The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
by Mark Bixler
from University of Georgia Press
In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as "Lost Boys," who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983. The Lost Boys of Sudan focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys could be found across America. Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii were among 150 or so Lost Boys who were resettled in Atlanta. Like most of their fellow refugees, they had never before turned on a light switch, used a kitchen appliance, or ridden in a car or subway train-much less held a job or balanced a checkbook. We relive their early excitement and disorientation, their growing despondency over fruitless job searches, adjustments they faced upon finally entering the workforce, their experiences of post-9/11 xenophobia, and their undying dreams of acquiring an education.
As we immerse ourselves in the Lost Boys' daily lives, we also get to know the social services professionals and volunteers, celebrities, community leaders, and others who guided them-with occasional detours-toward self-sufficiency. Along the way author Mark Bixler looks closely at the ins and outs of U.S. refugee policy, the politics of international aid, the history of Sudan, and the radical Islamist underpinnings of its government. America is home to more foreign-born residents than ever before; the Lost Boys have repaid that gift in full through their example of unflagging resolve, hope, and faith.
Sudan: The Bradt Travel Guide
by Paul Clammer
from Bradt Travel Guides
The Red Sea (Secrets of the Sea)
by David Doubilet
from Whitestar
Sudan Map by ITMB (Travel Reference Map) (Travel Reference Map)
by Itmb Publishing Ltd
from ITMB Publishing
Folded road and travel map in color. Scale 1:2,500,000. Distinguishes roads ranging from primary roads to other roads/tracks. Legend includes international/provincial boundaries, railroads, ferry lines, water/wells, dunes, international/national airports, airfields (small crafts), ports, gas stations, border crossings, points of interest, museums, archeological sites, wildlife reserves, nature reserves, missions/churches, mosques, campsites/huts, hotels, rest houses, hostels, oasis, diving sites, passes, coral reefs, National Parks. Includes inset of Khartoum.
Rendicion o hambre: Viajes por Etiopia, Sudan, Somalia y Eritrea
by Robert D. Kaplan
from Ediciones B
The Other Nile: Journeys in Egypt, the Sudan, and Ethiopia
A Novice On The Nile - Big Game Hunting In The Sudan
by Frank Weber
from Read Country Books
A NOVICE ON THE NILE - BIG GAME HUNTING IN THE SUDAN. By Frank Weber. Originally published in the early 1900's. this extremely scarce hunting book is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS have now republished it using the original text and photographs. This is an enthralling true account of the author's first hunting trip along the White Nile in the Upper Sudan. Accompanied by a lifelong friend and experienced hunter he sets forth from England via Trieste and Alexandria, through Cairo to Khartum, then joined by native guides and bearers, they begin their hunt along the banks of the Nile. Equipped with double .470's, light magazine rifles, a 10 Bore, and shotguns, they seek to take a number of specimens from the area's big game population. Their list of quarry include elephant, buffalo, eland, ibex, waterbuck, various gazelle, kob, "Mrs Gray", crocodiles and hippo's. etc. Fifty four pages are packed with exciting anecdotes of their often dangerous attempts to bag specimens of each of these. The book also contains a number of early black and white trophy photographs and an area map. The author professes to be a novice hunter, but guided by his more experienced companion ends the safari with a fair share of the total bag. This small book is a fascinating record of early big game hunting in one of the more inaccessible hunting grounds of Africa, and will prove of much interest to all sportsmen and historians of that era. Many of the earliest sporting books, particularly those dating back to the 1800s, are now extremely scarce and very expensive. READ COUNTRY BOOKS are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Suffering Strong: The Journal of a Westerner in Ethiopia, the Sudan, Eritrea, and Chad (Current Issues Series, No. 3)
Sudan Country Study Guide (World Country Study Guide
by Ibp Usa
from International Business Publications, USA
Sudan Country Study Guide (World Country Study Guide
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