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In Search of Ancient North Africa - A History in Six Lives (Paperback)
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In Search of Ancient North Africa - A History in Six Lives (Paperback)
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Loot Price R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
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For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa,
making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as
both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always
been a handful of stories he could not pin into neat, tidy
narratives; stories that were not distinctly good or bad, tragic or
pathetic, selfish or heroic, malicious or noble. This book, neither
a work of history nor travel writing, is a journey into the ruins
of a landscape to make sense of these stories through the lives of
five men and one woman. A sacrificial refugee (Queen Dido), a
prisoner-of-war who became a compliant tool of the Roman Empire
(King Juba), an unpromising provincial who, as Emperor, brought the
Empire to its dazzling apogee (Septimius Severus), an intellectual
careerist who became a bishop and a saint (St Augustine), the
greatest General the world has ever known (Hannibal), and the
Berber Cavalry General who eventually defeated him (Masinissa).
Though all six lives have been clouded with as much myth as fact,
the destinies of these North African figures remain highly relevant
today. Their descendants are faced with the same choices: Do you
stay pure to your own culture and fight against the power of the
West, or do you study and assimilate this other culture, and
utilise its skills? Will it greet you as an ally only to own you as
a slave? The chosen heroes of this book represent classical North
Africa, and not the familiar drum roll of Julius Caesar, Augustus,
Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine and Justinian. In between these life
stories, we explore ruins which tell their own tales and see the
multiple interconnections that bind the culture of this region with
the wider world, particularly the spiritual traditions of the
ancient Near East. With photographs by Don McCullin.
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