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Delight is the slightly rumpled, bow-tied McCall Smith's operative mode. His books--The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men--which detail the quiet and quirky adventures of Botswanan sleuth Mma (pronounced Ma, the most correct way of addressing women in Botswana) Ramotswe, have become international word-of-mouth hits, sold millions and been translated into 26 languages, partly because of their sheer cheerfulness...
...operate in 14 states, and a dozen more are under construction. The craze began in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., in the mid-'90s. Once a summer hot spot, the Dells (located off I90/94) now attracts winter tourists to its 18 indoor water-park resorts. Opened in 2000, the African-themed Kalahari Resort's indoor park doubled in size last year with such rides as the Botswana Blast, a 570-ft. uphill water roller coaster. Nearby, the Wild West-themed Wilderness Resort added a third indoor water park this year. Among the latest parks are the North Woods--inspired Great Wolf Lodge...
...Zimbabwe-born Scot says. "Rather rude." Quite right, say his fans, who this week will welcome the opening of The Full Cupboard of Life (Polygon; 202 pages), the fifth Ramotswe book. Its predecessors - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men - have become word-of-mouth hits not only in Britain but also in the U.S., where all are currently on major best-seller lists. Already available in five languages, the books are being...
...Ma’s most famous projects is an extension of an anthropology course that he took his freshman year with Professor Irven DeVore. Fascinated by DeVore’s lectures about the Bushmen of Africa, in the late 1980s, Ma traveled to the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa to study and perform music with them...
...First of the new mergers was that of South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana's Gemsbok National Park to create the Kgalagadi - meaning "land of thirst" - a 38,000-sq-km wilderness in which tourists and animals can move freely across the two countries' borders. Since the park's formal opening last May, tourist traffic has increased threefold to around 150,000 visitors a year. A Peace Parks Club offers tours that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced San, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...