masai (african people)

Recounts the author's traditional childhood, adolescence, and coming into manhood in Maasailand and of his education in Europe and America.

Presents for the first time 300 ceremonial artifacts never before seen outside their Maasai villages.

Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai.

Given the gift of cattle by the gods, the Masai tribe must outwit the lions on the Serengeti Plain who also want the cattle.

Photographs and text describe the Maasai relationships, customs, and beliefs.

A child living in Nairobi describes the daily life, housing, agriculture, people, and parks of Kenya.

Text and photographs describe life in a Masai village in Tanzania.

In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Masai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.

Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.

Introduces students to the many ways the Maasai people have adapted to the climate of the eastern African grasslands where they live, describing the food they eat, the clothes they wear, their daily lives, and other related topics.