Name: An Affair with Africa: Expeditions And Adventures Across A Continent
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In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to find their way out of numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emergency airlift by the United States Air Force brought them to safety in Kenya where they continued their field work.Thus began three decades of adventures in science. In An Affair with Africa, Alzada Kistner describes her family’s African experience — the five expeditions they took beginning with the trip to the Belgian Congo in 1960 and ending in 1972-73 with a nine-month excursion across southern Africa. From hunching over columns of ants for hours on end while seven months pregnant to eating dinner next to Idi Amin, Kistner provides a lively and humor-filled account of the human side of scientific discovery. Her wonderfully detailed stories clearly show why, despite hardship and danger — and contrary to all of society’s expectations — she could not forsake accompanying her husband on his expeditions, and, to this day, continues to find the world “endlessly beckoning, a lively bubbling cauldron of questions and intrigue.”In the spirit of Beryl Markham’s West with the Night and Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa, An Affair with Africa shares with readers the thoughts and experiences of a remarkable woman, one whose unquenchable thirst for adventure led her into a series of almost unimaginable situations. Readers — from armchair travelers fascinated by stories of Africa to scientists familiar with the Kistners’s work but unaware of the lengths to which they went to gather their data — will find An Affair with Africa a rare treasure.

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Author	Kistner, Alzada Carlisle	Manufacturer	Island Press
Brand	Brand: Island Press	Item Weight	0.95 Pounds
ItemDimensions	6 x 1 x 8.5Inches	NumberOfItems	1
binding	Hardcover	Amazon Category	Books » Science & Math » Nature & Ecology » Nature Conservation
Amazon Category	Books » Science & Math » Nature & Ecology » Nature Writing & Essays	Amazon Category	Books » Science & Math » Environment & Nature » Environmentalism
Amazon Category	Books » Travel » Specialty Travel » Ecotourism Travel Guides	Amazon Category	Books » Travel » Travelogues & Travel Essays
ISBN	1559635312	EAN	9781559635318

Weight	0.95 lbs

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