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Dear Mr.Reader,
Good morning, from Burlington, Vermont. Thoroughly enjoyed, Biography of the Continent of Africa, and have since recommended it to many. I see here on the website that you've written a book, Cities, which I'll have to look into further. But on to my subject heading.
I was wondering if there was a way to order copies of photographs from Biography. In particular, I'm interested in the photo of the lioness--wild energy out of the darkness surrounding her. I've long since given away my copy of the book so I can't say which page it's on, however, I'm sure you know the photo of which I write. Thanks for your time.
Miles Price
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Linke me with John Reader himself
Could you please link me with John Reader, author of Africa: Biography of a continent. He interviewed me in the course of writing the book when he came to Nigeria. A mention of me was made in the book. He did a good job. For this reason I would like to email him and keep in touch with him
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Laetoli photos
Dear Mr Reader,
I am preparing a class on tracking for a comunity college in the Southwest US, and would like your permission to use some of the Laetoli footprints as part of the course to give an example of the diverse uses for the art of tracking. If you could grant your permission for use of these photos (seen on the web), it would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
--Jon Boyd
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Laetoli foot prints
Dear Mr Reader,
I am preparing an exhibition at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen, and would like your permission to use your photo of the Laetoli footprints as part of the exhibition. If you could grant your permission for use of these photos (seen on the web), it would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Peter Vang Petersen
curator
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Truths and falsities
I happen to start reading your book about africa. i mean tghe biography. on page 4 in the prologue, you state that, "All the accepted markers of civilisation occured firts in non-African locales - metallurgy, agriculture, written language, the finding of cities." well i disagree with this statement because what is evident is tghat all of the above really began in Africa, among black Africans. the domestication of the fauna and flora and agriculture as a whole began in Africa than anywhere elese in the world. The use of metal or iron, the sciences and techonology began in Africa. Of course writing also began in Africa as well as the creation of cities. in my studies of various writers and scholars i have found out the following. there iks many more:
- Africans were the first to create a calendar in Ancient Egypt in 4245BC.
- There was steel smelting in Tanzania dating as far back as 1500BC.
- An astronomical observatory was found in Kenya dating 300BC.
- An African glider plane found in Egypt was found to be 2300 years old. When it was taken to NASA they looked at its aerodynamics and the scientists concluded that it fits modern day jets.
- The cultivation of crops by Africans in the Nile valley dated about 8000 years.
- Domesticated cattle were found in Kenya dating about 14 thousand years.
- A probe by microwave beams of an American radar satellite beneath the sands of the Sahara Desert revealed African cultures of 200 thousand years old.
- The domestic use of fire in Africa dated 1, 400,000 years old. This was one million years before fire was known in China. Europeans were eating their meat RAW by then.
- In 1978 anthropologist Prof. Peter Schmidt and Prof. Of Engineering Donald Avery of Brown University in the US announced to the world that between 1500 and 2000 years ago, Africans living on the western shores of Lake Victoria in present day Tanzania had produced carbon steel. The Africans did it in pre-heated forced draft fur
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Please share all your book sources.
I have many books and information with the same info.
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Photo: Cleaning the Laetoli trackway
Dear John,
Jeannette and I are doing a small educational book ("Akili's Ancestors") about evolution, mainly for Tanzanian students. We'd be interested in using one of your pics, showing two Tanzanians cleaning the Laetoli trackway, as used in "Disclosing the Past" by Mary Leakey. It won't be a high-end publication, small format and b/w. What would be your terms?
Best wishes
David Bygott
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Laetoli Photos
I would appreciate your permission to use some of your Laetoli footprint photos that appear on the web (and any others you might have) in a non-profit org focused on co-operation.
Thank you...Doug
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Bambuti People
Picked up Man on Earth as I have an interest in the Bambuti as one who shares their love of the Basenji Breed.
Surely you are aware of the relationship between the barkless breed and the success of the hunting parties and the integral part of hunting with nets...was the driving force of the Basenji which you made absolutely no mention of in this publication. Just wondering why you didn't mention the dogs and their relationship to the hunters?
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Laetoli Footprints
Dear Mr Reader,
I would be most grateful if you could give me permission to reproduce some of your photographs of the Laetoli Footprints. This would be for a book and website. I would, of course, be pleased to acknowledge the source.
Yours sincerely,
D.R. Statham
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Dear Mr. Reader
In an educational textbook in the dutch language only we would like to use 4 of your photo's, (A. boisei; Lucy; Laetoli footprints; and H. Neanderthalensis). Could you grant us permission to use them free of charge (like many others did). If not, what would be your conditions?
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Reference Article on John Reader
To Whom It May Concern,
We are publishing an article on John Reader in an upcoming volume of the reference publication: Current Biography International. I am seeking a high resolution photograph of him to run with the text. Thank you for your help.
All Best,
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DISCLAIMER from John Reader 5 Nov. 2007
PLEASE NOTE:
This site has been created without my approval or knowledge (until now).
Those requiring information regarding the use of my photographs should contact: www.sciencephoto.com, who handle such matters on my behalf.
Other enquiries may be addressed via my agents Peters Fraser & Dunlop at: www.pfd.co.uk
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Laetoli foot prints The Swedish Museum of Natural History
Hallo.
I would be happy tu use your picture of Fossilized Fotprints from Laetoli in our new exhebithion of human evolution. We would like to use the picture in a digital textdisplay, at our homepage and maybe in a small folder. We are a non profit gouvernment museum. Im happy to get in touch with you, (it was quite hard to find this address.)
Best regards Staffan Waerndt
Photographer Staffan Waerndt
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
Public deparment/Exhebitions
P.O. Box 50007
SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46(0)8-51 95 40 17
Mobile: +46(0)701 82 40 27
Fax: +46(0)8 51 95 51 00
staffan.waerndt@nrm.se
www.nrm.se
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Request for permission to use laetoli footprint photograph
Dear Mr Reader
I'm writing on behalf of a UK-based publisher. We're currently putting a book together and would like to make use of your laetoli footprint photograph. Please can you advise on how to request permission to use this?
Thanks!
Nicole
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Laetoli footprint image permission to use Natural History Museum
Dear Mr Reader,
I am preparing an article for the Natural History Museum website News section (www.nhm.ac.uk/news )about the recent report of threats to the Laetoli footprints.
I would be grateful if I could use your image on my article, quoting the full copyright information of course (I am afraid I do not have a budget to use images ).
I hope to put up the article in the next day or so.
regards
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Potato Famine...Actually
Dear Mr. Reader--
Actually, America's responsibility for the porato famine is more complicated--and sinister--than your Times article (3-17-08) reports. Ancestors of Dick Cheney were early settlers in central Mexico. In a primitive laboratory they bred the Phytophthora infestans, then released them into the prevailing winds, with full knowledge that the fungi would waft north to Canada and eventually to Belgium. Bush ancestors shorted grain, then went long. This conspiracy provided the seed money for the legendary Bush family fortune.
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Advice for a trip leader
Dear Mr. Reader,
I will be leading a cultural exchange this summer - taking high school teachers and students from Beaverton, Oregon to SW Uganda. This will be my second time going, though all other travelers will be traveling to Africa for the first time. I have read and highly recommended your book to them. I'm sure you're a very busy man, but I was so impressed by your book, and the breadth of your learning, that I had to try: I wonder if you would have any advice/ideas/suggestions/insights/recommended materials for this group. We are very diverse, both in age and ethnicity, and we are going to experience an incredible amount of amazing, unfamiliar and even inexplicable things. What should we know or keep in mind as we go on our trip? Thank you for writing "Africa", and I would be incredibly grateful for any response. Thank you...
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