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"Spectrum Guide to Tanzania" takes readers from the lowest point on the continent, the depths of Lake Tanganyika, to the heights of Kilimanjaro, outlining in detail--and more than 200 full-color photos--the great range of landscapes, wildlife and cultures found in the country. ... Read more

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Very informative, beautiful photos
This is the perfect book for an armchair traveller to Tanzania. It does a wonderful job of showing what the country has to offer, from culture to wildlife to history. The photos are stunning, the writing well-crafted.

This is *not*, however, a book I would choose to take with me when visiting the country. While it does provide some information on transportation and accomodations (mostly high-end), it is not geared towards the traveller 'on the ground.' Do buy this book and read it before you visit Tanzania, but take the Lonely Planet or a Rough Guide along for the trip.

Excellemt guide book of Tenzania. Great details!!
I found it most informative of all books on Tanzania.

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In Culture and Customs of Tanzania, author Kefa M. Otiso presents an approachable basic overview of the country's key characteristics, covering topics such as Tanzania's land, peoples, languages, education system, resources, occupations, economy, government, and history. This recent addition to Greenwood's Culture and Customs of Africa series also contains chapters that portray the culture and social customs of Tanzania, such as the country's religion and worldview; literature, film, and media; art, architecture, and housing; cuisine and traditional dress; gender roles, marriage, family structures, and lifestyle; and music, dance, and drama.

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It is hard to imagine the study of human origins without the Leakey family. Three generations of Leakeys have scratched in the baked, unfriendly soil of East Africa to unearth fossil evidence of the earliest humans and their ancient ancestors. In the process they have practically defined the field of paleoanthropology, while eliciting admiration as well as controversies and criticism. In this engrossing biography, prolific writer and educator Mary Bowman-Kruhm tells the story of three generations of Leakeys. Beginning with patriarch Louis Leakey, a native of Kenya, she describes how he turned his boyhood love of exploring the Kenyan countryside into a scientific profession that eventually garnered international recognition. As the author shows, Leakey struggled in the early years, often barely able to make a living. The end of World War II, a trip to Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, and an injection of money from a benefactor led to the discovery of Proconsul africanus, a 18-million-year-old skull that was a precursor to both later evolving apes and humans. Then Leakey and his wife, Mary, discovered fragments of what came to be known as Parantbropus boisei, which lived about 1.7 5 million years ago. These findings brought the Leakeys great attention and important funding from the National Geographic Society. Bowman-Kruhm intersperses her discussion of the Leakeys' important scientific contributions with interesting asides about their personal life: from the trying 1950s when the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya threatened all of their lives; through Louis' interest in young proteges, including Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey; to the rocky relationship between the Leakeys and Donald Johanson, the discoverer of 'Lucy'. By the time of Louis's death in 1972, Mary and their son Richard were making dramatic finds on their own. When Richard discovered a rich cache of fossils in northern Kenya, he soon attained a level of acclaim to rival his father and mother's. Eventually, he turned his attention to fighting for the cause of wildlife conservation, a passion that he continues to the present. Today, the paleontology work of the Leakey family continues, carried on mainly by Meave, Richard's wife, and their daughter, Louise, at Koobi Fora in northern Kenya. ... Read more

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The Leakeys
The Leakeys' achievements have been immense in demolishing the prevailing wisdom in the first half of last century that mankind originated in Europe and Asia.The family's relentless search for the evidence that East Africa was the cradle comes through in their characters: single minded, courageous, and possessing supreme self-belief. This led to breakups with the scientific community and each other. That they had to work in the harsh and often primitive conditions of an Africa, throwing off the reins of British rule, makes their achievements that much more impressive.

Mary Bowman-Kruhm almost but not quite pulls these strands together. Her biography of the three generations can't decide if it's also an academic analysis, a primer for high school, a casual reference book, or an introduction to African politics.

Just as one theme is developed, it either does not go far enough or goes on too long. The book lists the personal timeline of the family dynasty but cries out also for a family tree of the fossils, showing where they belong and how far back they date.

Bowman-Kruhm does give a very good impartial and objective account of the controversy over who discovered "Lucy," and the book is worth reading for that.


Reviewed by Martin Rushmere

For readers with an interest in the anthropological inquiries into the origins of homo sapiens on the continent of Africa
The Leakey family has had a singular and distinctive influence in anthropology unlike any other. From Louis and Mary Leakey's discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge over some 24 years of exploration and excavation (the culmination of which was the 1.8-million-year-old skull of an anthropoid ancestor of the human race), to their son Richard and his wife Meave's discoveries in the Rift Valley, to their granddaughter's explorations in northern Kenya, the collective contributions of the Leaky family have contributed more than anyone else to our understanding of human evolution. Now Mary Bowman-Kruhm has written a superb biography of this remarkable family in "The Leakeys", a 183-page survey of their private lives and professional accomplishments. Informed and informative, this deftly written family biography is especially appropriate for and recommended to school and community library Biography reference collections in general, and the supplemental reading lists for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the anthropological inquiries into the origins of homo sapiens on the continent of Africa.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tumbuka are a Bantu ethnic group living in Northern Malawi, Eastern Zambia and Southern Tanzania. Their chief god is called Chiuta, who is all-powerful, omniscient and self-created, just like the God of the Abrahamic religions. The language of the Tumbuka is called chiTumbuka - the 'chi' in front of Tumbuka meaning 'the language of the' just like 'ki' in kiSwahili or 'se' in seTswana. A Tumbuka will call another vatumbuka, meaning one of the tribe of Tumbukas.The World Almanac (1998) estimates approximately 2,000,000 Tumbuka speakers exist in the aforementioned three countries. Ethnologue estimates a total of 1,332,000 Tumbuka speakers, including 940,000 in Malawi and 392,000 in Zambia, with no Tumbuka presence listed for Tanzania. ... Read more

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Tanzania. History of Tanzania, Politics of Tanzania, Economy of Tanzania, Transport in Tanzania, Microfinance in Tanzania, Regions of Tanzania, Districts of Tanzania, Geography of Tanzania, Demographics of Tanzania, Culture of Tanzania, Music of Tanzania, Outline of Tanzania, Tanzania People's Defence Force, Tanzanian general election, 2005, Tanzania Scouts Association, Music of Africa ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ubaruku is an administrative ward in the Mbarali district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 31,928. Mbarali is one of the 8 districts of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the North and East by the Iringa Region, to the South by the Mbeya Rural District and to the West by the Chunya District. According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Chunya District was 234,908. The District Commissioner of the Mbarali District is Gilbert Dololo. ... Read more

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Kilimanjaro, The GreatWhite Mountain of Africa
My mom and brother both climbed Mt. Killimanjaro in Sept. 2001. And as a birthday gift to my mom I got her this book. I to have enjoyed looking at the pictuers and also I was in Africa as well but I only have seen the mountain through my mom's and brother's photos.
If you ever have a chance go and climb the moutain it will make you a different person.

The ultimate coffee table book for the Kili trekker!
What a gorgeous book!The photos and descriptions do a little justice to the real thing, making it much easier to try to explain to others the mulititude of ecosystems along the trail to the summit (brrrr!).Highly recommended! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Blackwell Publishers Ltd. on June 1, 2008. The length of the article is 789 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Voices from the south: report from a workshop on environmental management and sustainable development in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 2007.(Report)
Author: Boyson Moyo
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2008
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Volume: 174Issue: 2Page: 149(2)

Article Type: Report

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on November 1, 1999. The length of the article is 4144 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Society's News.
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1999
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 165Issue: 3Page: 346

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on November 1, 1994. The length of the article is 6939 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This study examines the processes by which fruit and vegetables are distributed to and within an urban environment. It uses an integrated approach to examine in detail the various channels of supply, particularly the role of the legal wholesale market. It argues that adopting a traditional approach to the study of such a highly complex topic may result in anomalous or biased results. This paper is based on a wider study which examines the processes of fruit and vegetable production, distribution and marketing in the case of Dares Salaam. Its results suggest that the informal sector has expanded to take over the increasing demand that the wholesale market, Kariakoo, has been physically unable to deal with. Kariakoo is hindered by insufficient trading floor space, acute congestion, and operating at twice its designed for capacity since the early 1980s. It is estimated that by 1989 the formal sector accounted for only about 50 per cent of the fruit and vegetable wholesaling for the city, the remainder being dealt with by informal wholesalers or being sold by producers or rural-based traders direct to retailers. In addition, the formal sector has become increasingly specialized in its handling of vegetable produce, at the expense of fruit. The evidence suggests that this is a result of complementarity of the facilities offered by the formal wholesale market on the one hand and the more flexible informal sector on the other. The paper concludes by suggesting that Kariakoo can best be characterized as a large-scale, capital intensive market operating in competition with the smaller scale, flexible informal sector for wholesale produce. It is, therefore, proposed that future planning for urban fruit and vegetable marketing, should incorporate this thinking and make best use of the operating advantages of each of the different sectors.

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Title: Urban fruit and vegetable supply in Dar es Salaam. (Tanzanian city)
Author: Kenneth Lynch
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1994
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v160Issue: n3Page: p307(12)

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The social dynamics of deforestation and of forest protection are the ongoing interactions amongst social actors and processes that determine the use and management of forests. Based on a vast amount of research and detailed case-studies in Brazil, Central America, Nepal and Tanzania as well as several papers dealing with wider themes and regions, this book argues that most current discussions of increased rates of deforestation and perceived accompanying environmental crises are overly simplistic. Institutional reforms and policy measures that have been undertaken in developing countries usually failed to protect either the forests or people's livelihoods. Technical solutions to deforestation are only one element in what are essentially political questions. The central issue is not how to halt deforestation but rather how to manage forest areas and natural resources in order to meet social goals on a more equitable and sustainable basis. Conventional wisdom that attributes deforestation primarily to peasant ignorance and population growth is questioned as are other single factor explanations such as market and policy failures. ... Read more

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A superb, coffee-table edition on this magnificent park highlighting the special features of each region, and detail their relevance in the yearly, circuitous trek from south to north and back again. The introductory chapters focus on both the landscape and animal inhabitants, with a special emphasis on the spectacle of large-herd migration. Predators of the region are also featured, along with images of the raw energy and agitation they introduce to an otherwise pastoral scene. Bird life in the Serengeti is captured too, as are the vast weather systems that sweep across the plains. Through the evocative text and the striking images we are transported to this vibrant and awe-inspiring spectacle. ... Read more

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This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds imported enslaved populations from western and central Sudan, but in general the two markets have been treated in isolation and without reference to the common bond of Islam and the multiple roles that Islam has played in the history of slavery, whether in West Africa itself, the Americas, or the Islamic Mediterranean. Western Africa served as the point of dispersion across desert and sea, but it was also the final destination of many of those who were enslaved but who were not transported across the Atlantic or the Sahara.The relationship between Islam and slavery is explored as a series of frontiers:in the Americas between enslaved Muslims and their Christian masters and the types of resistance and accommodation that arose there;in West Africa between Muslim and non-Muslim societies and the attempts at defining who was a Muslim in terms of issues of enslavement;in North Africa between Muslim masters and the enslaved population from West Africa and the popularity of spirit possession cults.The resistance of Muslims to assimilation and the accommodation of Muslims to bondage also created other frontiers that are explored in this book. ... Read more

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Midwest Book Review
"A college-level readership will find these informed, informative, and strongly recommended essays will provide them with exceptionally important insights into the political and religious issues in the Sudan. . . . Intriguing comparisons and analysis." --Midwest Book Review

Slavery on the frontiers of Islam
This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds imported enslaved populations from western and central Sudan, but in general the two markets have been treated in isolation and without reference to the common bond of Islam and the multiple roles that Islam has played in the history of slavery, whether in West Africa itself, the Americas, or the Islamic Mediterranean. Western Africa served as the point of dispersion across desert and sea, but it was also the final destination of many of those who were enslaved but who were not transported across the Atlantic or the Sahara.
The relationship between Islam and slavery is explored as a series of frontiers:
w in the Americas between enslaved Muslims and their Christian masters and the types of resistance and accommodation that arose there;
w in West Africa between Muslim and non-Muslim societies and the attempts at defining who was a Muslim in terms of issues of enslavement;
w in North Africa between Muslim masters and the enslaved population from West Africa and the popularity of spirit possession cults.
The resistance of Muslims to assimilation and the accommodation of Muslims to bondage also created other frontiers that are explored in this book.

Incorporates similar questions on each under one cover
The high price tag of Slavery On The Frontiers Of Islam will limit its acquisition to all but the most dedicated of multicultural and Islamic Studies collections; but a college-level readership will find these informed, informative, and strongly recommended essays will provide them with exceptionally important insights into the political and religious issues in the Sudan. Slave studies usually consider trans-Atlantic slavery or slavery in Islamic nations as separate phenomenon: compiled and edited by Paul Lovejoy, Slavery On The Frontiers Of Islam deftly incorporates similar questions on each under one cover, and goes on to provide intriguing comparisons and analysis. ... Read more