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Lisbon: City of the Sea is a beautifully written portrait of a much
loved city, from its origins in Greek legend to the present day.
Malcolm Jack vividly captures the rich and unique history of this
haunting and attractive port whose prominent position on the Tagus
estuary has inextricably bound its character with the sea. Lisbon
is a city of steep inclines and complicated, unsymmetrical streets
that criss-cross the hills only in the Baixa area near the river
and in the more modern, northern part of the city does any form of
a grid system appear. It has enjoyed a political history that has
directed Portugal's focus more overseas than inland towards
continental Europe, in part because of Spain's geographical
position. Thus the city has been stretched in one direction toward
Brazil and in another toward the Cape of Good Hope and from there
to Asia and the East. Beginning with its earliest inhabitants, Jack
traces the city's life through its imperial success in the
sixteenth century and the devastating earthquake that humbled the
city and shocked Europe in 1755 to its current position as a
vibrant and successful European capital. Lisbon's romantic
atmosphere has captured the imaginations of foreigners through the
ages. Poets, writers and musicians have all drawn inspiration from
different parts of Lisbon. This sensitive exploration of the city's
many aspects draws out its cosmopolitan nature, as well as its
colourful culture and self-image and brings us closer to
understanding its true spirit. Engaging and accessible, this book
will appeal to Lisbon's many visitors as well as anyone interested
in European history.
Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the
imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias
opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope
in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an
endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in
pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as
outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early
hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm
Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European
visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but
often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition
of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and
colonial background is key to understanding the development of the
vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich
diversity of the Cape hinterland.
The Farming Game is the agricultural management text for the
twenty-first century. The central theme underpinning this text is
that the farm management context is most usefully and reliably
managed by the application of economic ways of thinking. In this
text, the practice of farm management is approached in an
integrated way, leaving no significant issues about management
uncovered. Finance, investment, decision analysis, management,
economic thinking, growth, risk and marketing are critical and
exciting domains of interest that are brought together to give the
reader a thorough and comprehensive understanding of how the
farming situation is best analysed and managed. The text is
essential reading for those who seek to manage agricultural
businesses well and for those with interest throughout agricultural
supply chains who need to understand the character of farms as the
core of agribusiness systems.
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