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One beat of a butterfly's heart : a Tanganyika police notebook /
In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police officer, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, firs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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South Africa :
30° South Publishers (Pty) Ltd.,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police officer, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, first-hand account of a rare period of recent history. It tellshow an Australian veteran, fresh from the Korean War, became a colonial police officer in Tanganyika Territory (later Tanzania after federation with the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 1964). The reader is taken on a journey which tourists in Africa never see: from back alleys and police cells in the polyglot city of Dar es Salaam, to snake-infested camps on Uganda-Ruanda border patrols, and on police field force emergency operations from barracks at the foot of Kilimanjaro. Stories of war, love and many things in between. His stories range from Germany to Korea, Malaysia to Mexico, Japan to Australia. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
| ISBN: | 9781928211204 1928211208 |