Product Description
This practical guide highlights what Harare has to offer the visitor. It describes the major tourist venues and their principal attractions, and offers suggestions on where to stay, what to see and do, where to eat and where to shop. Also recommended are popular entertainment venues, pick of the craft centres, national parks and nature reserves, special interest tours, and selected excursions - for example to the tobacco auction and Mbare market, Ewanrigg Botanical Gardens, Lake Chivero Recreational Park, Chapungu Village and the open-air Sculpture Park. Fact panels provide information on where to take the best photographs. With snippets of information, these guides aim to provide practical advice for visitors on how to make the most of their stay. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is a journal article from Applied Geography, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
A hybrid approach comprising literature review, field investigation and interpretation of multi-date panchromatic aerial photographs at the 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales over four time slices between 1963 and 1997 was used to investigate the environmental impacts of increasing population density in Zimbabwe's Serima communal lands of Gutu district in Masvingo province. Results indicate deteriorating environmental trends in the form of deforestation, increased soil erosion, decline in grazing resources and extension of arable land into marginal areas. With high population density initiating unsustainable land use practices, relieving population pressure through land redistribution promises to offer long-term alternatives. ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:kopjies of curious formation, generally well wooded or covered with flowering bushes, and crowned at the top with great rocks, shaped like ruined castles, were scattered over the undulating veldt, across which wound many streams of clear water, flowing over sandy beds ; ranges of wooded hills hemmed in amphitheatres of rich pasture full of a variety of beautiful flowers, the haunts of birds and gorgeous butterflies.When one has travelled day after day across the flowery veldt, finding at certain seasons of the year a profusion of delicious wild fruits of manv varieties, with which one could sustain life if one were lost; when one beholds the magnificent crops which reward the lazy Kaffir for a mere scratching of the soil, but a soil inexhaustibly rich, replenished as it is each rainy season by the matter washed down from the disintegrating granite of the kopjies, one realises that the title of the Promised Land was not altogether wrongly bestowed on this fair region. I will now attempt to show what the conditions of farming will be (a) in Matabele- land and (b) in Mashonaland.(a) In Matabeleland.That a great portion of the Matabele High Veldt is admirably adapted for farming there can be no doubt. The best districts are, of course, those in which Lobengula used to graze his vast herds of cattle, and where the grass, eaten down for years, has become sweet and wholesome for cattle. Boer and Colonial farmers who have come into this country speak enthusiastically of its possibilities.A large number of farms have already been pegged out. Of these some 700 are ' volunteer farms,' which were granted free to the men who took part in the late expedition. Each volunteer farm is of 3,000 morgen (6,000 acres), carrying with it a nominal annual quit rent of ten shillings. These... ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

book for children
Buyers should know that this is designed for children and is only 32 pages long.Shipping cost was more than the price of the book. ... Read more

Product Description
"Action Magazine" is a non-governmental donor-funded project based in Harare, Zimbabwe. The project produces a magazine for schools targeted at the top primary level (but distributed more widely in primary grades and secondary forms) using a "popular publishing" format to present health and environmental science material in a manner which is attractive and accessible to children. As well as copies being distributed to every school in Zimbabwe, since 1988, the distribution has been broadened initially to Botswana and Zambia and more recently to Lesotho and Swaziland, together with a pilot project in Namibia. This book reports on an evaluation of the project, which examined the use of "Action Magazine" in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Issues included children's visual literacy and appreciation of the health education messages, as well as the wider impact of health and environmental science information on schools, children and the wider community. The potential of the medium for supporting the most remote and disadvantaged rural communities is reported and discussed. ... Read more

Product Description
This study traces the history of the capital city of Zimbabwe from its colonial origins, through periods of settler rule and its independence, to the present day. The account illustrates how the environment of the city reflects and embodies the urban policies and economy of a colonial state. It reflects on the city's inequalities of income and the emerging pressures on housing, facilities and services. Not only documenting recent pressures, the study also explores ways in which local authorities are attempting to come to terms with the problems. ... Read more

Product Description
The text includes the following special features: * substantial revision to the text and illustrations * information arranged both topically and regionally * many new photographs * updated statistics and new tables * a thorough explanation of recent developments in Zimbabwe, and the geographical relevance of these changes. ... Read more

Product Description
"A spirited story of adventure. . . . Highly inspiring."--Kirkus, starred review

It was an extraordinary dream fueled by hope and courage. Liz Fordred and her husband, Pete, both paralyzed and with no sailing experience, made the unlikely decision to build a boat, haul it 1,200 miles to the coast, and set sail alone to see the world.

Their plan seemed impossible, the obstacles insurmountable. They had only time, the gift of laughter, an unstoppable resolve, and each other. After years of labor, their struggle to reclaim lives of purpose and adventure--lives lived without limits--launched them into the vast Atlantic. They had the whole world before them--and somewhere in it a new home and a new life were waiting to be claimed . . .

Life is about how you respond to not only the challenges you're dealt but the challenges you seek. . . . If you have no goals, no mountains to climb, your soul dies."--Liz Fordred ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Nothing Is Impossible!Liz and Pete live it.
From www.creativewordco.com

We all can get bogged down in our shortcomings and faults and then begin to mentally--and physically shut down.When this happens, I like to read about people like Pete and Liz Fordred--then I begin to remember that "impossible" and "possible" are states of mind.Imet them last weekend (10/18/03) at the "Abilities Expo" while researching options for an exciting project for paraplegics called Eaglewings. ed.

Don't say, "You can't" to Liz Fordred, or her husband Pete.Paralyzed in her teens, Liz met Pete Fordred through her work at the same Rhodesian hospital where she had been nursed back to life.Pete was in a rollover at age 19, and some thought his career as an electrician would be over.Not Pete, and not Liz.Shortly after they were married, they hit upon an idea:Why not build a sailboat?Why not learn to sail?And why not sail the boat across the Atlantic?"

Many people thought they were daft and told them so.(There were no wheelchair ramps, let alone awareness of paraplegics' true capabilities in the late 70s in landlocked Rhodesia, which later became Zimbabwe.)With their families' amazing support, they built a boat from a concrete form in a huge hole in Mum's flower bed.The amazing couple worked day jobs and built every square inch of their boat at night and on weekends, using borrowed tools and improvized parts.

The part that amazed me in the detailed and often humorous narrative is the sheer willpower it takes to haul, grind, position, and weld heavy parts with only a wheelchair or arms for mobility.Moreover, the fiercest obstacles they overcame were not debt, bureaucracy, illness, lack of experience, or tropical storms.It was doubt and derision.Yet they overcame all these--especially the last, with wit and a will to show that disability is only the state of mind of those who think the disabled cannot do what others can.Read Liz's book--it will strengthen your resolve to cross the Ocean only you know you must cross.

(For more inspiration, learn about one paraplegic man's amazing invention, "Eaglewings," which allows paralyzed people the ability to traverse long distances with a handcycle that attaches to one's wheelchair.With no need to transfer to a separate vehicle, bruises leading to pressure sores are eliminated.

Undoubtedly a wonderful true story!!! A VERY MUST READ!!!
I am a bit biased as I have known Pete and Liz since 1988. I lived next to them in a sailboat at the same dock from 1988 through 1991. I watched them work hard and raise their daughter, Jane. They were always humble and hard working and fun to be around!!!
Reading the book (Liz FINALLY wrote it!!!) showed me parts of their personalities I never got to see as their neighbors!!! I visited them after reading the book and also re-visited the boat, "Usikusiku" who would love to have a new owner(s) take her out once again!!!
Truly a finely written autobiography from a great couple and Jane who is 16 years old by now!!! (I think!!!)
They are still as hard working and humble as they were in 1988, you would never know their story unless you read the book!!! As you would see from the book, they had (and still have!!!) a great sense of humor, some of which is known only to them!!!
ENJOY!!!! then...... pass it on!!!!!

Amazing.
A story about two novice sailors building a boat and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean is interesting. When you consider that these sailors undertook this journey with the physical limitations they had, the story becomes amazing. Even though I know nothing about sailing, the author wrote with such humor and intelligence that I was kept enthralled through the entire book.

Quiet Hero...
Dear Reader, I first met Liz and Pete Fordredjust after they had completed their epic journey across the North and South Atlantic Oceans to America as told in her book: An Ocean to Cross. You couldn't meet two finer, capable people with a great story to tell!Liz personally taught me celestial navigation as well as (Pete) rebuilding the engine on my sailboat ( a center cockpit ketch) in Fort Lauderdale!I'vepersonally been on their boat, the Usikusiku[Say:'U-see-ku;see-ku'(dawn's light)They are adventures, marine architects, builders, sailors,and now Liz adds 'writer' to her many talents. If you are looking for adventure and inspiration wrapped up in a real life story, then get comfortable in you armchair and listen as a master mariner tell how (extra)ordinary people become quiet heroes....two if by sea... ...with grace and a touch of class... Sincerely, Phil Foley, Altus, America

Amazing Courage!
Once I started reading, I didn't put it down until I had finished it.This is a truly wonderful book that left me feeling inspired and ready to do whatever it takes to reach my goals.

Thank you Liz and Pete for sharing your wonderful story! ... Read more