What's new? - 29 March 2009

(previous update was 16 November 2008).

2009 feedback

2008 feedback updated with new emails since 16 November

(big pages, most recent at end).

Apologies for the big gap between updates - I've been busy with another project. Site is now updated with nearly 100 feedback emails from November 2008, to now, end March 2009.

I still need to reply to many of the emails, and forward some on to those request to make contact with others. Hope to do that in the next few days.

previous updates

Information about Northern Tanzania

a personal scrapbook

Digital Safaris specialises in providing web sites for Safari Companies. 'Digital Safaris' once lived in Arusha, in Northern Tanzania, and for some years has been reading and collecting any book which has mention of Northern Tanzania: this web site is the result. (more background).

Sources

Our source list is comprehensive:

" Browse " through the book covers.

Many books are now out of print, or can only be found in libraries or second hand book shops . The criteria for inclusion is that there should be at least one interesting reference to Northern Tanzania. Occasionally we let slip an entry just on the basis that it is just interesting!

Increasingly, relevant material is available on the Internet, and in newspapers. Where possible these are listed by authors name, but there are many anonymous pieces which will be found under the journal or web site in which they appeared. Because it is far easier to cut and paste items from the Internet, extracts here are more comprehensive than the book extracts, which are typed out by hand.

We take copies of internet material because we find that internet links and pages tend to come and go. But please, where we have provided the link to the original web page, do go and explore.

All our sources are classified, so you can easily find similar sources:

Extracts

Follow the icon on the source lists to see extracts selected to highlight the peoples and history of Northern Tanzania. The number by the icon (e.g. [4]) tell you how many extracts are provided.

Follow these links to explore some of the history of this area. The choice of extracts is eclectic, catholic, personal and incomplete. This is not an rigorous academic reference work, nor an on-line encyclopedia. When we started the collection we were not very vigorous at noting page numbers, or giving titles to the extracts. Material added more recently is better described, and slowly we will revise the rest.

Names

Each extract is indexed by name and date, so use the Names index to find all the extracts relating to one name. The indexing process is manual, and selective.

All the extracts for one name are collected on one page, with a greenish background. The extracts are labeled with the name of the book they come from, and clicking on that link will show the same extract, this time together with all the other extracts from that book.

Names are classified:

If you are after maps, look in Other > Maps
For meaning of place names, look in Place > Meaning

If you are going on safari, use the place index to see what has been written about the places you will visit.

Dates

Another index is the Date Index , which gives a vertical time line to the extracts.

Click the date, and you will see the extract in the book it comes from.
Click the names, and you will see the extract together with other extracts relating to the name.