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Author : Wyndham Lewis
Publisher : Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journey Into Barbary written by Wyndham Lewis and published by Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and art by Wyndham Lewis.
Author : Wyndham Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722743
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Journey into Barbary written by Wyndham Lewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of a creative genius, Journey into Barbary is both an inimitable portrait of Morocco and one of the first truly modern accounts of a country that had for so long remained an enigma to generations of travellers. In the spring and summer of 1931, Wyndham Lewis travelled to the westernmost part of the Berber heartland in Morocco, known traditionally as 'Barbary'. Wanting to avoid what he called 'the Baedekered blight' of Anglo-American tourism, he set out for the majestic High Atlas mountains with pens and watercolours to record, in words and images, the rich traditional culture and changing face of the wild, isolated Berber tribes who carved a harsh life out of Morocco's remotest regions. The result is a blend of two arts, the literary skill of a detached and humorous observer, mixed with the drawings of one of the 20th century's most exciting and original artists.
Author : Mohamed Rakii
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (949 download)
Download or read book A Barbarous Gaze Into Barbary written by Mohamed Rakii and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wyndham Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140095609
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Journey Into Barbary written by Wyndham Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lahoucine Aammari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Wyndham Lewis's Encounter with Colonial Morocco in Journey Into Barbary written by Lahoucine Aammari and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Priscilla H. Roberts
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780934223980
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Thomas Barclay (1728-1793) written by Priscilla H. Roberts and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first-ever biography of Thomas Barclay, the first American consul to serve the United States abroad and the man who, in 1786, successfully negotiated our first treaty with an Arab, African, or Muslim nation. It is the story of an Ulster-born immigrant building his fortune as a Philadelphia merchant in international trade, then losing it as he gives priority to his adopted country's fight to gain and build on independence. It tells how, after emigrating to Philadelphia in the 1760s, Barclay became a leading member of the Irish community, a successful merchant/ship owner, and political activist. This biography follows his move to France with his wife and three small children when the Continental Congress named him consul in 1781. There, before an American consular service existed, before Congress knew a consul from a consul general, Thomas Barclay did whatever was needed, wherever it was needed. To shipping, naval, and other tasks, Congress added an audit of American public expenditures in Europe since 1776. Then Jefferson and Adams added diplomacy in Barbary, where Barclay negotiated a rare tribute-free treaty of commerce and amity with the Sultan of Morocco. His personal relationships with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson reveal as much about them as about him. On assignment for President Washington in 1793, he became the first American diplomat to die in a foreign country in the service of the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ólafur Egilsson
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0813228700
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson written by Ólafur Egilsson and published by Catholic University of America Press + ORM . This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, in this remarkable historical text. In summer 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens and abducting almost four hundred people to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was Lutheran minister Olafur Egilsson. Reverend Olafur—born in the same year as William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei—wrote The Travels to chronicle his experiences both as a captive and as a traveler across Europe as he journeyed alone from Algiers to Copenhagen in an attempt to raise funds to ransom the Icelandic captives that remained behind. He was a keen observer, and the narrative is filled with a wealth of detail―social, political, economic, religious―about both the Maghreb and Europe. It is also a moving story on the human level: We witness a man enduring great personal tragedy and struggling to reconcile such calamity with his understanding of God. The Travels is the first-ever English translation of the Icelandic text. Until now, the corsair raid on Iceland has remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. To give a clearer sense of the extraordinary events connected with that raid, this edition of The Travels includes not only Reverend Olafur’s first-person narrative but also a collection of contemporary letters describing both the events of the raid itself and the conditions under which the enslaved Icelanders lived. Also included are appendices containing background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book’s early modern European context.
Author : Edward Rae
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260673039
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Country of the Moors written by Edward Rae and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Country of the Moors: A Journey From Tripoli in Barbary to the City of Kairwân I AM led to hope that you will feel a cer tain interest in the subject which is my excuse for trying your patience again. I have endeavoured to sketch the existing state of a portion of the country of the Moors, the race to me the most interesting of all - Which shed the light of civilisation on the Dark Ages of Europe. These notes are the result of two journeys into the region where the remnant of the Moors have their present abodes. I cannot h0pe, save per haps in the case of the city of Kairwan, to convey much original or novel information. A peasant once presented himself at the Third Section, or Secret Police Department, in 'st. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edward Alexander Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In Barbary written by Edward Alexander Powell and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents narratives of the author's adventures and travels in North Africa in late 19th century and early 20th century.
Author : R. E. Stearns
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481476866
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Barbary Station written by R. E. Stearns and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew—and survive long enough to enjoy it. Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but aren’t able to find any work in a solar system ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony ship and plan to join a famed pirate crew living in luxury at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space. But when they arrive there, nothing is as expected. The pirates aren’t living in luxury—they’re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station’s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station’s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents and shooting down any ship that attempts to leave—so there’s no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the AI met an untimely end, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds. There’s a glorious future in piracy…if only they can survive long enough.
Author : Daniel Bacon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964680456
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail written by Daniel Bacon and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the Barbary Coast Trail, San Francisco's official historical walk.
Author : Marq De Villiers
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9780753804605
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Into Africa written by Marq De Villiers and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant picture of a rich, exotic, complex and fascinating continent in the style of Bruce Chatwin. Verbal snapshots, images, anecdotes, legends, tales, gossip, illustrations, photographs, art and maps lend insight and depth to this multi-layered portrait of a continent. Into Africa uses the ancient empires and trading patterns of prehistory as the primary framework, to explain how Africa was and is today. The book does not ignore the calamities, the collapse of civil authority, the wars, the famines, the human misery, the environmental degradation. But it does record the triumphs, small and large. More important, Into Africa goes beyond politics and tourism, into history and legend, art and culture, both popular and profound.
Author : Brian Kilmeade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143131834
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates written by Brian Kilmeade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute far beyond what the new country could afford. Jefferson found it impossible to negotiate with the leaders of the Barbary states, who believed their religion justified the plunder and enslavement of non-Muslims. These rogue states would show no mercy, so President Jefferson decided to move beyond diplomacy. He sent the U.S. Navy's new warships and a detachment of Marines to blockade Tripoli--launching the Barbary Wars and beginning America's journey toward future superpower status. As they did in George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade and Yaeger have transformed a nearly forgotten slice of history into a dramatic story that will keep you turning the pages to find out what happens next. Among the many suspenseful episodes: · Lieutenant Andrew Sterett's ferocious cannon battle on the high seas against the treacherous pirate ship Tripoli. · Lieutenant Stephen Decatur's daring night raid of an enemy harbor, with the aim of destroying an American ship that had fallen into the pirates' hands. · General William Eaton's 500-mile march from Egypt to the port of Derne, where the Marines launched a surprise attack and an American flag was raised in victory on foreign soil for the first time.
Author : Barbary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Leaves from a lady's diary of her travels in Barbary written by Barbary and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tessa West
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 190816204X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Curious Mr Howard written by Tessa West and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Howards immense achievements and his fascinating life and sheds new light on what drove the UKs most famous prison reformer. A key work in social and penal history. In modern times John Howard (1726-1790) is perhaps best known as the man after whom the UKs oldest penal reform charity, the Howard League, is named. Tessa Wests book breaks fresh ground by looking at both Howards legacy in terms of reform as well as his fascinating character. Based on extensive research in the UK and abroad, it provides a vivid picture of his lifes work which will be invaluable in understanding why prisons and imprisonment demand constant scrutiny. John Howards curiosity about prisons goes without saying, as his own writings show, including his iconic The State of the Prisons (to use the shortened title). As a self-appointed inspector of prisons and the first to carry out such a task Howard would knock on the door of penal establishments, mostly unannounced. Once inside he would observe, listen and make copious records of events and conditions behind prison walls. And he was a curious individual altogether. Amongst the diverse epithets applied to him are: extraordinary, indefatigable, eccentric, benevolent, solid, selfless, charismatic, intense, obsessive, energetic, modest and above all singular. Forever concerned with minutiae, not without friends but lacking close social contacts, the workaholic Howard frequently travelled alone and in dangerous places for months on end. Always restless and forever retracing his steps, he was equally at home in Russia, Germany, Holland and other foreign parts as he was pursuing his carefully planned routines in places such as Bedford, Warrington, Cambridge or London. Wherever he went the perfectionist John Howard brought his influence, genius and reputation to bear seeking to improve prisons and other institutions and as this book shows he deserves to be remembered as a far greater figure in social history than many people might suspect. 'One of the most extraordinary men this age can show': Jeremy Bentham. 'One of the greatest men in Europe': John Wesley.
Author : Michigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Joint Documents of the State of Michigan written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michigan. Legislature. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Documents Accompanying the Journal of the Senate, of the State of Michigan written by Michigan. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
