LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian mathie

7 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian mathie

  • Wild Child
    Ian Mathie
    Ian Mathie was an entertaining raconteur and writer who told his true life stories with great vigour and enthusiasm. He had an amazing memory and was able to recall the smallest details, even from his early childhood. His life was packed with unusual experiences and adventures in distant places with strange people, wild animals, danger and fun.He had an extraordinary start in l...
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    13,21 €

  • Chinese Take-out
    Ian Mathie
    Chinese Take-out spins a web of international deception, corruption and intrigue against the backdrop of a growing undercurrent in the Chinese democracy movement which periodically erupts with interesting consequences. A chance snippet of information and a suspicious mind lead to a complicated tale of detection involving lust, love and high-tech espionage in the remote US wild...
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    10,30 €

  • Sorcerers and Orange Peel
    Ian Mathie
    Sorcery is a fact of life in many African societies; the supernatural is taken for granted. In SORCERERS AND ORANGE PEEL, Ian Mathie describes how he came across an elderly couple, sick and abandoned in an inhospitable part of West Africa. Ignoring the warning signs of witchcraft and frightening encounters with an apparition, he coaxed them back to health. Thus began a remarkab...
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    15,67 €

  • Dust of the Danakil
    Ian Mathie
    Drought is a natural disaster; starvation is a man-made tragedy. Preventing the former can go a long way to alleviating the latter, but not without the political will, as Ian Mathie makes clear in this gripping memoir of the 1974 humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. DUST OF THE DANAKIL is a true story of an ill-conceived project run by the author in the violent, drought-stricken D...
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    15,80 €

  • Supper with the President
    Ian Mathie
    West Africa in the 1970s was a volatile mélange of old and new; of aspiration, corruption, power and influence. In its midst, Ian Mathie laboured in his role as a water engineer to help improve the lives of ordinary people. His work brought him in touch with presidents, kings, emperors, chiefs and a succession of extraordinary characters. Circumstances contrived to place him at...
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    15,84 €

  • Man in a Mud Hut
    Ian Mathie
    An uninvited 'ferret' from Whitehall, dark deeds in the 'heart of darkness', escape from bloody terror and black magic - a true story that shocks the sensibilities and staggers the imagination... West Africa is the setting for MAN IN A MUD HUT, an intriguing story of witchcraft, wizardry, water resources and Whitehall bureaucracy. It is the gripping true account of a clash of ...
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    15,71 €

  • Bride Price
    Ian Mathie
    Working and living in the forests of Zaïre during the reign of President Mobuto Sese Seko in the 1970s, Ian Mathie found himself the foster father of an orphaned girl. When a powerful and feared man from another village demanded that he set a 'bride price' for the child, Ian was forced to rely on his wits and courage to find a way within the rich traditions of the area to set a...
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    15,90 €