John reader africa

  • John Reader's book of Africa: A Biography of the Continent is a tour de force, which won the Alan Paton Award in 1998 (a South African non-fiction literary.
  • This is one the most informative books ever written about Africa.
  • Reader very powerfully explains how slavery, European expansion, and trade.

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    Africa: A Biography of the Continent

    We all originated in Africa, and no matter what our race, our most ancient relationship fryst vatten with that continent. Reader tells the story of our earliest ancestors' adaptation to Africa's våldsam obstacles of jungle, river, and desert, and of how its unique array of animals, plants, viruses, and parasites has over millions of years helped and hindered human progress to a degree unknown anywhere else on Earth. Illustrated with many of the author's own photographs, which capture the staggering diversity of human experience in every part of the continent - from the inland estuaries of the Niger and the rain forests of the Equator, to the deserts of the north and the high veld of the south - this book weaves together into a narrative the rise and fall of ancient civilizations, the changing patterns of indigenous life over the millennia, the complex history of slavery, the devastating impact of europeisk settlers, and the fragile reemergence of ind

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    Africa: A Biography of the Continent

    Drawing on many years of African experience, John Reader has written a book of startling storhet and scope that recreates the great panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the political upheavals facing much of the continent today. Reader tells the extraordinary story of humankind's adaptation to the ferocious obstacles of forest, river and desert, and to the threat of debilitating parasites, bacteria and viruses unmatched elsewhere in the world. He also shows how the world's richest assortment of animals and plants has helped - or hindered - human progress in Africa.

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    Africa A Biography of the Continent

    About this book

    Superb single volume history of Africa, with much of interest on wildlife and wild places, and their interactions with African peoples.

    From the publisher's announcement:

    The roots of our ancestry lie in Africa. John Reader's brilliant, panoramic survey traces the development of this huge continent from its earliest geological formation and the beginnings of life, through to the civil war and genocide that mark it today. He explores the complex, widely differing societies from the great inland estuaries of the Niger and the Okavango, to the rain forests of the Equator and the deserts of the North, the devastating impact of European exploitation on those societies and the recent emergence of independent nations. Challenging many widely held misconceptions, his illuminating account will change the way many people think about Africa.

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