Letters to Africa

Publisher: UCLan PublishingAuthor(s): UCLanNumber of pages: 143Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 210 x 209 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective o...

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa...

DescriptionSelection of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's letters from prison in opposition to South African apartheid This book collates nearly 300 priso...

Reducere. A is for Africa and Z is for Zimbabwe, this African-inspired alphabet is sure to help children learn their letters and celebrate their African root...

Reducere. In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journal...

1959 was the year James Currey arrived in South Africa and found a nation in crisis. Hopes of change rose and foundered over the next five years. L...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter AbishAlphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high ...

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-...

The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarka...

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DescriptionMostly written while she was traveling, living and studying in Malaysia, South Africa and Yemen, Light Upon Light is a heartfelt and sin...

In this wide-ranging monograph, the achievements of Irma Stern, one of South Africa's most celebrated painters, are introduced to a contemporary au...

Reducere. John Newton (1725-1807), sailor, preacher and hymnwriter, was one of the most colourful figures in the great Evangelical Revival of the 18th Centur...

Reducere. During his travels as a missionary, David Livingstone beheld many previously unknown wonders of the African interior. He put Victoria Falls and Lak...

Augustinus (354430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a r...

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat...

Reducere. Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Bringi...

Reducere. Nathan Raab, America's preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts--questing after preciou...

Reducere. Thomas L. Johnson's remarkable life, wherein he was born into slavery before going on to a successful career as a minister and missionary, is told ...

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These ten girls all believed that God had given them given them special gifts, and they all put those talents to use. Helen used her skills as a do...

A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopher Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosop...

Reducere. DescriptionIn "Triangular Road, " famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of ...

DescriptionNothing goes wrong quite so dramatically as a disastrous military expedition.--from the Introduction ARROGANT ARMIES Spanning more than ...

Reducere. This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through R...

Reducere. In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct h...

DescriptionFrom marauding monkeys to strange men in her bedroom, from Africa to Australasia to America, with stops in Melanesia, the Caribbean and ...

Newly updated, revised edition. A complete missionary manual for evangelical missionaries. Missionary Methods is an enduring classic, a how-to that...

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Stunning three-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published, including syno...

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great...

Reducere. The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II First published in 194...

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Reducere. Women of all ages, races, and nations share their hopes, fears, desires, advice, and support with the new Vice President. As the first woman of col...

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'Ranks as a towering work of historical research and writing' - Nigel Jones, BBC History Magazine In the second volume of his acclaimed new history...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Reducere. Born about the year AD 200, Thascus Caecillius Cyprianus was the scion of an ancient and noble Roman family living in North Africa. A convert to Ch...