štítek: Afrika
Turnbull, Colin: The Forest People
It seemed that the girl was very ill with dysentery but was not yet dead. The Pygmies express various degrees of illness by saying...
Seddon, Christopher: Humans
At the present time, we are living in
a warm interglacial period: MIS 1. This was preceded by the glacial MIS 2,
which lasted from 24,000...
McCall Smith, Alexander: The House of Unexpected Sisters
One day, of course, these differences
between men and women would disappear – there were signs of that beginning to
happen already – but she did...
Šebek, Tomáš: Africká zima
Jo, a přestal jsem ke kritickým pacientům běhat. Pacient, který má umřít, umře tak jako tak. Lékař s tím nic neudělá. Na přeživšího pacienta...
Marshall, Tim: Prisoners of Geography
Take, for example, China and India:
two massive countries with huge populations that share a very long border but
are not politically or culturally aligned. It...
McCall Smith, Alexander: The Full Cupboard of Life
‘You are right,’ she said. ‘I am a
very engaged lady. I have been waiting for a long time. But you cannot push men
around. They...
Zambie a Botswana 2017
Letos jsme si řekli, že už se konečně musíme podívat do černé Afriky. Jednak z ní kdysi vyšlo lidstvo, takže by nebylo od věci,...
McCall Smith, Alexander: Morality for Beautiful Girls
She had realised that the best test
of a prospective husband involves no more than the asking of a very simple
question, which every woman –...
McCall Smith, Alexander: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Unfairness seemed to be an
inescapable feature of life, at least if you were Mma Makutsi from Bobonong in
Northern Botswana, daughter of a man whose...
Alexander McCall Smith: Tears of the Giraffe
‘ God will provide,’ said Mma Potokwane calmly. ‘He will send us a new engine one day.’ ‘Maybe,’ said Mr J. L. B....
Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
I said to him that Zululand sounded
fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the
heart...
Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible
Father feels makeup and nail polish
are warning signals of prostitution, the same as pierced ears.
Father surveyed our despair as if
he’d expected it all along,...
Dubaj a Afrika 2017
Minulý týden jsme podnikli cestu k Viktoriiným vodopádům v Zambii. Jeli jsme přes Dubaj a navštívili jsme i Botswanu a Zimbabwe. Zatím se prosím...
Tim Butcher: Blood River
For me the Congo stands as a totem
for the failed continent of Africa. It has more potential than any other
African nation, more diamonds, more...