Have you managed to look at my site, http://www.bestforreading.com to have a look at all the hot new releases? A few books will only be released tomorrow, 8 January 2013. And while we are on the subject of 2013; may you all have a positive, awe-inspiring New Year. Hey, look at the bright side of things, we survived 21 December 2012 when the world was meant to come to an end according to the Mayan calender. According to some this was a "mushroom" trip from certain New Age individuals!
For those of you who have been waiting for my post last week, just to let you know that I did not experience a "writer's block". I had a long standing friend visiting from Beijing here. He invited me to stay for a few days at his holiday home in Uilenkraalsmond (the mouth of the owl), a holiday resort just past Gansbaai (Goose Bay), but there is no translation in English. http://uilenkraalsmond.co.za/
Here are a few photo's.
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| On the beach with Uilenkraalsmond in the background |
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| The Beach |
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| The tranquil sea |
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| My friend's holiday house. |
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| Inside, the lounge area |
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| Under water. some or other sea plant. |
I have left Cape Town on Friday morning, 28 December 2012 as I was meant to meet him in Hermanus, the capital of the Whale Watching Route. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermanus. We met for breakfast and while eating, we noticed smoke bulging from the mountain peaks. I must mention that there was a strong North Western wind blowing. As I drove out of Hermanus towards Stanford on route to Uilenkraalsmond, I could see that the wind will force the flames down towards the lower slopes. On Saturday morning we woke up with no electricity, mobile reception or Internet. This was down for nearly two whole days. We being South African Afrikaners are not perturbed by this and made a fire outside in the fire place and cooked food on the fire in a cast iron pot. this is called potjiekos (food in a pot). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potjiekos This is my reason why I did not post my regular blog on the Monday morning. When I returned to Cape Town on Tuesday, I could understand while all communications and power was down. Have a look at this link. http://www.hermanustimes.co.za/982/media/photogallery/stanford-fire
As mentioned before, I have uploaded Hot New Releases on my website http://www.bestforreading.com. Have look at this wonderful book!
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? [Hardcover]
Jared Diamond
(Author)
Book Description
Most of us take for granted the features of our
modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and
obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human
society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from
our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much
of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or
recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea
Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary
time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies
and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern
conditions.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticise traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. A characteristically provocative, enlightening, and entertaining book, The World Until Yesterday will be essential and delightful reading.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticise traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. A characteristically provocative, enlightening, and entertaining book, The World Until Yesterday will be essential and delightful reading.
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