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An overview of Malawi's geography and history, along with an exploration of the political, economic, and cultural landscape of this country located in southeastern Africa. ... Read more

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An overview of the history, geography, economy, government, people, and culture of this small country located in the eastern part of southern Africa. ... Read more

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Describes the topography, history, society, economy, and government of the small scenic country in southeastern Africa. ... Read more

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Chapters: Dedza, Livingstonia, Malawi, Ekwendeni, Mzuzu, Phalombe, Nsanje, Limbe, Malawi, Rumphi, Nyika National Park, Zomba District, Mzimba, Mulanje, Dowa, Salima, Chitipa, Thyolo, Ntchisi, Ntcheu, Luchenza, Mponela, Namitete, Nathenje, Dedza District, Likoma, Malawi, Ntcheu District, Mangochi District, Nsanje District, Lake Malawi National Park, Chipoka, Chaseta, Kasungu National Park, Mkangawi, Mzembela, Vwaza Marsh Game Reserve, Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve, Lilongwe District, Viphya Forest, Kapeta, Mtenje, Makuta, Malawi, Mbaluko, Aaron, Malawi, Kasungu District, Mafinga Hills, Muloza, Lake Chilwa, Chongoni Rock Art Area, Embangweni, Nyika Plateau, Lake Malombe, Northern Region, Malawi, Dinosaur Beds, Shire River, Central Region, Malawi, Liwonde National Park, Southern Region, Malawi, Mwanza District, Mzimba District, Karonga District, Dwangwa River, Blantyre District, Dowa District, Masanjala, Rumphi District, Nkhotakota Game Reserve, Likoma District, Salima District, Chikwawa District, Nkhata Bay District, Nkhotakota District, Mulanje District, Chitipa District, Balaka District, Machinga District, Chambe Peak, Chiradzulu District, Mchinji District, Ntchisi District, Lake Kazuni, Majete Game Reserve, Phalombe District, Sankulani, Lengwe National Park, Lake Kaulime, Chisi Island, Neno District, Sandama, Chiromo, Bangula, Chiwembe, Viphya Mountains, Shire Highlands, Zomba Massif, Club Makokola Airport, List of Islands of Malawi, Nkaya, South Rukuru River, Kirk Range, Mount Soche. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 220. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mzuzu is the capital of Malawi's Northern Region and is the third largest city, by population, in Malawi. It is in the center of an agricultural region, and the area surrounding the city specializes in tea, rubber, and coffee cu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=642610 ... Read more

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Chapters: Central Zambezian Miombo Woodlands, Viphya Forest, Mafinga Hills, Northern Region, Malawi, Central Region, Malawi, List of Ecoregions in Malawi, Southern Region, Malawi, Chiweta, Nyasa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The densely forested Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands that cut across southern central Africa are one of the largest ecozones on the continent and home to a great variety of wildlife including many large mammals. The region covers a large area stretching northeast from Angola including the southeast section of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of Zambia, a large section of western Tanzania, southern Burundi and northern and western Malawi. In the Congo the ecoregion is almost contiguous with the province of Katanga. In Zambia it covers the northern half of the country above Lusaka, including the eastern and western "ears" and the Copperbelt. In Tanzania it covers the western inland provinces between Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi. The area is mostly flat plateau and the soils are poor. There is a tropical climate with a long dry season, up to seven months, which leaves the forest vulnerable to fires, and a rainy season from November to March. The woodland is interspersed with riverside dambos, (grassy wetlands), which may constitute up to thirty percent of the region. The woodlands contain much typical miombo flora of high trees with shrub and grassland underneath, but has much other plant life too and typically has more evergreen trees than in most miombo woodlands. The classic miombo trees Brachystegia, Julbernardia, and Isoberlinia dominate the woodlands. Under the trees lie important areas of plants such as the herbaceous Crotalaria and Indigofera. The fauna is diverse. The g...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22423953 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Nice Combination of History Lesson and Gripping Personal Account
As others have mentioned, this book in its English "Africa World Press" version exhibits an unusual and almost literal translation from the Spanish. Still, that does not detract from the job Dr Puertas does in describing his time in Africa and why it stole his heart. Moreover, his reports on what it felt like to see and experience the transformative events of southern Africa in the early 1990s are invaluable. This, after all, was a time when Malawi, South Africa and Mozambique all held their first ever democratic elections -- almost simultaneously!

For novices to the region's history and geography, he does a great job in introducing us to southeastern Africa. For health workers who have visited and worked in those areas, he reflects the appreciative feelings we all have had for the warmth and openness of those regions' inhabitants. For any prospective audiencemember, he appeals to our common humanity.

Beutifully written, detailed
Dr. Donoso has written a wonderful account of his medical experiences in refuge camps in Malawi. His writing style is engaging for both the medical professional and the layman. He has enough detail (and footnotes if youreally want them) so that you can look critically at his efforts. Inaddition, at times, his writing is fluid and even poetic. I gave the bookonly 4 stars because at times the translation was a little rough. I'll betthat this book is really beautiful in the original version. Anyway, if youare interested in the details of delivery of healthcare under tryingcircumstances, get this book and read it.

Beutifully written, detailed
Dr. Donoso has written a wonderful account of his medical experiences in refuge camps in Malawi. His writing style is engaging for both the medical professional and the layman. He has enough detail (and footnotes if youreally want them) so that you can look critically at his efforts. Inaddition, at times, his writing is fluid and even poetic. I gave the bookonly 4 stars because at times the translation was a little rough. I'll betthat this book is really beautiful in the original version. Anyway, if youare interested in the details of delivery of healthcare under tryingcircumstances, get this book and read it.

An Eloquent Book
An Eloquent Book by a Doctor in the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Winning Organization, Les Medicines Sans Frontieres

Across the Footsteps of Africa by Dr. Benjamin Puertas-Donoso

Les Medicines SansFrontieres have won the prestigious and much deserved Nobel Peace Prize for1999. I would like to congratulate them and praise their dedicated doctors. I was especially touched by this eloquent and beautiful memoir of anEcuadorian doctor who worked with the American Refugee Committee in Malawiand with Les Medicines Sans Frontieres in Mozambique near the end of theirlong, brutal civil war in 1993 and 1994.

Dr. Puertas is a giftedwriter.The refugee camps where Dr. Puerts worked were not pretty places. But Dr. Puertas took the inconveniences, risks and deprevations of the workin stride.His warm personality bursting with optimism, energy andhumility, not only charmed his refugees and coworkers, but captivates hisreaders as well.However, of course, his success in taking on thegargantuan task of saving lives in wretched conditions was not due to charmalone. In fact he has a genius for organization and administration.

Dr. Puertas does not focus the book on his own accomplishments or dwell onthe dirt on the floor in the hospitals.His book is very intelligent andshares with the reader a little of the history of the countries he workedin, their governments and politics and he gives the reader a respectful andbalanced idea of what the people, the food and the native cultures arereally like.He was very impressed with the good natured people and theirincredible strength to endure each day.He traveled quite a bit in theregion, met a lot of interesting people, and is a good travel guide for thereader sitting comfortably in his armchair.

Years ago I too livedand worked in Africa. I served as a Peace Corps teacher in Ethiopia. I wasteaching English to children who were starving, with many unnamable andunreatable diseases and living without adequate shelter. I can vouch thatevery word in Dr. Puertas' bookresonated true to my experiences inAfrica. Africans take their hard life pretty much in stride, but it isindeed very hard.It is organizations like Medicines Sans Frontieres thatbring the doctors with skills and abilities to make things happen toimprove their lives.Dr. Puertas is to be commended for giving his timeand gifts to humanitarian efforts and also for writing such an inspiringand exceptional account of it.It is Dr. Puertas' great gift as a writerto make this story, necessarily suffused with so much human pain andsuffering, a great triumph to the human spirit and a romantic adventure. Dr. Puertas is so likeable, his narrative creates suspense because thereader really cares about what happens to him. This book would make a greatmovie!

The reality of the african health system
This book's first edition in spanish showed me the crude reality of the african health system. Thisdelightful narrative experience of Dr. Puertas' incredible adventure in Africa is very well written. It's contents may prove useful to anybody in the medicine, public health, and medicalanthropology fields, especially if related to third worldcountries.

great book

JLBE ... Read more

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Malawi. History of Malawi, Politics of Malawi, Districts of Malawi, Elections in Malawi, Foreign relations of Malawi, Geography of Malawi, Economy of Malawi, Transport in Malawi, Demographics of Malawi, Outline of Malawi, Malawian food crisis ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Malawi," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Malawi in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Malawi when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Malawi, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Features of the book include: *Sixteen page colour section of map extracts *Examples of survey photography and exercises in photographic interpretation *Practical exercises in map reading skills *Answers to all study questions and a glossary of technical terms included as aids to revision and self-study ... Read more