can teach us. Author Les Oelofse (Author), Louise Hansen (Illustrator) Publisher Lezulu Publishing Release date 20060111 Pages 32 ISBN 0-620-33531-9 ISBN 13 978-0-620-33531-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days A collection of thrilling fishing tales that will take you to 100 remarkable fishing destinations from Alaska to Australia From epic offshore battles to the peace and calm of fly fishing, this stunning coffee-table book will inspire and excite with tales of adventure ranging from secret African rivers to idyllic tropical islands. Follow along as fishermen fight monsters from the depths of the Pacific or compete against the best in competitive fishing in the US. Anglers of every sort with treasure this masterful collection of the world's most exciting fishing adventures. Features Summary A collection of thrilling fishing tales that will take you to 100 remarkable fishing destinations from Alaska to Australia. From epic offshore battles to the peace and calm of fly fishing... Author Henry Gilbey Publisher John Wiley & Sons Release date 20120817 Pages 204 ISBN 1-119-96266-8 ISBN 13 978-1-119-96266-3

 From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in the landscape, this collection demonstrates the wealth and variety of African folk tales and the particular magic of Africa's spiritual roots. Simple, surprising and humorous, these beautifully rendered tales demonstrate McCall Smith's renowned storytelling skill and his love for Africa, and remain as fresh and vital as in the original idiom. Soft cover, excellent condition.  Only slight foxing.  174 pages.

Hunger For Freedom Food has provided the backdrop and occasionally the primary cause for momentous personal and political events in the life of Nelson Mandela. This innovative approach to history shows that a great man's life can be measured out in mouthfuls, both bitter and sweet. With this book, the reader can cook and taste Nelson Mandela's journey from the corn grinding stone of his boyhood through wedding cakes and curries to prison hunger strikes, presidential banquets and ultimately into a dotage marked by the sweetest of just desserts. Tales told in sandwiches, sugar and samoosas speak eloquently of intellectual awakenings, emotional longings and always the struggle for racial equality. About the Author Anna Trapido trained as an anthropologist at King's College Cambridge and completed her PhD in the Department of Community Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She qualified as a chef at the Prue Leith Chef's Academy in Centurion. She combines her culinary and cultural interests in her work. She has worked in garde manger, pastry departments, confectionary and catering companies in South Africa, England, Switzerland and India. She is a food writer, broadcaster and the co-author of To the Banqueting House: African Cuisine ? an epic journey which won the Gold Medal at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards, Beijing in 2007. Trapido is the editor of Dine: Top 100 Restaurant Guide. She previously taught garde manger and culinary French and is now responsible for the Pan African cuisine programme at the Prue Leith Chef's Academy. Author Anna Trapido ISBN 9781431402977 Format Paperback Pages 216p.

I ndaba my Children by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa FIRST EDITION Indaba, My Children   is a collection of African folk tales andlegends that chart the story of African tribal life since the time of the Phoenicians  In 1963, Mutwa   was officially proclaimed High Witch doctor but the following year he broke his sacred tribal oath of secrecy by writing Indaba, My Children.   Indaba, My Children is a classic and indispensable resource for anyone interested in the cultural life of Africa.  Blue Crane Books, 1964, FIRST EDITION,. 562p. Illustration of frontispages. Condition:   Hard blue linen cover with top edge faded, no dust jacket, very  slight edge frayed, age yellowing, good condition.    Packaging and Postage R65 (in S.A.)   due to weight. POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON MONDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH A S TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE. Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R55 and R8 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BOB page.

 Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #2) by Alexander McCall Smith. There are 5 available at R20 each   "This is a superior piece of detective fiction, written in simple, direct but effective prose. Perhaps most importantly, this novel offers a refreshingly positive picture of an African nation - and probably deserves a wide audience in the West on those grounds alone." In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement.  Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids and a challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son, who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to that most gentlemanly of men, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of her secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and new additions to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.  

Various Books for Sale. The Cat Clinical Medicine and Management by susan e little R300 The Complete Book of Formula One - Simon Arron and Mark Hughes (hardcover) R100 the complete chronicles of narnia c s lewis R200 the south african fisherman by Ivor Whibley and Pat Garratt R80 the unofficial complete encyclopedia of formula one updated for mark hughes (hardcover) R100 various short stories - Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (hardcover) R40 all prices are negotiable. Contact whatsapp, phone calls and emails welcome. NO SMS.

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer. Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. Dispatched within 3 business days. Our books are protected with a removable plastic cover and sent with care. Condition: Good. In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five siblings; and of her own passage to the West. "Nine autobiographical tales that move easily back and forth among Pakistan, Britain, and the United States.... She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply into the history of her family and friends.... The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing." —Daniel Wolfe, New York Times Book Review "A jewel of insight and beauty.... Suleri's voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes." —Rone Tempest, Los Angeles Times Book Review " The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs." —Anita Desai, Washington Post Book World " Meatless Days takes the reader through a Third World that will surprise and confound him even as it records the author's similar perplexities while coming to terms with the West. Those voyages Suleri narrates in great strings of words and images so rich that they left this reader... hungering for more." —Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "Dazzling.... Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie's phantasmagorical Pynchon." —Henry Louise Gates, Jr., Voice Literary Supplement Bibliographic information: Title Meatless Days Authors Sara Suleri, Sara Suleri Goodyear Edition Hardback Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1990 ISBN 0002154080, 9780002154086 Length 186 pages Please Click ---> HERE PTO Books is selling.

The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde I sat there divided. Though my grandfather was visibly shaken by the force of this memory, and I knew I was seeing him more vulnerable than I had ever seen him, I felt a bubbly thrill because this was such good stuff, and I remember turning my eyes away from his distressed face to make sure the wheels of the dictaphone were still turning. When Daniel is tasked with writing the biography of his grandfather, Jules Browde - one of South Africa's most celebrated advocates - he sharpens his pencil and gets to work. But the task that at first seems so simple comes to overwhelm him. As the book begins to recede - month after month, year after year - he must face the possibility of disappointing his grandfather, whose legacy now rests uncomfortably in his hands. The troubled progress of Daniel's book stands in sharp contrast to the clear-edged tales his grandfather tells him. Spanning almost a century, these gripping stories compellingly conjure other worlds: the streets of 1920s Yeoville, the battlefields of the Second World War, the courtrooms of apartheid South Africa. The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde turns the conventions of a biography inside out. It is more than the portrait of an unusual South African life, it is the moving tale of a complex and tender relationship between grandfather and grandson, and an exploration of how we are made and unmade in the stories we tell about our lives. Author Daniel Browde ISBN 9781868427208 Format Paperback Pages 310p.

Paperback. English. Kif Komiks. 2014. In fair/good condition. An anthology of real life in prison stories. Young men tell their tales of prison life in South African jails. A project created by the support programme, younginprison.org.za. Black and white.

*Signed* 1st Edition.Africa - In The Footsteps of the Great Explorers - Kingsley Holgate Book is in VG Condition. No tears, folds etc..Pages clean crisp and white!! Fans of Kingsley Holgate and his wild adventures, tackled fearlessly with his wife Gill and son Ross and a varying band of expedition members, will relish this series of epic exploits. Always game to venture where many before him have feared to tread, Kingsley and his entourage have set out to honor those tough, courageous early explorers of the African continent. David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, Frederick Courtney Selous, John Hanning Speke and others all faced starvation, fever and often death to open up Africa to the Western world. Like these brave and tenacious individuals, the Holgate party tackle mighty rivers such as the Nile, Congo, Rovuma and Ru ji, negotiating angry rapids, thrashing with crocodiles and startling territorial hippos. Circumnavigating Africa's greatest lakes - Niassa, Victoria and Tanganyika - they battle demonic high winds and water, and endure the blistering furnace of the desolate lava-bouldered Jade Sea's shores. These are tales of such daring, courage and endurance that it is impossible for readers to tire of the Holgate family's high adventures. The adventures are illustrated with photographs, line drawings and historical maps.

Stories of Africa, in isiNdebele, by Gcina Mhlophe. Hardcover Now in reprint, this folklore story collection offers a feast of enjoyment for young readers. It contains ten enchanting tales, steeped in the imaginative richness of African oral tradition.

THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma's secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. * TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE was selected as one of the GUARDIAN's top ten 'Fiction Paperbacks of the Year, 2000

Published by Jonathan Ball, 2010 Softcover, Trade Paperback Two remarkable tales woven together - the story of the Kaokoveld, an arid eden in the remote north-west of Namibia, so nearly lost, but regained to become one of Africa's iconic wildlife tourism destinations, and also the story of a young man's search for an African way to do conservation in Africa. Pages xiv + 610 including index and with sixteen pages of monochrome and thirty-two pages of colour illustrations. If selecting Post Office delivery please add an extra R10

WET BREAMS by BILL TAYLOR ; Softcover; published by  Sheltom Zimbabwe;  Second Edition 2002                             ISBN 0 7974 2358 3 ;        No. of Pages; 216  Very good condition clean, no damage or inscriptions added. For postage via SA PO (option 1)   and within SA please add R50.00  alternatively via Postnet to Postnet for a total combined weight of up to 5kg then please add R100.00. Buyers from outside of S A please contact me for a postal quote. " Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow up with the wilds of Africa in your back yard ?  Bill Taylor, the author of Wet Breams, was raised in East Africa. Although he was the son of a Seventh Day Adventist missionary doctor and was sent away to England, South Africa, France, and the United States for most of his formal education, he was allowed to run wild in the bush around his boyhood home. Wet Breams is an anecdotal collection of memoirs about his unusual life. Most of the stories are uproariously funny. They entertain like tall tales, but in Taylor's case, the stories are (mostly, I suspect) true. Take for example the time as a teenager when he managed to live for three months within a herd of elephants. In order to be accepted by the herd, he first had to take off all his clothes and cover himself in elephant dung. In this state, he then had to hang out around the edge of the herd for over three days before the elephants would allow him to walk among them. William Holmes Taylor holds a degree in Biology and a Doctorate in Dental Surgery. The African bush is his passion and the place where he spends most of his time and energy. Dentistry is merely one of his on-again-off-again hobbies, a labor of necessity, not a labor of love. 

 There's a secret hid away - Lawrence G. Green -  1981, reprint - Hard cover in very good condition -Internally clean and tight. There's a secret hid away: memories of unusual experiences and mysteries in southern Africa and African isles; strange tales and legends and unrecorded adventures; and people who crossed the author's path and left him wondering.