This item has closed 1 buyer bought 1 item
View other items offered by Waveren27564

Similar products

CHALLENGE **Al J. Venter**
Secondhand
R200.00
African Holocaust - The Story Of The Uganda Martyrs - J.F. Faupel
Secondhand
R150.00
Challenge - Southern Africa within the African Revolutionary Context - Edited by Al J. Venter
Secondhand
R150.00
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regim - Michela Wrong
New
R350.00
African Stories - Venter African Stories - Venter African Stories - Venter
African Stories - Venter African Stories - Venter African Stories - Venter
Sold

African Stories - Venter

New 1 was available
R155.00
Shipping
R35.00 Standard shipping using one of our trusted couriers applies to most areas in South Africa. Some areas may attract a R30.00 surcharge. This will be calculated at checkout if applicable.
Check my rate
The seller has indicated that they will usually have this item ready to ship within 12 business days. Shipping time depends on your delivery address. The most accurate delivery time will be calculated at checkout, but in general, the following shipping times apply:
 
Standard Delivery
Main centres:  1-3 business days
Regional areas: 3-4 business days
Remote areas: 3-5 business days
Buyer protection
Get it now, pay later

Product details

Condition
New
Location
South Africa
Bob Shop ID
607243863

2013 paperback with 463 pages new and unread.

Al Venter regards himself an African, a white African, but as much a part of the fascinating and often troubled continent on which he was born as his Zulu and Swahili speaking contemporaries. There is no country in Africa that he has not visited. During his halfcentury career as a foreign correspondent, working for media outlets on four continents, he has given his version of unfolding events from many of them, for, inter alia, Britain's Jane Information Group, the Daily Express and Daily Mail of London, United Press International, Geneva's Interavia, the BBC, SABC, NBC (radio), as well as scores of magazines. His love for Africa stems in part from his childhood. At the age of 14 while on vacation in what was then still Northern Rhodesia he hitchedhiked back to boarding school in Johannesburg in a race with his schoolmates who travelled by train. And he won. Seven years later, after completing threeyears in the navy, he explored East Africa and ended up in Mombasa in Kenya and cadged a lift on a freighter to Canada. Then, after qualifying professionally in London, he travelled overland through West Africa all the way to London. Along the way he met many notables, including Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and the man who hosted Graham Greene at his derelict hotel in Liberia, then all but an American colony, where the greenback was the official currency, as well as the great Dr Albert Schweitzer. The author spent a week at his jungle clinic at Lambarane in Gabon. Venter includes many of these adventures in this new book. He also delves into some of his military adventures and has invited several of his old colleagues to add some of their thoughts to this bundle of travel, adventure and excitement to create a remarkable insight to a continent that, though briefly tamed by Europe, was never really subjugated. In that anomaly too, there lies many a stirring yarn.

Recently viewed

See more
45% OFF
4pcs Set Ladies Watch Necklace Earings Rings Jewelry Set And Rhinestone Decor Quartz Watch Watch
New
R220.00 R400.00
Orange Plaid Print Loose Vintage Shirt
New
R679.00
Food Grade Silica Gel Bath Towel
New
R69.00
Pokemon Trading Cards - Beast Energy Prism Star - 117/131 - Holo Rare - Forbidden Light - NM
Secondhand
R35.00