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Levitov, Betty.
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Levitov, Betty -- Travel -- Africa.
Levitov, Betty -- Philosophy.
College teachers -- Nebraska -- Biography.
College students -- Nebraska -- Biography.
College students -- Travel -- Africa.
Bus travel -- Africa.
Foreign study -- Africa.
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Africa -- Description and travel.
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Levitov, Betty.
Levitov, Betty -- Travel -- Africa.
Levitov, Betty -- Philosophy.
College teachers -- Nebraska -- Biography.
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Bus travel -- Africa.
Foreign study -- Africa.
Teaching -- Philosophy.
Africa -- Description and travel.
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Africa on six wheels : a semester on safari / Betty Levitov.
by
Levitov, Betty.
University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
Call #:
916.7 L666a
Subjects
Levitov, Betty
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Travel
--
Africa.
Levitov, Betty
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Philosophy.
College
teachers
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Nebraska
--
Biography
.
College
students
--
Nebraska
--
Biography
.
College
students
--
Travel
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Africa.
Bus travel
--
Africa.
Foreign study
--
Africa.
Teaching
--
Philosophy.
Africa
--
Description and travel.
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ISBN:
9780803280540 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0803280548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description:
xiv, 184 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Bison Books"--P. [i].
Summary:
""I think I get it," Betty Levitov's youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. "You've had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you'll do just about anything." The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take thirteen kids from a small midwestern liberal arts
college
on a three-month trek across Africa." "The answer, a learning experience like no other, unfolds in Levitov's account of her life-changing stint as a mwalimu ("teacher" in Swahili) with an Australian bus driver and thirteen
college
kids from
Nebraska
in tow. The group's wanderings take them - and us - through seven countries. Through dhow trips and donkey rides on the Swahili island of Lamu, scuba diving and spice tours in Zanzibar, camping in the Namib Desert, and swimming on the edge of a cataract at Victoria Falls, we encounter remarkable people, new customs, and intriguing arts (along with malaria, flat tires, a bike accident, and a hostage crisis). As the
students
apprentice themselves to African cooks, fishermen, carvers, and batik artists, we discover with them a subtle and complex connection among people normally worlds apart."--BOOK JACKET.
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