Africa on Six Wheels
A Semester on Safari
Levitov, Betty
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I think I get it, Betty Levitovs youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. Youve had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now youll do just about anything. The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take thirtee
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I think I get it, Betty Levitovs youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. Youve had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now youll do just about anything. The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take thirteen kids from a small midwestern liberal arts college on a three-month trek across Africa. The answer, a learning experience like no other, unfolds in Levitovs thoroughly engaging account of her life-changing stint as a mwalimu (teacher in Swahili) with an Australian bus driver and thirteen college kids from Nebraska in tow. The groups wanderings take themand usthrough seven countries. Through dhow trips and donkey rides on the Swahili island of Lamu, scuba diving and spice tours in Zanzibar, camping in the Namib Desert, and swimming on the edge of a cataract at Victoria Falls, we encounter remarkable people, new customs, and intriguing arts (along with malaria, flat tires, a bike accident, and a hostage crisis). As the students apprentice themselves to African cooks, fishermen, carvers, and batik artists, we discover with them a subtle and complex connection among people normally worlds apart.Â
AUTHOR BIO
Betty Levitov is a professor of English at Doane College, where she specializes in African literature, African studies, and Holocaust literature.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A professional memoir written by a brilliant teacher and a compassionate traveler."-Hilda Raz, editor of Prairie Schooner and the coauthor of What Becomes You
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0803280548
ISBN(13-digit): 9780803280540
Dewey Decimal: 916.704/33
Library of Congress: 2006019098
Book Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 184
Paper Weight (lb): 0.50 lb
