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Book Synopsis The Mark of the Salamander by : Justin Newland
Download or read book The Mark of the Salamander written by Justin Newland and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1575: Nelan Michaels is a young Flemish man fleeing religious persecution in the Spanish Netherlands. Settling in Mortlake outside London, he studies under Queen Elizabeth’s court astrologer, conjuring a bright future – until he’s wrongly accused of murder. Forced into the life of a fugitive, Nelan is dramatically pressed into the crew of the Golden Hind. Thrust into a strange new world on board Francis Drake’s vessel, Nelan sails the seas on a voyage to discover discovery itself. Encountering mutiny, ancient tribes and hoards of treasure, Nelan must explore and master his own mystical powers – including the Mark of the Salamander, the mysterious spirit of fire. The Mark of the Salamander is the first in The Island of Angels series: a two-book saga that tells the epic story and secret history of England’s coming of age during the Elizabethan era.
Book Synopsis The Hidden Thread by : Irina Filatova
Download or read book The Hidden Thread written by Irina Filatova and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidden Thread is a journey of revelation about the relationship between Soviet Russia and South Africa, hidden for most of its length. The story is told with insight and depth by Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson, who have had a decades long association researching and writing on Russian and South African politics and history. This insightful work follows the often surprising twists and turns of the history of South Africa's relationship with Russia and its people which started in the eighteenth century and is still very much alive today. The story evolves from the Russian volunteers who fought alongside the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War to South Africans who participated in the Russian revolution and civil war; from the Russian Jewish immigration to South Africa to the close involvement of the South African communists in the Communist International; from the Soviet consulates in South Africa and the activities of South Africa's Friends of the Soviet Union Society during the Second World War to the vicissitudes of the Cold War and the 'hot' war in Angola; from the SACP and ANC's relations with the USSR to the volte-face of perestroika and South Africa's transition and to today's business, political, cultural and sometimes criminal connections between Russians and South Africans.
Book Synopsis Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa by : Matthew Gavin Frank
Download or read book Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa written by Matthew Gavin Frank and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Unforgettable. . . . An outstanding adventure in its lyrical, utterly compelling, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately, he became intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling particularly, the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property, affixing diamonds to their feet, and sending them into the air. Entering Die Sperrgebiet (“The Forbidden Zone”) is like entering an eerie ghost town, but Frank is surprised by the number of people willing—even eager—to talk with him. Soon he meets Msizi, a young diamond digger, and his pigeon, Bartholomew, who helps him steal diamonds. It’s a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes. For this, Msizi blames “Mr. Lester,” an evil tall-tale figure of mythic proportions. From the mining towns of Alexander Bay and Port Nolloth, through the “halfway” desert, to Kleinzee’s shores littered with shipwrecks, Frank investigates a long overlooked story. Weaving interviews with local diamond miners who raise pigeons in secret with harrowing anecdotes from former heads of security, environmental managers, and vigilante pigeon hunters, Frank reveals how these feathered bandits became outlaws in every mining town. Interwoven throughout this obsessive quest are epic legends in which pigeons and diamonds intersect, such as that of Krishna’s famed diamond Koh-i-Noor, the Mountain of Light, and that of the Cherokee serpent Uktena. In these strange connections, where truth forever tangles with the lore of centuries past, Frank is able to contextualize the personal grief that sent him, with his wife Louisa in the passenger seat, on this enlightening journey across parched lands. Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa. With his sovereign prose and insatiable curiosity, Matthew Gavin Frank “reminds us that the world is a place of wonder if only we look” (Toby Muse).
Book Synopsis Old Salamander by : Phineas Camp Headley
Download or read book Old Salamander written by Phineas Camp Headley and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reading for Water by : Isabel Hofmeyr
Download or read book Reading for Water written by Isabel Hofmeyr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.
Download or read book The Salamander written by Owen Johnson and published by McLeod & Allen. This book was released on 1914 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities of an attractive young girl in New York.
Book Synopsis Lawrence Green: Memories of a Friendship by : John Wicht Yates-Benyon
Download or read book Lawrence Green: Memories of a Friendship written by John Wicht Yates-Benyon and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Almost Forgotten, Never Told by : Lawrence George Green
Download or read book Almost Forgotten, Never Told written by Lawrence George Green and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events by : Robert Headland
Download or read book Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events written by Robert Headland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lists Antarctic expeditions and related historical events from 700 BC to the time of publication in 1989.
Book Synopsis Churches of Derbyshire by : David Paul
Download or read book Churches of Derbyshire written by David Paul and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of Derbyshire’s historic churches, will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England.
Book Synopsis From Dias to Vorster by : Ruth E. Gordon
Download or read book From Dias to Vorster written by Ruth E. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cumulated Index to the Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Book Synopsis When the Journey's Over by : Lawrence George Green
Download or read book When the Journey's Over written by Lawrence George Green and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Forgotten Shipwrecks of the Western Cape by : Michael Walker
Download or read book Forgotten Shipwrecks of the Western Cape written by Michael Walker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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