Tales Of Togo

Author : Meredith Pike-Baky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950444137
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Togo written by Meredith Pike-Baky and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an idealistic young woman sets off in 1971 to live and work in a remote community in sub-Saharan Africa? Propelled by campaigns at home for peace, social justice and racial equality, she joins the Peace Corps and requests a position in the north of Togo, far from the capital city. Once in Africa, her revolutionary zeal is challenged by others who embrace America and its politics. She encounters unfamiliar authoritarianism in a school run by European nuns and reframes her opinion of men in uniform when she falls in love with a policeman. She works hard to fit in, hiring "boys" for help, traveling in mammy wagons, busses and trucks over murderously bumpy roads. She practices expressions in four languages to greet, bargain and teach. Her efforts introduce her to family roles and cultural practices that are shocking. She comes face-to-face with life-threatening illness. Her adventures reveal curiosity and creativity that keep her afloat and result in adaptation and appreciation. She is transformed in the process.

Author : Robert J. Blake
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399233814
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Togo written by Robert J. Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Togo wasn't meant to be a sled dog. He was too feisty and independent to make a good team member, let alone a leader. But Togo is determined, and when his trainer, Leonhard Seppala, gives him a chance, he soon becomes one of the fastest sled dogs in history! His skills are put to the ultimate test, though, when Seppala and his team are called on to make the now-famous run across the frozen Arctic to deliver the serum that will save Alaska from a life-threatening outbreak of diphtheria. In the style of Akiak, winner of the Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, along with five state awards, Robert J. Blake's detailed, carefully researched oil paintings complete the story of the adventure that inspired the internationally famous Iditarod race.

Author : Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322882
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An African in Greenland written by Tété-Michel Kpomassie and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all.

Author : Pam Flowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578337453
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Togo and Leonhard written by Pam Flowers and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gay Salisbury
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393325709
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cruelest Miles written by Gay Salisbury and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the 1925 Nome, Alaska, diphtheria epidemic describes the plight of the patients, with a blizzard imminent and the much-needed serum seven hundred miles away, as teams of sled dogs and their drivers become the only hope for survival

Author : Jonathan Nathaniel Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781099256714
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Tails of Togo the Sled Dog! written by Jonathan Nathaniel Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have heard of the famed sled dog Balto- how he helped save the children of Nome Alaska from an outbreak of Diphtheria. But did you know that most of the heroic deeds attributed to Balto was actually accomplished by a dog named Togo? This children's book seeks to set the record straight by engaging your child in the epic adventures of this most accomplished sledding in American history.

Author : Jodie Parachini
Publisher : Animalographies
ISBN 13 : 9780807503829
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Togo and Balto written by Jodie Parachini and published by Animalographies. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1925 and the world was in a diptheria pandemic. The town of Nome, Alaska, needed the serum to save its children but there was only one way to get there: dog sled. Balto and Togo, two Siberian huskies, were part of the relay race that pushed through below-freezing temperatures and a blizzard to bring the serum to Nome.

Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099584643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Ann Morgan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant, unlikely book' Spectator How can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down; some governments don't like to let works of art escape their borders. Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point, Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how reading across borders might just help us answer them. 'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there is a simple message- reading is a social activity, and we ought to share books across boundaries' Financial Times

Author : Zinta Konrad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317551729
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ewe Comic Heroes (RLE Folklore) written by Zinta Konrad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for he does not fit into any neat categories or definitions. This study, first published in 1994, aims to give the reader the opportunity to experience in some small measure the dynamic and exciting dramatic oral narrative performances of the Ewe people of West Africa.

Author : George Packer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894490
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village of Waiting written by George Packer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople--peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on "development," find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.