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Title: A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique (Perspectives on South Africa) by William Finnegan ISBN: 0-520-08266-4 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Valuable and painful insights into Mozambique's past.
Comment: This is a lively and well written book which deals with the period of civil war in Mozambique. It was completed and published just before the conclusion of a successful peace process and so provides a particularly clear and powerful view of recent history.It is based on the author's travels within country during the war period and includes extensive interviews. The people he talked and worked with emerge as very vivid and lively characters. The support of the rebels by Rhodesia and South Africa, and the reasons for that support, are well described. A must read for anyone going to work in Mz, strongly recommended for the serious traveler as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: I bought this book before a trip to Mozambique in the summer of 2000. It was very hard to find books about the country. I ended up coming to Amazon and jsut doing a search. This was one of the books I bought sight unseen. It turned out to be the best. It was the most complete book as far as giving me a big picture of what the people had been through in recent years. The book has many anecdotes to show the typical western reader just how different life is in Mozambique. I found that the sense of poverty as well as generosity and warmth that the author communicated was verified by my own experience. It is the stories of the everyday person in the book that are so wonderful. Stories of the joy of children upon recieving a gift of a pen or the desire of young man for a pair of shoes.
The Mozambicans are amazing people. I apprciated them even more because I had read this this book. I was filled with wonder at the total complete wonderful humanity I encountered given the populations truly horrible experience of war.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece of Investigative Journalism
Comment: Anyone who wants to know about Mozambique's recent history must read this book--not just because it's full of names, facts and dates, but because it's a stunning work of exploration and exposure by a journalist who chose to travel through a viciously dangerous countryside to try to understand the reality of a nation devastated by fear. But more than that, this is also a superb piece of writing: engrossing from beginning to end, every page packed with vivid prose and thought-provoking discussion. I read this book in Mozambique in 1992 and it made an enormous difference
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Title: With Both Hands Waving: A Journey Through Mozambique by Justin Fox ISBN: 0795701446 Publisher: Kwela Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Mozambique (LONELY PLANET MOZAMBIQUE) by Mary Fitzpatrick ISBN: 1864501081 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Mozambique, 3rd: The Bradt Travel Guide by Philip Briggs, Ross Velton ISBN: 1841620424 Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Angola: Promises and Lies by Karl Maier ISBN: 1897959222 Publisher: Serif Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Essential Portuguese Grammar (Dover Books on Language) by Alexander Da R. Prista ISBN: 0486216500 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1966 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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