Author: Chauncy Hugh StigandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Land of Zinj
Author: Chauncy Hugh StigandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A History of Swahili Prose, Part 1
Author: Jack Drake RollinsPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004068889
Category : Swahili literature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
An Azanian Trio
Author: James McL. RitchiePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004258604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This work consists of the translation and annotation of three East African Arabic / Swahili manuscripts together with the original texts. They cover aspects of the history of the coast from the early Himyaritic period up to the beginning of the 20th century. By the use of earlier, in some cases hitherto unused Arabic sources, the authors of the texts have contributed to a fuller picture of the East African coastal history. The texts relate directly to works on East African coastal history that have appeared since the latter part of the 19th century. They are presented against the background of general Arabic and Islamic history. The annotations indicate, and some case stress, significant hints and references to matters that need to be borne in mind, along with archeological and other evidences.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-KeltiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270441
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1611
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Literary World
Author: Wilfred Thesiger
Author: Alexander MaitlandPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590209958
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
“A perceptive and gripping biography” of the enigmatic British explorer, photographer, and author of Arabian Sands (Daily Mail, UK). Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, journeyed for sixty years to some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth, from the mountains of western Asia to the marshes of Iraq. The author of Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his own lifetime. Yet his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma. In this authorized biography—written with Thesiger’s support before he died in 2003 and with unique access to the rich Thesiger archive—Alexander Maitland investigates this fascinating figure’s family influences, his wartime experiences, his philosophy as a hunter and conservationist, his writing and photography, his friendships with Arabs and Africans amongst whom he lived, and his now-acknowledged homosexuality.
The Book of Duarte Barbosa, An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants
Author: Mansel Longworth DamesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317040171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
'Translated from the Portuguese Text First Published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the Seas', edited and annotated. With a translation of chapter 2, the history of Rander, from Narmashankar's 'Principal events of Surat'. Continued in Second Series 49. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1918. Owing to technical constraints part of Diego Ribero's Map of the World, 1529, known as the Second Borgian Map, is not included.
Moving the Maasai
Author: L. HughesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023024663X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This is the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, Hughes describes the intrigues surrounding two enforced moves and the 1913 lawsuit, while explaining why recent events have brought the story full circle.
Zanzibar
Author: W.H. IngramsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000101746
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This book provides a historical ethnography of the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It describes local legends, and their important social function in recording and constituting the oral history of the islands. The book also provides a detailed and lively account of the society in the islands.
Swahili Port Cities
Author: Sandy Prita MeierPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253019176
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing. Meier understands architecture as more than a way to remake local space. Rather, the architecture of this liminal zone was an expression of the desire of coastal inhabitants to belong to places beyond their homeports. Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others in the Indian Ocean world.