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RIGHTS: BURMESE MIGRANTS IMPRESSED BY THAI POLITICAL FREEDOM
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RANONG, Thailand, Dec. 12 (IPS) -- Many Burmese toil in less
than ideal jobs in this south-western Thai province, but take heart
from the higher pay they get here compared to back home - and the
freer political atmosphere they dream of seeing there one day.
Although many Burmese migrant workers are exploited because of
their illegal status, they appear to be able to look beyond their
present difficulties - and hold visions of freedom and prosperity
for the country they have left behind.
"Prices will go down when our country gets democracy," says a
25-year old ...
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Hugh Clapperton into the Interior of Africa: Records of the Second Expedition, 1825-1827
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies
; Hugh Clapperton into the Interior of Africa: Records of the Second Expedition, 1825...illustrations. $53.00 /euro 53 paper. This new edition of the records of Hugh Clapperton's second expedition is intended as a reference work. It contains...
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Hugh Clapperton into the Interior of Africa: Records of the Second Expedition, 1825-1827 .(AFRICA, OCEANIA, ROMANI)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...062921 90-04-14155-3 Hugh Clapperton into the interior of Africa...second expedition, 1825-1827. Clapperton, Hugh. Ed. by Jamie Bruce Lockhart...2005 544 p. $59.00 (pa) Hugh Clapperton, a Scottish explorer and diplomat...
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DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS ROADS.(Review)
Magazine article from: African Business
; Hugh Clapperton's Travels in Sahara & Fezzan 1822-1825 [pounds]9.99...900209-06-3 Another unsung hero of early African exploration was Hugh Clapperton. He was one of the first European travellers to traverse the central...
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Exploring the blank spaces
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...in the Niger's flowing into Lake Chad, disproved by the servant of one of his proteges, the unfortunate Hugh Clapperton. Clapperton, on his second venture into the west African interior, died of dysentery in what is now northern Nigeria...
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Over the Rim of the World," to chapter twelve, "Clapperton Catches Up"--the reader leaves one adventurer...multiple strategies of reciprocal sabotage. When Captain Hugh Clapperton, one such rival in the "race for Timbuktu," died...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Desert storm; Exploring west Africa.(The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...entering Kano, now in northern Nigeria, Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton, an Englishman, found 12 miles of town-walls and...who got his just desserts in a mysterious death. Clapperton and his co-explorer, a lusty toff named Lieutenant...
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Travellers' tales from long ago Travel writers Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring have set up a publishing company so they can spend more time at home. EDWARD MARRIOTT drops in on them
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...books that are worth keeping in print for ever." * Sickle Moon's launch list: Difficult and Dangerous Roads, Hugh Clapperton's Travels in Sahara and Fezzan; Sultan in Oman by Jan Morris; Sweet Waters, an Istanbul thriller, by Harold...
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Images of Empire: Photographic sources for the British in the Sudan/The Practical Imperialist: Letters from a Danish Planter in German East Africa 1888-1906
Magazine article from: African Research & Documentation
; ...annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book was reviewed by Marion Wallace in ARD 99, 2005. The second reprinted records of Hugh Clapperton's expedition. Let us hope that there are many more to come, like these two volumes, to delight the eye and stimulate...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Exploring a short life.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...by far than others. Everyone knows of David Livingstone and Mungo Park. Fewer will be familiar with James Bruce, Hugh Clapperton, James Augustus Grant and Verney Lovett Cameron. Fewer still, I suspect, will even have heard of the subject of...
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...writer, who traveled much of the territory described, traces the race between British rivals Major A.G. Laing and Hugh Clapperton. Sources include Laing's letters to his fiancee. Illustrations include the explorers, early maps, local landscapes...
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