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Author : Thayer Scudder,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Boteti River (Botswana)
ISBN : 2831701147
Author : Catie Gressier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782387730
An ethnographic portrayal of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their position as a European-descended minority in a postcolonial African state, Gressier argues that white Batswana have developed cultural values and practices that have allowed them to attain high levels of belonging. Adventure is common for this frontier community, and the book follows their safari lifestyles as they construct and perform localized identities in their interactions with dangerous wildlife, the broader African community, and the global elite via their work in the nature-tourism industry.
Author : Charles John Andersson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : UOM:39015043582207
Author : Thomas J. Larson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595204335
This exciting Huckleberry Finn kind of story is about two African herdboys in 1950 going down the Okavango River in a dugout canoe. The beautiful river flows down out of the Benguela Highlands of Angola, crosses the Caprivi Strip of Namibia, then into Botswana where it spreads out through the vast Okavango Delta. The true-to-life adventures of Dibebe and Andara are about hunting, fishing, surviving, visiting friends and kinsmen along the great meandering river. The Hambukushu tribal ceremonies are true to the culture of these remote riverine people. Brave canoemen have traveled through the vast delta in dugout canoes. Bushman paintings can be seen in the mysterious Tsodilo Hills. It is possible that prehistoric peoples left their bones in a cave in these hills. The anthropologist author made eight expeditions from 1950 to 1994 to study the culture of these matrilineal, Bantu-speaking hunters, fishermen, farmers. All events in the story were possible in those long ago days of 1950. This story of karikaripamatango - the olden days - is most informative and educational reading for young people and adults alike!
Author : Anthony Fleischer
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0864863853
At one level Okavango Gods is a fast-moving adventure at the mouth of rivers, a story of a young Hambukushu man, Pula Barotse, and his beloved friend Julia, daughter of the Portuguese doctor at Shakawe clinic. Together the young couple struggle to contend with the traditional rituals of sacrifice for rain, and with the biggest flood to ever hit the Okavango delta. At another level, it is an allegory of Africa - mystical and beautiful, both wayward and ordered - evoking the ancient story of Gilgamesh and the flood. Nature, magic, fetish and ritual rule, just as they did 5000 years ago. But the Hambukushu people, and the Okavango river that sustains them, are threatened today.
Author : Catie Gressier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387749
An ethnographic portrayal of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their position as a European-descended minority in a postcolonial African state, Gressier argues that white Batswana have developed cultural values and practices that have allowed them to attain high levels of belonging. Adventure is common for this frontier community, and the book follows their safari lifestyles as they construct and perform localized identities in their interactions with dangerous wildlife, the broader African community, and the global elite via their work in the nature-tourism industry.
Author : Mike Bruton,Glenn Merron,Paul Skelton
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781775845065
A comprehensive guide to the fishes of the Okavango Delta and Chobe River, this book offers background information on the diverse aquatic habitats of the region and on fish feeding, breeding and survival strategies. It also provides useful hints for anglers. The species entries describe each fish in detail, with key ID points and information on habits and occurrence. Each account is accompanied by a colour illustration or photograph. The book concludes with information on how best to utilise and conserve the fishes of the delta system and Chobe River. This is the only such guide to fishes of the region and will be invaluable to local and visiting fishermen, naturalists and conservationists, as well as the many tourists who visit this spectacular African paradise.
Author : Duncan Butchart
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781775843399
A remarkable variety of animals and plants can be found in the wilderness region surrounding the Okavango Delta. This photographic guide covers more than 470 of the area’s most conspicuous and interesting mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, fi shes, invertebrates, trees and aquatic plants. An informative introduction describes the area’s geology, climate, habitats and the key roles played by some animals, such as termites and elephants. The species accounts feature concise text describing the species’ appearance, size, habits, habitat and status, with full-colour photographs to facilitate identification.
Author : Charles John Andersson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375065522
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Author : Thomas J. Larson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595239450
Tales from the Okavango tells several typical Hambukushu folktales, partly in narration and partly in song. Some of the tales are heard only in song, others only in narration. Most of the stories take place along the Okavango River in Africa. Animal characters interact with legendary characters, Nyambi the god, and the Hambukushu. Learn the story of Chief Chakova, who goes on an epic journey in search of his father; and the story of Nyambi's climb into heaven by the spider web. Meet Kadimba the hare, Ngando the crocodile, and Mbwawathe the silver fox who are the clever ones who outwit Nthoo the leopard....and many more fascinating characters. These are authentic folk tales told to Professor Larson by the three greatest Hambukushu story tellers: Setomba the ancient blind man of Shakawe, Mohore the magician, and Samarango the great magician of Seronga.
Author : Thomas John Larson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780595184569
In light of the terrible AIDS tragedy unfolding in southern Africa, one gets an enormous sense of sadness and loss when reading The Hambukushu Rainmakers of the Okavango. Tom J. Larson was one of the last anthropologists to experience and record their ancient culture before it was so radically impacted by modernization and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic. Over the course of many years, he earned the trust of the Hambukushu and was allowed the kind of access needed to painstakingly record the minutiae of every aspect of their daily lives. What emerged is a portrait of a complex, distinctive African culture defined by the abundance of their homeland, the vast and wild Okavango River delta, and by the powerful Rainmaker chiefs who controlled the very fabric of their existence. To read Larson's extraordinary book is to understand how the belief systems that worked so well for them for centuries wreak such havoc on them today.
Author : Thomas John Larson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780595264100
World explorer Tom Larson is off on another grand adventure this time with his wife and three small children! First they go to Woodstock, England while he studies for his MLitt degree at Oxford, then they are off to Johannesburg, South Africa where Larson has a teaching position at the Witwatersrand University. During vacations he goes to Botswana to continue studies of the Hambukushu people he started in 1950. There is never a dull moment for the Larson family or the reader as the story moves from their lovely home "The Cardinal1s Hat" near stately Blenheim Palace Park in England to native African outposts in the vast, wild Okavango River delta country of Southern Africa. This book is an amazing read! Alec Campbell of Botswana states: "Tom is an old time indefatigable explorer who still works on his enormous accumulation of data, lectures to students, and who still works at research in the Society Islands of French Polynesia."
Author : Karen Ellery,William Ellery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Botany
ISBN : CORNELL:31924074271101
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Okavango River Delta (Botswana)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132824207
Author : Chris McIntyre
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781841624891
A guide that takes the traveler to a wilderness in northern Botswana populated almost exclusively by wildlife.
