Greetings from Jungleland is an unsentimental, entertaining memoir chronicling the quest of a young, privileged American who joins the Peace Corps to pursue his altruistic goals, dreams of adventure, and assimilation into another culture. Posted in the small, impoverished country of Togo, West Africa, Michael Fortner jumps with both feet into Togolese culture, community development work, and learning new languages, but quickly finds himself in over his head. He comes to rely on the hospitality and patience of the residents of Komlakope and his new circle of friends to guide him through various cultural, language, and development barriers. Michael's enlightening journey features bush taxis, mud huts, exotic foods, and a captivating cast of peasant farmers, village chiefs, public servants, voodoo priests, gun-toting gendarmes, expats, zealots, monkeys, Guinea worms, and goats -- all composing the magnificent pageantry of life that is uniquely Togolese, yet common to all.

Contains captioned, archival photographs that provide insights into the history of Thousand Oaks, California, focusing on the life of Louis Goebel and the origins of Jungleland, which Goebel began as an animal training center for Hollywood in 1926.

Kernowland 4 Pigleg's Revenge is the fourth book in the Kernowland in Erthwurld series by Jack Trelawny. Tizzie was in big trouble at the end of Book 3. Held captive on a pirate ship, The Revenger, she was sailing for Jungleland to become live bait for Big Red Grunter, the mutant wild boar that took Cap'n Pigleg's left leg. Louis was in Sandland, racing to rescue Tizzie with Akbar and Hans. The other rescuers, Princess Kea, Mr Sand, Clevercloggs, and Misty the little blue mouse, were just leaving Kernowland for Jungleland through the Crystal Door. Can the rescuers save Tizzie from the hungry boarmonsters in time... ?

Private investigator Blaine Stewart wakes to find a dead Wall Street stockbroker on her doorstep--a man who was on his way to hire her. Now she's finding the money world quite hazardous while tracking a murder through New York's financial canyons--as she's next on the killer's list!

Rolling Stone magazine recently released its list of the 100 greatest albums in rock music history, a period spanning more than fifty years. Nearly 60 percent of those albums were released in the decade from 1965 to 1975—the golden age of classic rock. This book is a wide-ranging portrait of that transformative and remarkable time, from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era to days before disco. This book is presented in a question-and-answer format, but it is hardly a “trivia” book. It covers such diverse topics as censorship, chart phenomena, album covers, rock groupies, manufactured bands, one-hit wonders, rock festivals, supergroups, novelty songs, and the Beatles. All of the major figures of the ‘60s and ‘70s are here: Cream, CCR, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Neil Young, the Eagles, the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, James Taylor, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Carly Simon, Laura Nyro, and many others. Exhaustively researched, So You Think You Know Rock and Roll? is filled with “I never knew that!” moments on every page.

Kernowland 5 Slavechildren is the fifth book in the Kernowland in Erthwurld series by Jack Trelawny. With a reward of five thousand evos on his head, Louis was snatched by Captain Pigleg in Jungleland at the end of Book 4. Here in Book 5, he'll be taken back to face the grizzly Guillotine of Sirap. Tizzie was caught in the armtentacles of a giant tree octopus, and the mutant monster was about to eat her with its sharp beak. Meanwhile, back in conquered Kernowland - which has been renamed 'Wonrekland' - Drym has a new 'pet', a fearsome wolfspider called Danglefang, and parents everywhere are agonising over Lister's Choice... which one of their precious children will they deliver into slavery?