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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.704326
EAN: 9781559635318
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1559635312
Label: Island Press
Manufacturer: Island Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 262
Publication Date: May 01, 1998
Publisher: Island Press
Studio: Island Press




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In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to find their way out of numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emergency airlift by the United States Air Force brought them to safety in Kenya where they continued their field work.

Thus began three decades of adventures in science. In An Affair with Africa, Alzada Kistner describes her family's African experience-the five expeditions they took beginning with the trip to the Belgian Congo in 1960 and ending in 1972-73 with a nine-month excursion across southern Africa. From hunching over columns of ants for hours on end while seven months pregnant to eating dinner next to Idi Amin, Kistner provides a lively and humor-filled account of the human side of scientific discovery. Her wonderfully detailed stories clearly show why, despite hardship and danger-and contrary to all of society's expectations-she could not forsake accompanying her husband on his expeditions, and, to this day, continues to find the world "endlessly beckoning, a lively bubbling cauldron of questions and intrigue.

In the spirit of Beryl Markham's West with the Night and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, An Affair with Africa shares with readers the thoughts and experiences of a remarkable woman, one whose unquenchable thirst for adventure led her into a series of almost unimaginable situations. Readers-from armchair travelers fascinated by stories of Africa to scientists familiar with the Kistners's work but unaware of the lengths to which they went to gather their data-will find An Affair with Africa a rare treasure.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Good Book about travels in africa
This is a very good book about the authors travels and expeditions to Africa collecting myrmecophiles and termitophiles which are beetles living with ants.

Dave the husband of Alzada is a researcher who collected beetles and the author went with him on his trips. They first went to Congo while it was ruled by Belgium and went to EINAC the research station. Congo was on the CUSP of freedom and they could hear the drums at night as the the drums were used to communicate ( like walkies ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Wonderful Experience of a Naturalist in Africa
This book turned out to be a gold mine for me. I of course downloaded it because it was about an experience in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s and was intruging for me. The author turned out to be much more interesting and I learned about researchers in the field. The author worked with her husband who was a naturalist specializing in insects and traveled on several expedidtions to Africa looking for beatle species who mimic the scent of African ants and termites so that they can live them relatively ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Not a very politically correct book
I agree that the author (somewhat) romanticizes colonialism. However, the family didn't seem to have a lot of contact with black Africans, so she wrote about what she experienced: the privileged lives of the Europeans there. She and her husband seem incredibly politically naive though.

That aside, I found it a fascinating book, in spite of the science, which wasn't too daunting, but caused me to mutter "here we go ..." each time it appeared.

I'd like to hear more of their adventures ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A Family in Africa
While I finished this book (and enjoyed the last half) and learned a lot of about Africa and scientific research, the insensitivity of the author to her surroundings ruined the experience for me! How can Kistner rave continually about the wonderful social whirl of the diamond-owners and fail to even mention the plight of the workers in those diamond mines. Same for the "glamorous" safaris. Not to mention the life-threatening danger to her children! Here she is -- for more than a decade -- exposed to perhaps ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the best reads about Africa
ALZADA CARLISLE KISTNER...my hat is off to you! You lived a life I could never live and yet through your wonderful book I have experienced the adventure, high drama, stark terror and beauty of Africa.Thank you. You are an inspiration! Talk about a positive attitude! When the going gets tough for me I will think of you and your family. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't enjoy this book. Your humor and practicality made it a book I just couldn't put down.




 

 

 

 

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