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    Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
    Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Mbuti Includes ancient descriptions of pygmies and theories about their evolution. "[T]heir eyes had an untameable wildness about them that struck me as very remarkable." (French-American explorer Paul du Chaillu, 1867) The indigenous Africans known as pygmies have interested outsiders for thousands of years. In the 2200s BC, the Egyptian pharaoh Pepi II referred to one as a "dancing dwarf of the god from the land of spirits", and the Ancient Greeks were also familiar with them. Homer makes mention of pygmies in The Iliad, and Herodotus recounted the experiences of a Persian explorer who encountered "dwarfish people, who used clothing made from the palm tree", on the western coast of Africa. In fact the term pygmy comes from the Greek word for "dwarfish". Not surprisingly, foreigners' interest in pygmies has never waned. When medieval Europeans first traveled to Africa and parts of Asia, many of them were stunned when they encountered people who were considerably smaller than the average height. Perhaps the most famous account comes from the legendary Marco Polo, who was so confused about the people known as pygmies that he refused to believe they were actually human. In his famous account, Marco Polo wrote about seeing some of them in Indonesia, "I may tell you moreover that when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from India, 'tis all a lie and a cheat...for nowhere in India nor anywhere else in the world were there ever men seen so small as these pretended pygmies." Marco Polo believed that the pygmies were actually monkeys that people manipulated and shaved to resemble smaller people. Today, of course, anthropologists know a lot more about the pygmies, a collective of indigenous groups in Africa who are still defined by the fact that they have an average height of less than five feet tall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary D. MacFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038640/bk_acx0_038640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Life Among The Pygmies Of The Ituri Forest Congo Free State (1905)
    Life Among The Pygmies Of The Ituri Forest Congo Free State (1905) ab 22.99 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Tanglewood Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
    Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken some of the most striking and exciting Greek legends and adapted them for young readers. In this retelling, Hawthorne maintains the conceptions held by the original authors. This collection includes "The Minotaur", "The Pygmies", "The Dragon's Teeth", "Circe's Palace", "The Pomegranate Seeds", and "The Golden Fleece". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/jimc/000221/bk_jimc_000221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle: Daring Adventures on Elephant Island: Tom Swift, Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 257min
    Volume 10 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero building a new airship and taking it to Africa, where he hunts elephants with his new electric rifle and rescues two missionaries from a savage and crafty tribe of red pygmies. Please remember that this book was published in 1911, and attitudes and language acceptable at that time are not politically correct today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Michaels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/000054/bk_mike_000054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Song from the Forest
    Song from the Forest ab 14.99 € als epub eBook: My Life among the Pygmies. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Religion,
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    Prometheus Rising , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 496min
    Prometheus Rising describes the landscape of human evolution and offers the listener an opportunity to become a conscious participant. In an astoundingly useful road map infused with humor and startling insight, Robert Anton Wilson presents the "Eight Circuits of the Brain" model as an essential guide in the effort to break free of imprinted and programmed behavior. Bob states, "We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. Unleashing our full stature - our total brain power - is what this book is all about.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235662/bk_acx0_235662_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    African Pearls and Poisons
    African Pearls and Poisons ab 34.49 € als Taschenbuch: IDI Amin's Uganda; Kenya; Zaire's Pygmies. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,
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    Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin
    Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin ab 47.99 € als pdf eBook: Cultures Histories and Biology of African Pygmies. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin
    Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin ab 46.49 € als epub eBook: Cultures Histories and Biology of African Pygmies. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Attack of the Automatons: Book Three: Airship Adventure Chronicles (Volume 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min
    The adventure continues as Lady Arabella, Rett and friends chase after the evil Dr. Krakov in hopes they can stop his attack on Aereopolis. Faced with albino cannibal pygmies, snow monsters and angry mountain men, while fighting devastating storms against impossible odds, they are forced to use every possible resource to stay alive. Krakov escapes all attempts to thwart him and rains his deadly automatons on the capital city in a conflagration that will spread to the entire world. Belle and Rett must put their feelings for each other on hold while they face the evil doctor in a final showdown for the fate of all mankind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: The Killion Group. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008781/bk_acx0_008781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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