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An African Season

Leonard Levitt

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Description:A young man who taught in Tanganyika with the Peace Corps in the early 1960's tells about his experiences during his first year as a secondary teacher.An African Season is the story of a young American's experiences teaching in a district school in Tanganyika and traveling in "white man's country," Rhodesia and South Africa. In a style that is remarkable for its simplicity, warmth and candor, Leonard Levitt makes us see what it was like......to teach his boys the meaning of a day, a year, a season...to be hailed as broo (brother) and offered the potent pombe by the friendly villagers...to coach Headmaster Twakatulu for his promotion exams...to devise a "scientific" explanation for using the always-left-out small boys on the basketball team...to visit the home of his star pupil, Fedson, and meet his father and three mothers...to be grateful beyond words for a hot bath...to find his students huddled around a small lamp long after curfew, working on their sums...to hear a teacher say earnestly, about witchcraft, "But it's true, broo, it's really true"...to watch the boys' eyes light up at the news that each would have his own copy of Gulliver's Travels for two weeks...to face incredulous stares from Rhodesian whites when they learn what he is doing.An African Season is both a young man's odyssey and a remarkable picture of Africa. In the words of Me. Twakatulu, it is "very, very."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An African Season. To get started finding An African Season, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 223

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Release: 1966

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Description: A young man who taught in Tanganyika with the Peace Corps in the early 1960's tells about his experiences during his first year as a secondary teacher.An African Season is the story of a young American's experiences teaching in a district school in Tanganyika and traveling in "white man's country," Rhodesia and South Africa. In a style that is remarkable for its simplicity, warmth and candor, Leonard Levitt makes us see what it was like......to teach his boys the meaning of a day, a year, a season...to be hailed as broo (brother) and offered the potent pombe by the friendly villagers...to coach Headmaster Twakatulu for his promotion exams...to devise a "scientific" explanation for using the always-left-out small boys on the basketball team...to visit the home of his star pupil, Fedson, and meet his father and three mothers...to be grateful beyond words for a hot bath...to find his students huddled around a small lamp long after curfew, working on their sums...to hear a teacher say earnestly, about witchcraft, "But it's true, broo, it's really true"...to watch the boys' eyes light up at the news that each would have his own copy of Gulliver's Travels for two weeks...to face incredulous stares from Rhodesian whites when they learn what he is doing.An African Season is both a young man's odyssey and a remarkable picture of Africa. In the words of Me. Twakatulu, it is "very, very."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An African Season. To get started finding An African Season, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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