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Wonders of the African World, Gates, Henry Louis Jr


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Автор: Gates, Henry Louis Jr
Название:  Wonders of the African World
Перевод названия: Чудеса африканского мира
ISBN: 9780375709487
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0375709487
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 275
Вес: 1.23 кг.
Дата издания: 2001
Язык: English
Размер: 26.11 x 26.16 x 1.98
Поставляется из: США
Описание: The Companion Volume to the PBS Television Series

Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations.

Traveling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and on foot, the renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., takes us to twelve countries in search of Africas magnificent past, the now neglected civilizations that in their day were as grand and sophisticated as any on the face of the earth. From Nubias ancient empire, which for a time ruled Egypt and centuries before had established the earliest known African city, to the fabled town of Timbuktu, where during the medieval period there thrived a center of scholars that rivaled any in Europe and where books were as prized as gold, to Ethiopias Christian kingdom, where the Lost Ark of the Covenant is said to reside under perpetual vigil, Gates reveals an Africa little known to Westerners. And as he shows us the achievements that exploiters of the continent have ignored or denied for centuries, he introduces us as well to the fascinating variety of modern-day Africans, many of whom are descended from the great peoples who built Africas most formidable cultures, including the Asante, the Swahili, the Tuareg, and the Shona.

As Gatess compelling narrative shows, the continents past continues to be felt in the lives of many Africans today. And in America for the descendants of those brought here as slaves, that past has been a controversial inheritance, passionately embraced by some, fiercely rejected by others. For this reason, Gatess deeply personal account of discovery is charged throughout by a question posed by Countee Cullen in his 1925 poem Heritage and perennially asked by African Americans: What is Africa to me? Finally, though, it is the wisdom of this book that the legacy of Africa, no less than that of Greece or Rome, belongs to all the worlds civilized peoples.

Illustrated with spectacular full-page photographs specially commissioned from the internationally acclaimed Lynn Davis, Wonders of the African World is Africa as we have never known or seen it before.

With 66 photographs by Lynn Davis, 132 illustrations in black-and-white and full color, and 7 full-color maps



The Classic Slave Narratives

Автор: Gates Jr. Henry
Название: The Classic Slave Narratives
ISBN: 0451532139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451532138
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Gates presents a seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including the 1749 texts of "The Life of Olaudah Equiano," the last edition corrected and published in his lifetime. The collection includes "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," as well as two narratives by women. This edition also features an updated Introduction by Gates. Revised reissue.


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