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Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextIn 1972 a young mining engineer is offered the opportunity to start a new mine which he takes and has to overcome many obstacles along the way.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Assistant Superintendent Englebrecht of the Botswana Police investigates a series of deaths and discovers that they all relate to events that happened twenty years earlier. She also works with the South African Police who have had a similar spate of unsolved deaths.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When an abandoned Land Rover leads to the discovery of two headless corpses buried in the Botswana mopane forest, Assistant Superintendent Marieke Englebrecht is presented with the challenge of identifying them, then determining who killed them and why. Her investigations take her to the bush in the northern parts of Botswana, England and Italy. The murders were cleverly done and it takes all her skills as an investigator to uncover the truth and then all her wiles to bring the suspects in for questioning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is 1977 and James Martin is offered the opportunity to go to South Africa and run the local subsidiary of James & Brown, the company he has worked for since leaving Zambia. He and his wife, Katrina, relocate to Johannesburg and start a life there amid the undercurrents of civil unrest brought about by the apartheid policies of the government.James seeks out new sales prospects and manages the local parts and service business, while navigating the peculiar world that was South Africa in the 1970s. He and Katrina do take time to explore as much of South Africa as they can. It is not Zambia, where they had lived once, but it is still Africa and for them it is good to be back.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When in 1975 James and Katrina Martin arrive in Milwaukee for a job possibility they are ill prepared for the Wisconsin winters. It is colder than the United Kingdom that they have just left and incomparable to the winters of Zambia where they have just spent the past several years.James secures employment with a manufacturer of mining and construction machinery. Well, there you go! follows the first year of the couple's life in the New World as immigrants. They go through the language differences, the challenge of finding a place to live and furnishing it and the peculiarities of buying cars in the United States.James travels the United States as an application engineer working with local sales representatives to sell the features and advantages of the company's line of mining machines. In his frequent absences Katrina faces the loneliness of living in a strange place where they have no family and the only friends they have are those they make in this new place.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When in 1969 James Martin leaves England to start work in Central Africa, he has little idea of what to expect and how his life will change. James goes to work in a copper mine in Zambia and spends his days in the heat and humidity of the underground. He toils below the ground for six and a half days a week rarely seeing many hours of daylight. On the surface things are very different. Looking for a social life he is fortunate to be introduced to Katrina Englebrecht, a true daughter of Africa. She offers him light and sunshine, metaphorically and practically.James balances the risks of working underground in the dust and darkness with the rewards of the company of Katrina. Katrina gives James insights into the cultural complexities of the white white and white black divides. She also introduces him to the African bush and the peace and quiet that can be found a few miles from town. Together James and Katrina make excursions into the bush leading to visits to the wild places where they enjoy romantic encounters.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a guest at a bush camp in Zambia dies of what appear to be a snake bite, Marieke Englebrecht has her suspicions and has her own theory as to the cause of death. She is asked by the Zambia Police, who she has worked with before, to assist in investigating the death and how a toxin may have been administered and then by whom. She has a slate of seven suspects, all of whom are well educated and probably quite capable of researching local toxins and methods that could be used to administer one. The suspects, all of whom are guests at the camp, are all due to leave in only two days, so it is a race against time to find something to hold them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is the early 20th Century and Federica Wheelwright, aided by her husband, George, has dreams and ambitions to be the first to create a commercial air service between London and Cape Town. Her dreams are interrupted by the Great War, but after the war she applies herself to the design and construction of a suitable plane. The race is on to get to the Cape first and there are several competing interests, will she be the first and will she be able to set up the commercial service in an era of considerable change in aviation not aided by a parsimonious British government who, unlike their European counterparts have taken the attitude that the fledgling airlines must sink or swim on their own.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is 1982 and James Martin has been given a new assignment by his employers, James & Brown, to join the management team of the newly acquired Waterford Industries. James and his wife, Katrina, relocate from Wisconsin to California and embark on their new adventure. James has to explain quite often that Waterford Industries has no connection at all to the famous Waterford of Ireland who make glass. It is instead a diverse company with interests in aerospace, access and marine, new industries to James who must learn much as he takes over the company. When things are going well, there is a change in the management of James & Brown and they wish to embark in a new direction that will involve divesting some of the peripheral businesses that are not the mainstream aerospace company, giving James new challenges.