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  • Tales from the Cape of Storms: Folk Tales of the European Colonial Peoples of Southern Africa, from the Cape to the Zambezi

    Before the farms, before the forts, before the flags — there was the sea, and a giant at theend of the world.For five centuries the European peoples of Southern Africa — Portuguese sailors, Dutch andBoer farmers, British and German settlers, Scottish missionaries — filled the southern nightwith stories. Here they are gathered at last in one volume: twenty-three tales, faithfullyretold from the ... Leer más

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  • The Shape of the Country: A Novel of Paul Kruger

    The Stamvaders Novels

    Series series The Stamvaders Novels
    He was ten years old when his family's wagons crossed the Orange River into the wilderness, and eleven when he stood in the gun-smoke at Vegkop. At twenty he cut off his own thumb at a kitchen table. At seventy-five he left his country for the last time on a Dutch warship, and at seventy-eight he died in exile above a Swiss lake — still dictating, still praying, still President in the eyes of the ... Leer más

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  • Murder Afloat The true story of massacre aboard the brig, Carl

    Ships sailing the trading routes of the South Pacific in the 1800's mostly carried general merchandise. Other sailors sought fortunes gathering sandalwood and diving for pearls and pearl shell.But,in the latter half of the century a much more lucrative trade developed - the labour trade.Plantation owners in Australia and Fiji were desperate for a source of cheap labour. Their dreams were fulfilled ... Leer más

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  • Outposts

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    The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets." In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the ... Leer más

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  • Big Game Shooting - The Lion in South Africa

    de F. C. Selous ...
    Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was a British explorer, hunter and conservationist, and is most remembered for his activities in Southeast Africa. Selous explored lesser-known areas, where he recorded ethnographic notes and collected specimens. ‘Big Game Shooting’, published in 1894, is an anecdotal account that chronicles his experiences of hunting the lion in South Africa, and offers a ... Leer más

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  • My African Journey

    Winston Churchill (1874 –1965) was a prolific writer. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his numerous published works, especially his six-volume work The Second World War. At the ceremony he was awarded the prize "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".My African Journey was published ... Leer más

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  • Nine Faces Of Kenya

    In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first ... Leer más

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  • Wild Coast

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  • The African Adventurers

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    The Compelling True Story of Life at the Far Reaches of Civilization "E. Lucas Bridges provides in his brilliantly written book our most valuable resource on the lost heritage of the Yamana." The Daily Beagle Famous for being the southernmost city in the world, the wild and windswept port of Ushuaia sits at the inhospitable southern tip of Tierra del Fuego in South America. That rugged, rocky ... Leer más

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