The Boab Tree

Author : Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani,Viviana Mazza
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062696748

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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani,Viviana Mazza Pdf

Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren’t too far out of reach. But the girl’s dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors’ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she’s been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life—her future—is hers to fight for.

Author : Pat Lowe
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Baobab
ISBN : 0850919126

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The Boab Tree by Pat Lowe Pdf

Describes the biology, distribution and human associations of the baob tree. Discusses Aboriginal peoples use of the boab tree and stories associated with it, as well as European explorers' encounters with these trees. The author has written several books about the traditional life in the Great Sandy Desert. Includes a map showing the distribution of the eight boab species, a bibliography and an index.

Author : Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310739289

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Under the Baobab Tree by Julie Stiegemeyer Pdf

The baobab tree story, which I wrote (the church version) is actually based upon a true story, told by Limakatso Nare, a Lutheran pastor who is currently serving a congregation in Louisiana. When he was growing up in his native Africa, he gathered for Sunday school under the baobab tree. Here he learned the Biblical stories of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the big fish, and the parables of Jesus. His Sunday school experiences inspired my story, Under the Baobab Tree.

Author : Louie Stowell
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781474905527

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The Baobab Tree by Louie Stowell Pdf

When the gods create a talking tree, they soon regret it because it won’t be quiet. So they turn it upside down and bury its head in the dirt. The classic African folktale, specially retold as part of the Usborne Reading Programme for children just starting to read alone. This ebook includes audio and reading-related puzzles. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare

Author : Scott J Gobbert
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781543403015

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The Old Man and the Boab Tree by Scott J Gobbert Pdf

An old man listens to the stories of the lives of northern Australian animals.

Author : Maria Flavel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1925209512

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The Adventures of an Old Boab Tree by Maria Flavel Pdf

Author : Catherine House
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1847801161

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A Stork in a Baobab Tree by Catherine House Pdf

Set in Africa during the Christmas season, this is the story of a village preparing for a celebration - the birth of a child. The story is told in verse inspired by the traditional carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, but in this version by the author Catherine House the gifts are: 1 stork in a baobab tree, 2 thatched huts, 3 woven baskets, 4 market traders, 5 bright khangas, 6 women pounding, 7 children playing, 8 wooden carvings, 9 grazing goats, 10 drummers drumming, 11 dancers dancing and 12 storytellers. This is a Christmas steeped in the atmosphere of African village life, including descriptions of the objects and activities mentioned in the text.

Author : Ken Bugul
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813927374

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The Abandoned Baobab by Ken Bugul Pdf

Despite its unflinching look at our darkest impulses, and at the stark facts of being a colonized African, the book is ultimately inspirational, for it exposes us to a remarkable sensibility and a hard-won understanding of one's place in the world.CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393059898

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The Remarkable Baobab by Thomas Pakenham Pdf

Acclaimed historian Thomas Pakenham-who has dramatized in photographs and words the sheer majesty of trees throughout the world-now trains his lens on the most mysterious of trees, the baobab, with spectacular results. His search for the world's most striking baobabs has led him over the last eight years on a trail from sub-Saharan Africa to Madagascar and Australia, the Caribbean, and the United States. Here, in The Remarkable Baobab, Pakenham records his personal encounters with these mysterious giants, tracing their mythologies, their natural grandeur, and their origins, as well as their chances of survival in an uncertain environment. As Pakenham notes, the baobab may indeed be one of the oldest life forms on the planet, and many of the specimens still standing today have been alive for well over a thousand years. Standing tall on the savannahs of Africa and the sunburned plains of Australia, they are tremendous in size and have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to many, even serving as prisons, tombs, and ossuaries on occasion. Over the last one thousand years they have gained mythical status among many peoples, due in no small part to their appearance-without leaves, the branches of the trees look like roots growing into the sky. The Remarkable Baobab also includes a special section devoted to two famous baobabs in North America-one which is now over twenty feet in girth and is planted on a private Florida estate, the other a breathtaking specimen on the campus of the University of Arizona that was brought to the United States by smugglers. These stories are but two examples provided by Thomas Pakenham in The Remarkable Baobab, a book that is as visually bewitching as the baobab itself. Book jacket.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309164542

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Lost Crops of Africa by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation Pdf

This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.

Author : Cheryl Foggo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1897187912

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Dear Baobab by Cheryl Foggo Pdf

When Maiko has to leave his village in Africa to live with his aunt and uncle in Canada, he misses the giant baobab tree in the middle of his village but makes friends with a small spruce tree in his aunt and uncle's yard.

Author : Wilma Stockenstrom
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935744924

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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom Pdf

Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.

Author : Rupert Watson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781775841692

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The African Baobab by Rupert Watson Pdf

The baobab is surely the botanical symbol of Africa, instantly recognizable from afar and a compelling icon of the African landscape. This age-old ‘upside-down tree’ invariably inspires wonder, awe and mystery, and has intrigued travellers for hundreds of years. In this absorbing and inspired account of The African Baobab, author Rupert Watson explores the life and times of this fascinating tree, from its early Madagascan beginnings to its present status on the continent and its future in a changing Africa. He effortlessly mixes natural science, history and personal experience, drawing on extracts from the journals of early explorers who, on encountering these extraordinary trees, measured and sketched them for a sceptical audience back home; and he presents intriguing, detailed accounts of the baobab’s eccentric growth and reproductive habits, its present-day distribution, and its wide impact on everyday African life. The author takes a close look at the myriad uses of baobabs over the ages: their hollow centres have served as prisons, toilets, wells and bars, and some specimens have even been used as a refuge in battle or as burial sites. Their fibre, seeds and fruit are credited with hundreds of applications, both practical and medicinal. Many locals feel a spiritual connection to these trees – believing them to possess mystical powers – and use them in rituals to promote healing or luck. Other relationships between humans and the baobab are explored too, often illustrated by delightful anecdotes. The rich and enthusiastic text is complemented by evocative, colourful images that show the curious baobab in all its many stages, moods and guises – and sometimes in the most unlikely places. This book cannot fail to inspire.

Author : Gloria Loughman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607053897

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Luminous Landscapes by Gloria Loughman Pdf

Thread, Paint & Inspiration — the Sky’s the Limit! • Create unique and impressive landscape quilts from photos you take — includes tips on taking good pictures, how to combine elements of several photos into one design, and how to use color effectively • Yes, you can create stunning pictorial effects using step-by-step techniques! • Learn how to paint your own fabrics and create striking silhouettes Let your inner artist out! Capture the glory of a sunrise or sunset, the stark outline of a tree against the sky, the placid surface of the ocean. Gloria has assembled a repertoire of techniques to give all your pictorial quilts breathtaking impact, from working with photographs to painting fabric, creating silhouettes, constructing backgrounds, and embellishing with stitching. Try one of three projects, or use the techniques in your own designs.

Author : Franceska Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1922757667

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Under the Boab Tree by Franceska Jordan Pdf

Boaboa - pronounced 'Bow-a-Bow-a' - is the name given to a real tree-the Baobab-that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska's tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet-like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth's daughter-and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter's spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.