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Oct.03.2012 Historical Intersections Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is about the North American border wars of the 1830s. The Book of War is about the Southern African border wars of the 1850s. Sir Harry Smith, known in The Book of War as 'the General', the man who was unable to defeat the great Xhosa strategist, Maqoma, was also...	Dec.03.2009 Beware the warthogs I recently moved from Maryland to Harare, Zimbabwe. It was a basically uneventful move, except for the incredible expense and hassle of getting my Pekinese, Chong, transported. A 10-pound dog cost more than a 220 pound man to fly from Washington, DC to Harare. There was, near the end of the...
Mar.18.2009 African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe by Doris Lessing -- A Review Doris Lessing's African Laughter traces four visits to Zimbabwe over a ten year period (1982 to 1992). Ostensibly she returned to the land of her childhood (and setting of much of The Golden Notebooks) as a journalist, but this book is a reflective memoir...episodic...a crisscrossing travelogue of...