BIMINI AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH - A True Tale of a Caribbean Adventure: Baba Indaba Children’s Stories - Issue 173

By Anon E. Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 173
In this 173rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the adventure story of Juan Ponce de Leon. In March 1512 he set forth from Porto Rico to seek the famed island of Bimini and its Fountain of Eternal Youth. He was more moved by the love of adventure more than by the search for juvenility. His search led him North until he landed on what he thought was the island and met and befriended people of the First Nation before setting off in search of the font..........……. Download and read this true story of adventure into the lands of the New World.

Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.

33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: May 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826083513

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Introduction

Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and