Author: Edward Powys MathersPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Zambesia, England's El Dorado in Africa ...
Author: Edward Powys MathersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Zambesia, England's El Dorado
Author: Edward P. MathersThe New Nature of Maps
Author: J. B. HarleyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Zambesia, England's El Dorado in Africa
Author: Edward Peter MathersPublisher:
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Category : Zambia
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Zambesia
Author: Edward P. MathersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British South Africa Company
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Death and Compassion
Author: Dan WyliePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776142209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary Elephants are in dire straits – again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion – or fail to do so – and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists’ accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
The Lost City of Solomon and Sheba
Author: Robin Brown-LowePublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752494902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In the heart of south-central Africa there are remains of monuments, ruined cities, temples, forts, irrigation terraces reminiscent of the classic civilizations of the Egyptians and Phoenicians. Yet despite having first been investigated by the Royal Geographical Society a century ago the Zimbabwe (stone courts) culture remains all but unknown to the world at large. This book reveals how the truth about the Zimbabwe culture has been radically influenced, indeed suppressed, throughout history by white and black political interests, struggling to redefine Zimbabwe's identity.
The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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