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In this tense chapter of the Landers' Niger expedition, every mile depends on diplomacy, rumor, and luck. As they press through Boossà, Kagogie, and the surrounding kingdoms, they search for the fate of Mungo Park, recover tantalizing traces of his effects, and confront the river's perilous course and the human cost of earlier exploration. Boossà emerges as a vivid world of fertile fields, fishing, wildlife, and a court ruled by a mild but absolute monarch whose fascination with coral, but...

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Richard and John Lander's expedition journal opens as both a personal record of hardship and a bold answer to one of geography's oldest riddles: the course and termination of the Niger, or Quorra. The authors present their notes as immediate, honest field observations, shaped by illness, heat, and the punishing demands of travel, while also defending exploration itself as a necessary struggle against distance, uncertainty, and imperfect knowledge. The book surveys centuries of speculation,...

This gripping volume of the Landers' celebrated expedition journal follows their hazardous descent of the Niger toward its lower reaches, from Zagozhi and Egga through Eboe, Brass Town, and beyond to the Atlantic world. Along the way, the explorers confront storm-tossed waters, crocodile-haunted banks, hippos in the dark, leaky canoes, and the constant need to bargain for paddles, boats, food, and safe passage. Their progress depends on uneasy negotiations with chiefs, canoe-men, traders, ...

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Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices.The brilliance of Kubernetes is how configurable and extensible the system is, from pluggable runtimes to storage integrations....

Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near presentForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction t...

I Pooped and It Was Amazing is a celebration of the feeling you get after taking a truly spectacular, bowel-cleansing dump. The kind that makes you feel five pounds lighter, energized, and ready to take on the world. Each page will give the reader a new reason to rejoice in this daily, universal bodily function.

Originally published in 1959, A Summary of Christian History has been a classic text for introductory-level studies of Christian history for more than four decades. Even in the face of advancing history, new findings, and changing perspectives, Dr. Baker’s original classic has remained popular decades beyond the normal life expectancy of a textbook.In this third edition, Dr. John Landers, a former student of Dr. Baker, builds on the original goal of helping students grasp ...

What if the greatest journey we ever take is the one that leads us back to ourselves?In a luminous exploration of awakening, healing and positive change, John-Michael Lander blends lyrical prose with profound insights drawn from his own life of transformation and the experiences of a fictional character, Soliel, to remind others that the truth of who we are—eternal, divine, and already home—lies beyond fear and illusions.Guided by Spirit, Soliel embarks on an otherworldly ody...