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"Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya by relatively progressive parents. Her father established a wildlife sanctuary, which was managed by the Maasai themselves rather than outside interests, and watching how he created a consensus by meeting people where they ar...
While in Kenya, a Swiss-German tourist falls in love with a Masai warrior from the Samburu tribe.
The modern warrior: "More and more people across Africa are streaming toward the continent's cities, hoping to invent new lives in the bustling urban centres. Perhaps no one understands the fragile intersection between traditional and modern life better than Moses ole Samante. An...
"In early 20th century British East Africa, there are rules for the British and different ones for the Africans. Vera McIntosh, the daughter of Scottish missionaries, doesn't feel she belongs to either group; having grown up in Africa, she is not interested in being the well-bred...
A Christmas fling, or has Janie found the real thing Thirty-something hairdresser Janie Johnson's single status is a constant source of gossip for her friends and clients. So after too many nights in with her cat, a blind date disaster and news that her ex is getting married, Jan...
In her gripping directorial debut, Christy Turlington Burns shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world, including a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a slum of Bangladesh, a post-abortion care ward in Guatemala, and a prenatal clinic in the Un...
Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, births a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely expat wife, follows her husband to the tropics and learns just how fragile life is. Simi, a barren...
"Nice's journey from "heartbroken child and community outcast, to leader of the Maasai" is an inspiration and a reminder that one person can change the world--and every girl is worth saving"-- Provided by publisher.
From reindeer-skin coats and boots worn in Siberia, to colourful hats and jackets woven from alpaca wool in the Andes Mountains of Peru, young readers will quickly discover that not everyone buys their clothes online or from a store! In this beautiful photographic book, young rea...