Writing Tudor Exploration. Richard Eden and West Africa, Paperback - Matthew (University of Sussex) Dimmock

This Element closely examines Eden's assembly and framing of these accounts, engaging with issues of material culture, travel writing, new knowledg...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

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A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the six...

With erudition and wit, this title explores the medieval conviction that paradise existed in a precise although unreachable earthly location. Delvi...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

Reducere. Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudo...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Fe...

Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However,...

This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the great...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): A. G. (University of Cambridge) HopkinsIllustration(s): 17 Maps; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Tabl...

Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

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In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

Publisher: RCC Pilotage FoundationAuthor(s): Ed WheelerIllustration(s): 143 coloured illustrations & chartletsNumber of pages: 134Publication date:...

A collection of 20 tried and tested circular walks in West Sussex with plenty of opportunities for your dog to roam safely off lead.

Reducere. As a young man, the author unfolds his profound and vibrant reflections of his luminous, candid, and intensely personal account of living in rural ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Marie PanterIllustration(s): Black and white photosNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 13...

Reducere. The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage is the first attempt for over four hundred years to provide an authentic record of current English from t...

Reducere. A study of the Maroon Wars and the many slave rebellions and revolts in Jamaica. Richard Hart seeks to avoid polemics and emphasizes that the Jamai...

Reducere. Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

Reducere. Earth is Eden uses the meta-framework of Ken Wilber's Integral Theory to explore the Trans-Himalayan teachings. Integral Theory has been applied to...

Reducere. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him ...

Reducere. Africa has a way of luring you in, Scott Corey writes in the opening lines of Whistling for Hippos. It begins with a flash of dark eyes in the fire...

Reducere. Farm Seasons is a story about growing up on a small dairy farm in Waterford, CT in the middle of the 20th century. The author tells what life was l...

Reducere. American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of -winning- the West, Drinnon links r...

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s...

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

Compares the impact of the League of Nations mandates system on British and French rule in African mandated territories.

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean St...

Reducere. Hebrewisms of West Africa

The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, an...

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Reducere. About the AuthorMatthew Ferrence teaches creative writing at Allegheny College, where he lives and writes at the confluence of the Rust Belt and Ap...

Reducere. Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of A...

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The dynamic course of Afro-American literature from oppression through protest to liberation is depicted in the anthology. Long and Collier have ad...

Presents both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developi...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...