Angolan rendezvous : man & nature in the shadow of war / by Tamar Golan, Tamar Ron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golan, Tamar, author.

Ron, Tamar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angola.

Angola--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pinetown, South Africa : 30° South Publishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ostensibly, this book is in two voices: Tamar Golan, Israel's first Ambassador to Angola, deals with the political/diplomatic aspects, while the stories on gorillas, the Black giant sable and Nature are by zoologist/ecologist, Tamar Ron. But in reality, the book has one voice, one of love for Angola, its long-suffering people, vast landscapes and wild animals, and their ongoing struggle for survival. Africa is associated with war, disease, oil, diamonds, hunger, corruption, destruction, death-a lost and forlorn world. In Angola all these are manifest, yet the authors fell in love with the coun

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About the authors; Foreword (TR & TG); Chapter 1: Thus it happened ... or did it?; Palanca negra (TR); The Boneco (TR); The plant (TG); The chieftain's throne (TG); M'Banza Kongo (TG); Chapter 2: In the shadow of war; Mines (TG); Kuando-Kubango (TR); Displaced (TG); Death of an envoy (TG); Chapter 3: The enchanted forest; Where the forest ends (TR); A journey in Congo (TR); A dream (TR); Bitter-sweet (TR); Massamba (TR); Chapter 4: Children of the Marginal; A child on the Marginal (TR); Antonio's smile (TG)

That kid taught us a thing or two (TG)On the street (TG); Agostinho (TR); Chapter 5: Great women; Benvinda (TG); Fatima and Bela (TG & TR); Three lady ambassadors (TG); Chapter 6: Four sons; João Bernardo (TG); Abel (TG); João (TG); Abias (TR); Chapter 7: On the ocean and in the river; Sea turtles (TR); The Manatee (TR); In the ocean (TR); Chapter 8: Some facts on Angola; Milestones (TG); Oil and diamonds (TG); About nature (TR)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781928211044

1928211046