INTERESTING READING AND VIEWING IDEAS
FOR UPCOMING TRIPS
Here are some recommendations given by various and sundry Focus Folks. Please email Ellie with additions and we will post them here so everyone can enjoy!
Tanzania and Zanzibar
Books:
Go to Amazon.com and read synopses and reviews of the following suggestions. Then order the ones that appeal. These are the books that sound most intriguing to me.
Lonely Planet Tanzania
Tanzania and Zanzibar 2nd Edition. Country and Regional Guidebook.
Northern Tanzania: The Bradt Safari guide with Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar (Brandt Travel Guide)Phillip Briggs. 2006.
The Rough Guide to Zanzibar 2 2006.
Rehema’s Journey: A Visit in Tanzania. (Blue Ribbon book) A nine year old girl, the heroine of this photo-essay, leaves her Tanzanian mountain home with her father to visit Arusha and Norongoro Crater. The book tells of her fascination with Arusha’s city streets and the world famous game preserve.
In Our Village: Kambi Ya Simba Through the Eyes of its Youth. By the students at Awet Secondary School in Tanzania.
We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey Through Tanzania
This children’s book starts with a story about the Masai culture and introduces the reader to how to say their numbers. What fascinates are the facts in the back of the book about Tanzania and the Masai culture.
Welcome to Zanzibar Road
Children’s book. In this picture-book-size chapter book set in Africa animals make up the heterogeneous community thriving on a bustling thoroughfare. Daly’s sweetly drawn animals are kind, full of music, and perfectly satisfied with their unhurried lives.
Tanzania: The Land and its People.
John Ndembwike. 2006.
Tanzania on Tuesday: Writing by American Women Abroad. (A new Rivers Abroad book). A splendid collection of travel writing by 47 American women in other countries. “A mine packed full of jewels…”
Two Weeks in a Land Rover: On Safari in Tanzania.
Sherry Norman Sybesma.
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.
An engrossing memoir offering a vivid portrait of 19th century Arab and African life.
Death in Zanzibar.
A mystery novel by M.M. Kaye.
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