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The Dictionary People - The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover): Sarah Ogilvie The Dictionary People - The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
Sarah Ogilvie
R777 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R139 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the project, as far as the letter T. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By the time it was finished in 1928 its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from archaeologists and astronomers to murderers, naturists, novelists, pornographers, queer couples, suffragists, vicars and vegetarians. Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. She traces the lives of thousands of contributors who defined the English language, from the eccentric autodidacts to the family groups who made word-collection their passion. With generosity and brio, Ogilvie reveals, for the first time, the full story of the making of one of the most famous books in the world - and celebrates to sparkling effect the extraordinary efforts of the Dictionary People.

James and John - The Last Men to Be Hanged for Being Gay (Hardcover): Chris Bryant James and John - The Last Men to Be Hanged for Being Gay (Hardcover)
Chris Bryant
R759 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R141 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime, and they well knew that for them there was no hope in this world. When Charles Dickens wrote these tragic lines he was penning fact, not fiction. He had visited the condemned cells at the infamous prison at Newgate, where seventeen men who had been sentenced to death were awaiting news of their pleas for mercy. Two men were particularly striking: James Pratt and John Smith, who had been convicted of homosexuality. Theirs was ‘an unnatural offence’, a crime so unmentionable it was never named. That was why they alone despaired and, as the turnkey told Dickens, why they alone were ‘dead men’. The 1830s ushered in great change in Britain. In a few short years the government swept away slavery, rotten boroughs, child labour, bribery and corruption in elections, the ban on trades unions and civil marriage. They also curtailed the ‘bloody code’ that treated 200 petty crimes as capital offences. Some thought the death penalty itself was wrong. There had not been a hanging at Newgate for two years; hundreds were reprieved. Yet when the King met with his ‘hanging’ Cabinet, they decided to reprieve all bar James and John. When the two men were led to the gallows, the crowd hissed and shouted. In this masterful work of history, Chris Bryant delves deep into the public archives, scouring poor law records, workhouse registers, prisoner calendars and private correspondence, meticulously recreates the lives of two men whose names are known to history – but whose story has been lost, until now.

Choices That Make or Break (Paperback): Gloria Godson Choices That Make or Break (Paperback)
Gloria Godson
R392 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Phobias and Manias - A History of the World in 99 Obsessions (Paperback, Main): Kate Summerscale The Book of Phobias and Manias - A History of the World in 99 Obsessions (Paperback, Main)
Kate Summerscale
R289 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R15 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL A WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK 2022 Plunge into this rich and surprising A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political. 'Fascinating ... Phobias and manias create a magical space between us and the world' Malcolm Gaskill, author of the No. 1 bestseller The Ruin of All Witches 'Fascinating' Observer 'An endlessly intriguing book ... All the bibliomanes (book nutters) I know will love it' Daily Mail

Writing Black Beauty - Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights (Hardcover): Celia Brayfield Writing Black Beauty - Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights (Hardcover)
Celia Brayfield
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Black Beauty is a novel that changed our world. Intended to ‘induce kindness’ in a Victorian audience who relied on horses for transport, travel and power, it remains a dearly loved children’s classic. Writing Black Beauty is the story of the remarkable woman who wrote this phenomenal book. Born in 1820 to a young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell grew up in poverty in London. She was 14 when she fell and injured her ankle, leaving her permanently disabled. Rejecting the limitations that Victorian society forced on disabled people, she developed an extraordinary empathy with horses, learning to ride side-saddle and drive a small carriage. Rebellious and independent-minded, Anna left the Quaker movement as a young woman but remained close friends with the women writers and abolitionists who had been empowered by its liberal principles. It was not until she became terminally ill, aged 51, that she wrote her own book. It was published in 1877, but Anna tragically died just five months later. After modest success in Britain, Black Beauty was taken up by American activist George Thorndike Angell, who made it one of the bestselling novels of all time. Using newly discovered archive material, Celia Brayfield shows how Anna Sewell developed the extraordinary resilience to rouse the conscience of Victorian Britain and make her mark upon the world.

Fatima Meer - Voices of Liberation (Paperback): Shireen Hassim Fatima Meer - Voices of Liberation (Paperback)
Shireen Hassim
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Fatima Meer, a South African academic, public intellectual, and activist, was a tireless fighter for social justice and human rights—for which she various suffered banning and detention by the apartheid government. After the end of apartheid, she declined a parliamentary seat, choosing instead to continue her advocacy work. She did, however, subsequently serve the ANC government in several capacities. She died in 2010, at the age of 81. In Fatima Meer, Shireen Hassim deftly weaves a narrative in which Meer's distinctive individuality unfolds. This serves as an apt context for the second part of the book, which presents Meer's ideas in her own voice and makes palpable her belief in a common humanity.

Empire, Incorporated - The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Hardcover): Philip J Stern Empire, Incorporated - The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Hardcover)
Philip J Stern
R960 R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Save R165 (17%) In Stock

“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.†—William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.

Die Keiser is Kaal (Afrikaans, Paperback): Dirk Hermann Die Keiser is Kaal (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Dirk Hermann
R48 Discovery Miles 480 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
The Secret Yoga of the Vikings - How Odin Was Lost (Paperback): Steven A Key The Secret Yoga of the Vikings - How Odin Was Lost (Paperback)
Steven A Key
R611 R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Save R94 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Seed Detective - Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables (Hardcover): Adam Alexander The Seed Detective - Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables (Hardcover)
Adam Alexander
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Radio 4's The Food Programme Book of the Year, chosen by Dan Saladino Longlisted for The Art of Eating Prize 2023 ‘If you’re a vegetable growing addict or just curious about their origins, there’s something for everyone in Adam’s new book.’ Rob Smith, TV presenter 'The writing is rich . . . [This book] is a clarion call to think about our food in new ways and carefully consider where it comes from.' New Scientist Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables on his quest to save our heritage produce. Have you ever wondered how everyday staples such as peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash and sweetcorn ended up on our plates? Well, so did Adam Alexander. Adam’s passion for heritage vegetables was ignited when he tasted an unusual, sweet and fiery pepper while on a filmmaking project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavour, he began to seek out local growers of old and near-forgotten varieties in a mission to bring home seeds to grow and share – saving them from being lost forever. In The Seed Detective, Adam tells of his far flung (and closer to home) seed-hunting adventures and reveals the stories behind many of our everyday vegetable heroes. How the common garden pea was domesticated from three wild species over 8,500 years ago, that the first carrots originated in Afghanistan (and were actually purple or red in colour), how Egyptian priests considered it a crime to look at a fava bean and that the Romans were fanatical about asparagus. Join The Seed Detective as he takes us on a journey that began when we left the life of hunter-gatherers to become farmers. Sharing storiesof globalisation, political intrigue, colonisation and serendipity, Adam shows us the vital part vegetables have played in our food story – and how they are the key to our future. ‘Informative, enlightening and entertaining but also important.’ Mark Diacono ‘One of the most inspirational books I have encountered.’ Darina Allen

Pathogenesis - How germs made history (Hardcover): Jonathan Kennedy Pathogenesis - How germs made history (Hardcover)
Jonathan Kennedy
R767 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R141 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week 'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times 'Full of amazing facts' Observer 'A humbling story for humankind' Spectator Challenges some of the greatest cliches about colonialism... A revelation' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Thrilling and eye-opening' LEWIS DARTNELL 'Science and history at its best' MARK HONIGSBAUM 'Unpicks everything we thought we knew... Mind blowing' CAL FLYN In this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam. How did an Indonesian volcano help cause the Black Death, setting Europe on the road to capitalism? How could 168 men extract the largest ransom in history from an opposing army of eighty thousand? And why did the Industrial Revolution lead to the birth of the modern welfare state? The latest science reveals that infectious diseases are not just something that happens to us, but a fundamental part of who we are. Indeed, the only reason humans don't lay eggs is that a virus long ago inserted itself into our DNA, and there are as many bacteria in your body as there are human cells. We have been thinking about the survival of the fittest all wrong: evolution is not simply about human strength and intelligence, but about how we live and thrive in a world dominated by microbes. By exploring the startling intimacy of our relationship with infectious diseases, Kennedy shows how they have been responsible for some of the seismic revolutions of the past 50,000 years. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story, revealing how the crisis of a pandemic can offer vital opportunities for change.

Serbia - A Modern History (Hardcover): Marko Attila Hoare Serbia - A Modern History (Hardcover)
Marko Attila Hoare
R1,764 Discovery Miles 17 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the Serbian state’s revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth century, under the rebel leaders Karađorđe Petrović and Miloš Obrenović; its turbulent history of wars, uprisings and dynastic rivalries; the triumph of Yugoslav unification in 1918; and the catastrophe of occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941. It shows how the birth of the modern nation-state involved the creation of a new elite–dynasty, army and bureaucracy–whose rule over the peasantry generated a popular resistance that would ultimately take form in Nikola Pašić’s mighty People’s Radical Party. The resulting struggle between elitist Westernisers and pro- Russian populists became entwined with the struggle for pan-Serb and Yugoslav liberation and unification. These causes came together with the Sarajevo assassination of 1914, which triggered the First World War. Existing histories of the Yugoslav kingdom that emerged from that war focus on the national conflict between Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Muslims and others, but Marko Attila Hoare challenges this narrative. He shows how the new kingdom’s politics continued to be dominated by the ongoing internal Serbian power struggle, bringing renewed disaster to Yugoslavia and its peoples.

Don't Forget 2004: - Advertising Secrets of an Impossible Election Victory (Paperback): Jayshree M Sundar Don't Forget 2004: - Advertising Secrets of an Impossible Election Victory (Paperback)
Jayshree M Sundar
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Cleopatra's Daughter - Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen (Paperback): Jane Draycott Cleopatra's Daughter - Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen (Paperback)
Jane Draycott
R403 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene. Princess, prisoner, African queen – and surviving daughter of Cleopatra VII. In 1895, archaeologists excavating a villa at Boscoreale, outside Pompeii, uncovered a spectacular hoard of high-quality Roman silverware. In the centre of one especially fine gilded dish was a bust of a female figure with thick curly hair, deep-set eyes, a slightly hooked nose and a strong jaw, sporting an elephant's scalp headdress. Modern scholars believe it likely that she represents Cleopatra Selene, one of three children born to Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the Roman triumvir Mark Antony. Using the Boscoreale discovery as her starting-point, Jane Draycott recreates the life and times of a remarkable woman – the sole member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive following her parents' defeat at the Battle of Actium. Unlike her siblings, who were either executed as threat to Rome's new ruler, Augustus, or simply forgotten, Cleopatra Selene not only survived but prospered. Brought up in the household of Octavia the Younger, Augustus' sister, she married a north African prince, Juba II of Numidia, and became co-ruler with him of the Roman client kingdom of Mauretania. Cleopatra Selene was a princess who became a prisoner; a prisoner who became a queen; an Egyptian who became Roman; and a woman who became a powerful ruler in her own right at a time when most women were marginalised. Her life shines new and revelatory light on Roman politics, society and culture in the early years of the Empire, on Roman perceptions of Egypt, and on the relationship between Rome and one of its most significant allied kingdoms.

The Handover - How We Gave Control Of Our Lives To Corporations, States And AIs (Hardcover): David Runciman The Handover - How We Gave Control Of Our Lives To Corporations, States And AIs (Hardcover)
David Runciman
R630 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R126 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before.

A few hundred years ago, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do, and which, unlike us, need never die.

They have made us richer, safer and healthier than would have seemed possible even a few generations ago - and they may yet destroy us. The Handover distils over three hundred years of thinking about how to live with artificial agency.

The Super-Afrikaners - Inside The Afrikaner Broederbond (Paperback, New Edition): Ivor Wilkins, Hans Strydom The Super-Afrikaners - Inside The Afrikaner Broederbond (Paperback, New Edition)
Ivor Wilkins, Hans Strydom; Introduction by Max du Preez 1
R370 R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Save R74 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond. Out of print for over three decades, this edition with an introduction by Max du Preez is available for a new generation.

Formed in Johannesburg in 1918 by a group of young Afrikaners disillusioned by their role as dispossessed people in their own country, the first triumph of this remarkable organisation was the fact that it was largely responsible for welding together dissident factions within Afrikanerdom and thereby ensuring the accession of the National Party to power in 1948. This highly organised clique of Super-Afrikaners, by sophisticated political intrigue, waged a remarkable campaign to harness political, social and economic forces in South Africa to its cause … and succeeded.

Political journalists Hans Strydom and Ivor Wilkins traced, at great personal risk, its development from the earliest days to the present. The book includes the most comprehensive list of Broeders ever published.

Normal Women (Hardcover): Philippa Gregory Normal Women (Hardcover)
Philippa Gregory
R721 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R143 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE’S WORK. Normal Women is a radical reframing of our nation’s story, told not with the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen, but through social and cultural transition, showing the agency, persistence, and effectiveness of women in society – from 1066 to modern times. Did women do nothing to shape our country’s culture and traditions during nine centuries of political turmoil, plague, famine, prosperity, religious reform? Philippa Gregory answers this question by telling stories of the soldiers, guild widows, highwaywomen, pirates, miners and ship owners, international traders, theatre runners, social campaigners and ‘female husbands’ who did much to build the fabric of our society and in ways as diverse and varied as the women themselves. This is not another book about heroines. Instead, it is a book about millions of women, not just three or four. The ‘normal women’ you meet in these pages rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their daily lives. They went to war, tilled the fields, campaigned, wrote and loved. They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many types of gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, this is a history not a call to action. It looks back at facts and the past lives of some 50% of the population without the judgmental eyes of the present. It cannot be a celebratory account about women’s ‘rise’ because women are not equal yet. But by highlighting the drive, ingenuity and vast contribution made, it puts women back where they belong in our history – centre stage.

London - The Great Transformation 1860–1920 (Hardcover): Philip Davies London - The Great Transformation 1860–1920 (Hardcover)
Philip Davies
R1,654 R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Save R336 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Kersten's Lists - A Saviour in the Depths of Hell (Hardcover): François Kersaudy Kersten's Lists - A Saviour in the Depths of Hell (Hardcover)
François Kersaudy
R766 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R140 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's personal physical therapist who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of thousands. Felix Kersten, an exceptional masseur, was the only person able to relieve Himmler's crippling and chronic abdominal pain. Although he was resolutely anti-Nazi, he continued to work for Himmler throughout the war, trading his services for that of prisoners' lives. François Kersaudy's meticulously researched Kersten's Lists, explores how by the end of the war, Felix Kersten had helped to obtain the liberation of some 100,000 people, including 60,000 Jews. It is a vital and too little known chapter of the Second World War and one worthy of greater recognition.

The Houghtons of Corning, New York - Five Generations of Brilliance (Hardcover): Thomas P. Dimitroff The Houghtons of Corning, New York - Five Generations of Brilliance (Hardcover)
Thomas P. Dimitroff
R1,221 R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Save R229 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
One Fine Day - Britain's Empire on the Brink (Hardcover): Matthew Parker One Fine Day - Britain's Empire on the Brink (Hardcover)
Matthew Parker
R745 R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Save R143 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland The story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before On Saturday 29 September 1923, the Palestine Mandate became law and the British Empire reached what would prove to be its maximum territorial extent, covering a scarcely credible quarter of the world's land mass, containing 460 million people. But the tide was beginning to turn. This book is a new way of looking at the British Empire. It immerses the reader in the contemporary moment, focusing on particular people and stories from that day, gleaned from newspapers, letters, diaries, official documents, magazines, films and novels: from a remote Pacific Island facing the removal of its entire soil, across Australia, Burma, India and Kenya to London and the West Indies. In some ways, the issues of a hundred years ago are with us still: debates around cultural and ethnic identity in a globalised world; how to manage multi-ethnic political entities; racism; the divisive co-opting of religion for political purposes; the dangers of ignorance. In others it is totally alien. What remains extraordinary is the Empire's ability to reveal the most compelling human stories. Never before has there been a book which contains such a wide spread of vivid experiences from both colonised and coloniser: from Pan-Africanists in West Africa to militant Buddhists in Burma; governors, policemen and nurses. 'An engrossing and wide-ranging account of the zenith of the British Empire - with all the contradictions, brittleness, ambition and hubris that moment entailed. Across Continents and characters, Matthew Parker provides a new, global history of British imperialism which feels both epic and immediate' Tristram Hunt

Sacred Nature - How we can recover our bond with the natural world (Paperback): Karen Armstrong Sacred Nature - How we can recover our bond with the natural world (Paperback)
Karen Armstrong
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe - we must rekindle our spiritual bond with the natural world. From gratitude and compassion to sacrifice and non-violence, Armstrong draws themes from the world's religious traditions to offer practical steps to reconnect you with nature. Speaking to anyone interested in our relationship with nature, worried about environmental destruction, or searching for new actions to save our planet, Sacred Nature will uncover the most profound connections between humans and the natural world. 'A lamentation in the key of Greta Thunberg, with undertones of Carl Jung' Wall Street Journal 'Warm and witty... a challenge to think differently in the face of climate change' Tablet 'Karen Armstrong is one of the handful of wise and supremely commentators on religion' Alain de Botton

Hard Soos Kameeldoringhout (Afrikaans, Paperback): Dora Bolz Hard Soos Kameeldoringhout (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Dora Bolz
R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die klein dorpie Aus aan die rand van die Namib, die oudste woestyn in die wereld, het 'n besonder romantiese geskiedenis. Wanneer die 85-jarige Dora Bolz terugkyk, tref dit haar hoe ingrypend dinge op alle vlakke verander het. In Hard soos kameeldoringhout vertel sy van die opwindende dinge wat sy self beleef het en die vroee geskiedenis soos sy dit uit navorsing in argiewe gerekonstrueer het. Amptelik is Aus in 1906 gestig en het dus in 2006 'n honderd jaar oud geword. Maar selfs voor sy amptelike stigting het Aus roemryke tye beleef. Deur die jare het verskeie pioniers se paaie deur Aus geloop - die beroemde handelaar Adolf Luderitz uit Bremen, die sendelinge Heinrich Schmelen en Heinrich Kreft en die Schutztruppe Ernst Raabe, Adam Bolz en Franz Izko. Die skrywer vertel ook van die onkreukbare Georg Klinghardt en die ontdekking van fabelagtige diamantrykdomme in die Sperrgebiet, die vestiging van die trekboere, die vroee dae van transportry en botsings met Namas onder Dawid Christian en Hendrik Witbooi. Gedurende die Eerste Wereldoorlog beleef Aus selfs veldslae en lugaanvalle en 'n groot krygsgevangenekamp word hier aangele. Na die oorlog word Deutsch-Sudwestafrika omskep in die mandaatgebied Suidwes-Afrika. Tydens die Tweede Wereldoorlog word byna die hele manlike bevolking van Aus geinterneer en Dora Bolz eindig haar vertelling met die uitwerking wat die gebeure op die dorpie het.

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback): W. E. B Du Bois Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
W. E. B Du Bois; Introduction by David Levering Lewis
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Always Another Country - A Memoir Of Exile And Home (Paperback): Sisonke Msimang Always Another Country - A Memoir Of Exile And Home (Paperback)
Sisonke Msimang
R250 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R50 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In her much anticipated memoir, Sisonke Msimang writes about her exile childhood in Zambia and Kenya, young adulthood and college years in North America, and returning to South Africa in the euphoric 1990s. She reflects candidly on her discontent and disappointment with present-day South Africa but also on her experiences of family, romance, and motherhood, with the novelist’s talent for character and pathos.

Militant young comrades dance off the pages of the 1970s Lusaka she invokes, and the heady and naive days of just-democratic South Africa in the 1990s are as vividly painted. Her memoir is at heart a chronicle of a coming-of-age, and while well-known South African political figures appear in these pages, it is an intimate story, a testament to family bonds and sisterhood.

Sisonke Msimang is one of the most assured and celebrated voices commenting on the South African present – often humorously; sometimes deeply movingly – and this book launches her to an even broader audience.

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