One beat of a butterfly's heart : a Tanganyika police notebook / R.N. Callander.

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Callander, R. N. (Ron N.), 1933- [author.]

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9781928211204
1928211208

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: One beat of a butterfly's heartDDC classification:

967.82 23

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DT440 .C359 2014eb

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; Prologue; Part 1: It was a Secret but it Escaped; Chapter 1: First Impressions; Chapter 2: Great White Chief; Chapter 3: Acclimatisation Blues; Chapter 4: East is East; Chapter 5: Imposter; Chapter 6: Blood, Sweat and Tears; Chapter 7: Background Briefing; Chapter 8: Offer of Employment; Chapter 9: Too Beautiful for Words; Chapter 10: Tribalism; Chapter 11: A Visitor Arrives; Chapter 12: Sudden Light; Chapter 13: Charivari; Chapter 14: Intimate Strangers.

Chapter 15: Politics, Religion and Sex ... Chapter 16: The Watcher; Chapter 17: Movin' On; Part 2: They Opened a Door for me to Enter; Chapter 18: Disregarding Trivialities; Chapter 19: En Route; Chapter 20: Still En Route; Chapter 21: The Lake; Chapter 22: The Drill; Chapter 23: End of the Earth; Chapter 24: Remoteness; Chapter 25: Under New Management; Chapter 26: Exorcism and Duty; Chapter 27: In the Bush; Chapter 28: The Animal Business; Chapter 29: Riot; Chapter 30: Discipline; Chapter 31: Falling Apart; Chapter 32: On the Mountain; Epilogue.

Summary: In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police officer, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, first-hand account of a rare period of recent history. It tellshow an Australian veteran, fresh from the Korean War, became a colonial police officer in Tanganyika Territory (later Tanzania after federation with the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 1964). The reader is taken on a journey which tourists in Africa never see: from back alleys and police cells in the polyglot city of Dar es Salaam, to snake-infested camps on Uganda-Ruanda border patrols, and on police field force emergency operations from barracks at the foot of Kilimanjaro.Summary: Stories of war, love and many things in between. His stories range from Germany to Korea, Malaysia to Mexico, Japan to Australia.

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In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police officer, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, first-hand account of a rare period of recent history. It tellshow an Australian veteran, fresh from the Korean War, became a colonial police officer in Tanganyika Territory (later Tanzania after federation with the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 1964). The reader is taken on a journey which tourists in Africa never see: from back alleys and police cells in the polyglot city of Dar es Salaam, to snake-infested camps on Uganda-Ruanda border patrols, and on police field force emergency operations from barracks at the foot of Kilimanjaro.

Stories of war, love and many things in between. His stories range from Germany to Korea, Malaysia to Mexico, Japan to Australia.

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