One beat of a butterfly's heart : a Tanganyika police notebook / R. N. Callander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callander, R. N. (Ron N.), 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tanzania--History.

Tanzania.

Tanzania--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pinetown, South Africa : 30° South Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police office, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, firsthand account of a rare period of recent history. It tells how an Australian veteran, fresh from the Korean War, became a colonial police officer in Tanganyika Territory (later Tanzania after federation with the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 1964). The reader is taken on a journey which tourists in

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication Page ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Glossary""; ""Introduction""; ""Prologue""; ""Part 1: It was a Secret but it Escaped""; ""Chapter 1: First Impressions""; ""Chapter 2: Great White Chief""; ""Chapter 3: Acclimatisation Blues""; ""Chapter 4: East is East""; ""Chapter 5: Imposter""; ""Chapter 6: Blood, Sweat and Tears""; ""Chapter 7: Background Briefing""; ""Chapter 8: Offer of Employment""; ""Chapter 9: Too Beautiful for Words""; ""Chapter 10: Tribalism""; ""Chapter 11: A Visitor Arrives""; ""Chapter 12: Sudden Light""

""Chapter 13: Charivari""""Chapter 14: Intimate Strangers""; ""Chapter 15: Politics, Religion and Sex �""; ""Chapter 16: The Watcher""; ""Chapter 17: Movin� On""; ""Part 2: They Opened a Door for me to Enter""; ""Chapter 18: Disregarding Trivialities""; ""Chapter 19: En Route""; ""Chapter 20: Still En Route""; ""Chapter 21: The Lake""; ""Chapter 22: The Drill""; ""Chapter 23: End of the Earth""; ""Chapter 24: Remoteness""; ""Chapter 25: Under New Management""; ""Chapter 26: Exorcism and Duty""; ""Chapter 27: In the Bush""; ""Chapter 28: The Animal Business""; ""Chapter 29: Riot""

""Chapter 30: Discipline""""Chapter 31: Falling Apart""; ""Chapter 32: On the Mountain""; ""Epilogue""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 27, 2015).

ISBN:

9781928211204

1928211208

OCLC:

904209403