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World's Major Airlines
Review
by Jerry W. Bird, Editor and
Publisher
With
our biggest aviation edition in
ten years well underway,
serendipity played its familiar
role in my life when I received
THE WORLD'S MAJOR AIRLINES by
David Wragg. It arrived by mail
last week courtesy of the MBI
Publishing, St. Paul, MN and was
presented by John Wurm, Publicist
for Military and Aviation. I plan
to write this book review in
installments, since my first
reading was to get an overall
position on how valuable this
timely and well researched book
will be in my evaluation of
Africa's airlines and others
serving the continent. Here are
some comments from MBI that help
set the stage. "Today there are
so many airlines operating
throughout the world that even
the most knowledgeable enthusiast
can soon become confused about
which airline flies from where to
where. This new, fully
illustrated edition has been
revised and updated to include
the major advances in the
aviation industry since 1998.The
author has added introductions
for each nation, summarizing its
history of civil aviation and
placing the subsequent entries in
context. In the World's Major
Airlines David Wragg provides
more than 500 entries. Listed in
alphabetical order by country is
every airline in the world which
has more than five aircraft with
more than 19 seats,or equivalent
cargo capacity. Comprehensive
information is given on the name,
history, bases, aircraft
operated, routes flown, number of
passengers and tonnage of cargo
flown annually, and much other
useful and interesting data. The
World's Major Airlines is an
invaluable source of reference
for aviation enthusiasts,
travelers and those working
within the industry." More to
come.
"Ethiopia
Through the Eyes of a
Photographer"
Colour
photography, text, design and
layout by Angela
Fairbank.
This
80-page book of colourful photos
from Ethiopia, originating from
trips taken in September and
November 2005, highlights Addis
Ababa, Axum, Lalibela, the Rift
Valley and the Omo Valley as well
as the Kambala, Alaba, Wolayta,
Sidamo, Dorze, Derashe, Ari,
Tsemay, Konso, Mursi, Karo,
Hamer, Dassanech, Erbore and
Borana tribes. Available in the
following sizes: 11.25" x 8.75",
15" x 11.5" or 7.75" x 5.75".
Prices start at CDN/US$40.|tel:
(1) 604 738 4588 . e-mail:
acfairbank@shaw.ca
, web:
http://www.acfairbankconsulting.ca
Fred
Krakowiak's outstanding book "An
Artist's Safari" drawing global
raves
While
Fred lives in Phoenix, Arizona,
like ourselves his heart is in
Africa. Amazon describes it as
follows: Part memoir, part
meditation, this intimate
portfolio is a collection of
vivid stories and evocative
images that honor this immense
and wild land. Through
breathtaking illustrations and a
well-informed narration, the
collection captures an Africa
full of color and texture, energy
and motion, passion and hope. In
addition to sketches drawn while
trekking, the book features
reproductions of final pieces
painted on a variety of materials
&emdash;bronze, copper, rice
paper, silk &emdash;and expressed
through the ancient art of
sumi. Accompanying sidebars
reveal facts about the various
African animals&emdash; lions,
leopards, elephants, rhinos,
water buffalo,and the
like&emdash; such as their
markings, size, behavior,
gestation, life span, predators,
defense, and conservation
measures being taken to save
them.
Here's what readers are saying
about Fred's outstanding
book.
"The impeccable quality, unique
technique, and attention to
detail in Krakowiak's work is a
tribute to the magnificence of
the untamed world."
&emdash;Kevin Peters, nature
sculptor
"It is the
power of the paintings that will
bring you back to this book time
and again." &emdash;David
T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor
of Spanish, University of
Virginia, in Virginia Quarterly
Review
"Krakowiak is a gifted artist and
offers the reader his perceptions
of sights of Africa in a variety
of media." &emdash;Jean L.
Cooper, grants officer and
information services librarian,
University of Virginia, in
Virginia Quarterly Review
"A stunning coffee table
portrayal of a safari by a
wildlife artist."
&emdash;Talking Travel Africa.
Available
at Amazon
"When
Trumpets Call" by Patricia
O'Toole (Simon & Schuster,
2005).
"When Trumpets Call" is a
superb, almost tactile
examination of the journey that
began on the day Theodore
Roosevelt left the presidency in
1909, at age 50, and ended with
his death in 1919. Patricia
O'Toole beautifully chronicles
the physical and intellectual
restlessness that fueled the last
decade of TR's life. His first
project as a private citizen was
to embark on an African
safari. It was meant to be a
low-key getaway from his
clamorous public life, but it
quickly turned into an expedition
"of biblical proportions,"
O'Toole writes. TR's break from
presidential politics was also
short-lived: He campaigned as a
third-party candidate in 1912,
burnishing his legend by
insisting on giving a speech in
Milwaukee even though he was
bleeding from a gunshot wound in
the chest after a failed
assassination attempt. TR's life
was "one of the longest-running,
most colorful serials in American
history," O'Toole says, a story
"by turns exhilarating,
exasperating, amusing, and
inspiring."
Smithsonian
Books on Aerospace
From Five Best Books on
Selling
Understanding Media.
"I have no idea who
might be the smartest human ever,
but the most brilliant marketing
mind of all belonged to Marshall
McLuhan. "Understanding Media" is
a timeless analysis of how
language, speech and technology
shape human behavior in the era
of mass communication. The book
is a cautionary tale for
marketers today who hear the
Web's siren call and ignore the
power of the spoken word. Whether
heard onstage, over the phone, or
on radio or TV, McLuhan says, the
spoken word is ultimately much
more powerful than the write."
more->
Portrait
of Affluent
Travelers
There
is an art to traveling well. Now,
there is also a science to
understanding those who do. In
today's affluent travel
marketplace, keeping up with the
Jones's means more than keeping
up with trends- it means keeping
up with your business' potential.
You need insightful and in-depth
analysis of this wealthy market
so you can tap into an important
source of revenue.
About
the source.
 Books
with a focus on Sunny Africa
by
Muguette M.
Goufrani
Here's a
definite must for your
bookshelf.
BRADT
TRAVEL GUIDES: ANTARCTICA TO
ZANZIBAR.
BRADT
publishes travel guides to all
corners of the world, as well as
guides on rail travel, wildlife,
backpacking, and hiking. Whether
you are traveling on business or
on holiday, independently or on a
group tour, Bradt's individual
guides provide far and away the
best information for adventurous
and environmentally conscious
travelers. Africa titles include:
Africa & Madagascar- Total
Eclipse; Cape Verde Islands ;
East and Southern Africa; The
Backpacker's Manual; Guide to
Ethiopia; Guide to Ghana;
Madagascar Wildlife; Madagascar;
Malawi ; Mauritius, Rodrigues and
Reunion; Guide to Mozambique;
Namibia; Guide to South Africa ;
Tanzania; Southern Africa by
Rail; Uganda; Zambia; Guide to
Zanzibar; Your Child's Health
Abroad. http://www.bradt-travelguides.com/system/index.html
Making
Choices! As
a former full time Travel Agent
and Tour conductor, who is now in
the publishing business, I spend
gobs of time in and around book
stores. I seek out places that
are user-friendly, like our
friend Kevin McKeown's shop down
the street, which offers rare
titles and loads of advice about
concerts and events for which he
handles media relations. To me
both downtown branches of
Chapters is a "Bookstore Heaven."
Being there becomes a destination
in itself. As for public
libraries, every week we drive at
least 20 extra miles through
downtown traffic and road blocks,
to Richmond (beyond the
international airport) and back,
just to frequent our favorite
library. It is clean, courteous,
well stocked and they do all the
little things right. The same
goes for choosing Web Sites, some
are user-friendly, yet far too
many seem like they want to take
your money and run. They are also
hard to navigate and leave the
viewer in total frustration. So
as time goes by we will introduce
you to our choice of books and
guides. Bon Voyage, and Happy
Reading.
OUR
EDITOR'S FAVORITE NEW REFERENCE
BOOK: He recommends this one,
just released by McGraw-HIll. The
Complete Reference Internet
Millennium Edition. According to
him it has everything - and very
little fluff.
BOOKS
ON ECOTOURISM AND
ECOTRAVEL
- http://www.ecotraveler.com/
Big
Little Books of
Adventures:
Camera
Safaris and Ecotourism around the
world. Air Highways and Africa
Travel Magazine's "Electronic
Media Kit" will soon be
available
on Adobe Acrobat Reader software,
down- loadable from:
http://www.adobe.com
"Hideous
Kinky" looks at Morocco in the
70s:
Esther
Freud,the author of the
autobiographical novel "Hideous
Kinky", made into the movie of
the same name, starring Kate
Winslet and currently running at
theaters in North America is
currently on a tour. We at Africa
Travel Magazine enjoyed the move
immensely. "Hideous Kinky" is
about the spiritual journey taken
by a young single mother with her
two daughters through Morocco in
the 1970s. Since publishing
"Hideous Kinky", her first novel
in 1992, Ms. Freud (
granddaughter of Sigmund and
daughter of the painter Lucian)
has produced two more novels,
"Peerless Flats" and "Summer in
Glasgow".
African
Books
you can order from the
Internet
http://www.woyaa.com/shopping/eng/books/
Myth,
Literature, and the African
World:
by Wole Soyinka, Paperback -
168 pages. The ways in which the
African world perceives itself as
a cultural whole that
interconnects myth, ritual and
literature and the differences
between its essential unity and
the sense of division pervading
Western literature are emphasized
in this classic
analysis.
Lonely
Planet Africa : On a
Shoestring:
by Hugh Finlay, Geoff
Crowther, Paperback - 1000
pages
Vast in size and history, with
equally vast potential for
rewarding experiences and
red-tape hassles, Africa more
than any other continent requires
a solid and reliable guidebook
for anything other than the most
superficial of visits. It is the
sort of information-packed guide
at which Lonely Planet excels.
The
Rough Guide to West Africa
(1995):
by Jim Hudgens, Richard
Trillo, Paperback (December
1995)
Hitch a smooth ride across the
Sahara with veteran authors Jim
Hudgens and Richard Trillo. Their
Rough Guide to West Africa, now
in its second edition, takes you
from bustling Dakar and other
capitals to all the remote towns
and beaches. The Rough Guide
expertly covers the basics -
lodging, transportation,
etiquette and inoculations - and
the breadth of activities -
nightlife, seeing the wildlife
and volunteering.
Kilimanjaro
& Mount Kenya : A Climbing
and Trekking
Guide
by Cameron M. Burns,
Paperback - 176 pages
Pre-trip planning, finding and
hiring outfitters, and thorough
information on dozens of trails
are included in this
comprehensive guide to the 30 top
climbing and trekking routes on
Mount Kilimanjaro and her sister
peak, Mount Kenya color insert.
30 b&w photos
Africa
: A Biography of the
Continent:
by John Reader, Hardcover -
752 pages
"The ancestors of all humanity
evolved in Africa," notes
photojournalist John Reader at
the beginning of this epic,
panoramic overview of African
history. From the formation of
the continent to the present,
Reader's informative narrative
tells the story of the earliest
dwellers and the natural
obstacles of desert, jungle, and
animals they faced, ....
Arabian
Nights and
Days:
by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys ,
Hardcover - 227 pages
An austerely modern reworking of
The Thousand and One Nights-the
most magical work yet set into
English by Egyptian Nobel
laureate Mahfouz (The Harafish,
1994, etc.). Although these
intertwined fables are, like the
volume that inspired them, set in
the past, they deal with
all-too-modern consequences of
fairy-tale
Icons
of
Aviation:
Book
Reviews include a biography of
the most dedicated tourism
pioneer in America's North
Country, Mr. Alaska, Charlie
West. Also, Edmonton's Grant
MacConachie, founder of Canadian
Pacific Airlines, who dreamed of
an air bridge to the Orient and
across the pole.
How
did Doctor Doolittle talk to the
animals? Send us your suggestions
for our wildlife conservation
series. Fax 604.681.6595 or send
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