ELLIOTT, Lois Lawrence.

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Manuscript diary and field notebook of African travels. A compact African travel record kept during a 1967 journey through Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, combining professional visits to institutions for deaf education and treatment with lively safari notes from the Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Olduvai Gorge, and Lake Manyara.The diary records the professional and practical networks behind Lois Lawrence Elliott's work, with visits to hospitals, schools, physicians, and local contacts concerned with deaf and hard-of-hearing children. It also preserves the texture of the journey itself: flights through Dakar and Fort-Lamy to Accra, first impressions of Ghana, inserted business cards, notes on hotels and road travel, and later entries from East Africa. The business cards comprise Vasgen S. Bakalian of the Société Industrielle du Levant in Beirut and James M. Penith of the Argus Africa News Service in Nairobi.The safari sections are animated and observant. Elliott records game drives from Keekorok Lodge in the Masai Mara, the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, Olduvai Gorge, and Lake Manyara, noting lion tracks in the grass, giraffes by the road, hyena, vultures at a gazelle carcass, black ibis, and lions moving close to the vehicle. On one early-morning drive in the Masai Mara she describes three male lions in the grass, one limping and another "sniffing the air"; elsewhere she notes two lionesses near Olduvai Gorge.Elliott (1931-1995) was an American experimental ps

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