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Pawns in a Larger Game: Life on the Eastern Cape Frontier, Walker A. D. M.


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Автор: Walker A. D. M.
Название:  Pawns in a Larger Game: Life on the Eastern Cape Frontier
ISBN: 9780620556293
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0620556293
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 494
Вес: 0.68 кг.
Дата издания: 07.03.2013
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 156 x 25
Поставляется из: США
Описание: In the nineteenth century the Eastern Frontier of the Cape Colony was the stage on which a hundred years of conflict between Briton, Boer, and Xhosa was played out, fed by competition for land and mutual cultural incomprehension. The consequences of that conflict are still playing out in modern South Africa. Britains motive in establishing the British settlement of 1820 was to set up a buffer on the border between the Xhosa on the east of the Great Fish River, and the Colony on the west. The motive of those who braved the journey was to find a better life than that offered by Britain after the Napoleonic wars. This is the story of some of them, including: Robert Hart - The first British settler. Soldier. Pioneering farmer. Patriarch. Edward Driver - Smuggler. Daring elephant hunter. Trader. Guide to General Sir Harry Smith. Always close to trouble but emerging unscathed. The Thackwrays - Pioneers, traders and explorers. Father and two sons each died violently, trying to make better lives for their families. Joseph Walker - One of a group of merchants and entrepreneurs who made their fortunes on the frontier. John Forbes Cumming - Missionary. A man combining deep religious conviction with romantic dreams and great courage. They became joined by family ties. Their stories include tales of murder, gunfights, war, massacre, and unrequited love, and are interwoven with the historical narrative. The material is extensively researched using a wide range of primary sources. The protagonists influenced and were influenced by those they encountered. This also the story of all those people - Xhosa kings and commoners, Boer farmers and adventurers, South Africans to-be with different languages and cultures. The book epitomizes Carlyles observation: History is the essence of innumerable biographies. It is a gripping account of the history of the Eastern Cape Frontier as experienced by some who lived there.


Mortal Instruments 1: City of Bones

Автор: Clare Cassandra
Название: Mortal Instruments 1: City of Bones
ISBN: 1406362166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781406362169
Издательство: Walker Books
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Описание: First in Cassandra Clare`s internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series about the Shadowhunters.

The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits

Автор: Walker, Diana
Название: The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits
ISBN: 142620129X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781426201295
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: Features pictures of people who have achieved greatness in various walks of life - politics, entertainment, art, music, science, and literature - from heads of state to Hollywood celebrities to giants of industry. This book is organised into groupings of photographs, with the overall arrangement being both chronological and thematic.

The Age of Miracles: A Novel

Автор: Karen Thompson Walker
Название: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
ISBN: 0812982940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812982947
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1563.00 р.
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Описание:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
People O: The Oprah Magazine Financial Times Kansas City Star BookPage Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly Booklist

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is a luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

';Maybe everything that happened to me and to my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it.

I doubt it very much.'


Spellbinding, haunting, The Age of Miracles is a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time. On an ordinary Saturday, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer, gravity is affected, the birds, the tides, human behavior and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray.

In a world of danger and loss, Julia faces surprising developments in herself, and her personal worlddivisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by Hannah and other friends, the vulnerability of first love, a sense of isolation, and a rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking story of people finding ways to go on, in an ever-evolving world.

Praise for The Age of Miracles

';A stunner.'Justin Cronin

';A genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, with impressive fluency and flair.'Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

';Gripping drama . .

. flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's Emerald City.'The Denver Post

';If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end.'San Francisco Chronicle

';Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance.'Curtis Sittenfeld

Don't miss the exclusive conversation between Karen Thompson Walker and Karen Russell at the back of the book.



The Moviegoer

Автор: Percy, Walker
Название: The Moviegoer
ISBN: 0375701966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375701962
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1379.00 р.
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Color purple

Автор: Walker, Alice
Название: Color purple
ISBN: 0297858866 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780297858867
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 1972.00 р.
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Описание: The Pulitzer-Prize winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name

Between Males

Автор: Walker Fiona
Название: Between Males
ISBN: 0340682299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340682296
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 1668.00 р.
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Описание: When you Have It All except true love and cheekbones, you still want more

Spirit walker

Автор: Paver, Michelle
Название: Spirit walker
ISBN: 1842551132 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781842551134
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 1365.00 р.
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Описание: A boy. A wolf. A legend of all time. The second book in the internationally bestselling WOLF BROTHER (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) series by renowned author Michelle Paver.

Tongue in cheek

Автор: Walker Fiona
Название: Tongue in cheek
ISBN: 0340820764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340820766
Издательство: Hodder
Цена: 1061.00 р.
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Описание: From the very first day that they move to the Oddlode Valley, it's inevitable that young teacher Mo Stillitoe, recently separated socialite Diana Lampeter and cool, retired dressage diva Anke Brakespear will find their lives entangled. Despite their differing generations and backgrounds, the women are on a relocation collision course. As inept removal men deliver furniture - and even horses - to the wrong houses, other moves are being made ...Mo's bad boy lover takes Diana's eye, Anke's flirtatious husband immediately suggests Mo hop into bed with him - and Diana's local heart-throb brother comes joyfully face to face with the Danish ice-maiden he posted on his wall as a teenager.

As a long, hot Indian summer burns its embers into winter, the newcomers settle into their beautiful frost-hugged surroundings, generating enough heat to melt every heart in Oddlode. New passions ignite and old flames are fanned amid the honeyed villages, enchanted gardens, haunted parkland and raucous country social life. The heat is on, and sparks fly - but is this just a flash in the pan or is somebody fuelling the fire?

Love Hunt

Автор: Walker Fiona
Название: Love Hunt
ISBN: 0340820799 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340820797
Издательство: Hodder
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