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Memoir
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"There were the Ngong Hills. Those four very distinct knuckles, rising before me in a 180-degree postcard view, were the Africa I had been dreaming about. And despite my pronounced insecurities about the situation I had just plunked myself down in, I suddenly felt that if I could just sit there, look at those hills, and smell the air in Africa, I just might live through the year I had signed on for. For the first time since I had arrived in Nairobi, I could remember what it was about Africa that had captured such a large part of my soul. There is an expression, 'Once you have Africa in your blood....' Well, I sure had it in mine."."
Early praise for Jambo, Mama from WWW readers
"Jambo, Mama has caused me to laugh out loud many, many times."
Sally Wright
"I have spent the last two days camped out in front of my computer unable to tear myself away."
Francoise Kirkwood
"I downloaded it and stayed up all night reading. I am going to have to share this find."
Adrian Rowland
"You have created the person every woman has within."
Peggy River
"Your book has quickened my pulse and strengthened my resolve to go to Africa. Thank you again."
Agnes Merrick
"I have read faithfully every chapter as it has been put online. It's biting sense of humor keeps me howling."
Steven Smith
"I have just finished chapter 1 and am totally mesmerized by this story!
Kathy Mathews
"A must read for anyone traveling to Kenya."
Chet Holmes
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34 人中、33人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Review of Melinda Atwood's Jambo Mama
2000/11/24
形式:ハードカバー
It was in search of information about Africa I first stumbled across the pages of a travel agency. Available on their pages was Jambo Mama. For free. Why not, I thought, and downloaded the piece. After I had read the three first chapters, I had to find out if the story was true or fiction, but the travel agency didn't provide much information about either author or the book itself. What was provided, though, was ms. Atwoods e-mail adress. Contacting her personally, I asked about the story's validity. She could confirm that all was taken from her own first-hand experiences of the country, people and culture of Kenya. Wow! Talk about a major adventure...
Her story is the story about a girl who, upon returning from a vacation in Kenya, finds that the easy, urban life of America is not satisfactory. A yearning for the warm African nights and all that goes with it builds to an irresistable urge to move for a longer period of time. She thinks things over, and decides to pack up her entire life and leave. She rents a house in suburban Nairobi and begins a life almost from scratch. It is the story of a girl who experienced African life up close. Some of the challenges she faces include surviving rough safari's (not designed for the average tourist), running a small-scale business (the African way) and maintaining a social life. As any good story, it also includes some good romance...
Melinda Atwood writes with an easy language that is full of life. Even though you won't find the most profound metaphors in her all over elegant sentences, you start imagining yourself in her situation after a couple of paragraphs. Her book gives a great description of the many moods of that which lies under the African sun. You can even expect to pick up a couple of phrases in Swahili. I can recommend Jambo Mama to everyone who wants to know more about Africa, and especially Kenya, but also to anyone who enjoy a good story. If you, after reading this review and others, find the book unworthy your time and money: pole sana! (don`t understand? read the book)
Reviewed by Stian Rein Andresen and ystein Tsse Larsen
15 人中、15人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Refreshingly honest
2002/3/14
形式:ハードカバー
I thorougly enjoyed reading this book! Melinda is a wonderful and entertaining writer whose description of her life in Kenya was written with complete honesty and candor. I am afraid vanity would not have allowed me to be quite so honest. Her detailed accounts of her trials and triumphs kept me turning the pages. Since I have visited Kenya several times, and especially the Masai Mara Game Reserve, I felt as if I were right there with her. She wrote with compassion towards the people she knew and loved there, and best of all, she wrote with a sharp wit and an incredible sense of humor. I found myself laughing out loud often. It wasn't an easy thing she did, moving to Africa by herself for an extended period of time, for Africa and New York are as different as night and day. Melinda did, however, what so many others only think of doing...she followed her dream. For the reader who wants to learn more about modern Kenya, this book is for you. For the reader who wants a fun, interesting, informative, romantic, and heartfelt book to read, then don't miss this one. I highly recommend "Jambo Mama."
25 人中、23人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
~Helped me dream of Africa~
2002/3/26
形式:ハードカバー
Just finished reading this wonderful book this week-end! It's about a middle-aged woman with a dream to throw herself into "once-in-lifetime" adventure and fulfill a long time fantasy.....to live in Africa. I found her descriptions of Kenya and the other places she visited via Safari, to be informative and insightful yet at the same frightening and exciting. She describes her day-to-day life struggling to live out her dream. There are the cultural differences, language barriers, dangers, and the ever present lonliness but when she looks out at the vast beauty that is Africa, it is all worth it. She embraces each challenge with dogged determination to prove to herself that she can overcome the sometimes seeming insurmountable obstacles. I've never been to Africa and don't know if I'll ever get there in view of the dangers surrounding travel outside this country, but I was able to live vicariously through this magical memoir and dream.
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