Author: Hermann von WissmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa
Author: Hermann von WissmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa
Author: Hermann von WissmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Equator
Author: Thurston ClarkePublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497676479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Widely considered a jewel of contemporary travel literature, Equator is Thurston Clarke’s magnificent, witty account of his solo journey along the earth’s torrid midsection—a grueling twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that spanned three years and as many continents. His was a perilous trek across an almost surreal landscape—where a first-class hotel appeared smack in the middle of a leper colony and a one-time Pacific island paradise stood as a hideous, bomb-blasted testament to nuclear folly. Along the way Clarke encountered the world’s heaviest rat, the earth’s highest volcano, and the king of a Micronesian island, wearing flip-flops and a novelty T-shirt. Throughout, Clarke’s unflagging sense of humor and wonder make Equator a classic of its kind.
Original Plays, Second Series
Author: W. S. GilbertPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Original Plays, Second Series" by W. S. Gilbert. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Catalogue of Valuable and Interesting Books
Author: Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel BleekPublisher: Daimon
ISBN: 385630603X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known people. As Megan Biesele writes in her Foreword: The fact that a family of trained linguists and their associates sat down between 1870 and 1884 with a group of /Xam people who had been temporarily sprung free of imprisonment in Cape Town's Breakwater Prison has immense potential consequences. San people today, like indigenous peoples all over the world, are quietly organizing educational futures for themselves which will make fine use of this record of the intellectual history of their culture. This edition reproduces the English text of the 1911 edition and is richly illustrated with photographs.
Abridged narrative of travels through the interior of South America from the shores of the Pacific Ocean to the coasts of Brazil and Guyana descending the river of Amazons
Author: Ch.M. de La CondaminePublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871009174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
The Historian's Heart of Darkness
Author: Mark D. LarabeePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness" has become a term commonly used to conjure an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now. Featuring the texts of both Heart of Darkness and Conrad's autobiographical Congo Diary along with more than 200 annotations, this book enables readers to appreciate the connections between Conrad's writing and its historical context. Introductory essays explain how Conrad was uniquely positioned to chronicle history, provide critical background information on how Europeans partitioned Africa and created the Congo Free State, and describe how the ivory and rubber trades brutalized the natives. Readers will learn how Conrad contributed to European awareness of the atrocities committed and understand how the story's literary qualities form an essential part of its historical meaning. The numerous illustrations and maps depicting the historical Congo Free State provide a visual element to the story of Heart of Darkness—a fictionalized tale that can be interpreted as history and that can help us interpret today's postcolonial, globalized world.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
A Journey to Ashango-Land, and Further Penetration Into Equatorial Africa
Author: Paul Belloni Du ChailluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description