Out of Africa, Paperback - Karen Blixen

From the moment the author arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and r...

Reducere. Karen Blixen 978-973-689-814-3

Publisher: AdelphiAuthor(s): Karen BlixenPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 212 x 148 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lectu...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Frantz Leander HansenNumber of pages: 196Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 229 x 157 x 11Cover type: Pap...

Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness ...

Reducere. There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the everyday world as we know it. Suspended for a few se...

Reducere. The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway's memoir of his safari across the Serengeti--present...

This haunting and bestselling memoir of the author's life - and loss - in Africa has sold 250, 000 copies to date.

This extraordinary, candid account of James Kilgo's African sojourn conveys the untamed beauty of the bush country with the attention of a seasoned...

The definitive reference guide to all of Africa's venomous snakes, written by a team of internationally acclaimed herpetologists.

Reducere. A bold synthesis of the events that have dominated modern Africa in this historic era of nation-building and transformation.About the AuthorDavid B...

Reducere. When Jack Allison joined the Peace Corps in 1967, he never intended to write the number one hit song in Malawi or be described by Newsweek as more ...

Park's two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent's interior. A vivid re...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true acco...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed ...

Reducere. In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the grea...

Contributor(s): Author: Patrick Wanakuta BarazaWhile Africa is the continent on which human life began, it is also a continent that has been invade...

The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventu...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, one of the last books to come out...

Reveals the amazing story of a largely forgotten explorer and naturalist who forged his way into West Africa and its history. From his early life i...

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Abdourahman a. WaberiTranslator: David BallTranslator: Nicole BallIn a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedl...

In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes of a visionary, live through hair-raising adventure and personal sorrow, ...

Reducere. This historical and comparative ethnography of the Oromo of the Horn of Africa is based on the teachings of the custodians of the sacred knowledge ...

Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 4 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Eastern Africa, from the Sahel to...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Ashley CurrierNumber of pages: 272Collection: Social Movements, Protest and ContentionPublicatio...

Reducere. First published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings refl...

Reducere. Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adve...

Reducere. While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior--the matriarch lifted her foot and scann...

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