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Book Synopsis Lovely Beyond Any Singing by : Helen Moffett
Download or read book Lovely Beyond Any Singing written by Helen Moffett and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the stuff of cliche to describe South Africa as a land of infinite landscapes and dramatic contrasts. It's even harder to capture those landscapes in words. This book encompasses the kaleidoscope of our local scribes - from drama to poetry, from revered names to controversial voices, from journalism to meditations."
Book Synopsis Cry, the Beloved Country by : Alan Paton
Download or read book Cry, the Beloved Country written by Alan Paton and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1953 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Love Beyond Death by : Rudolph Binion
Download or read book Love Beyond Death written by Rudolph Binion and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies a trend in 19th-century art and literature that reconciled love and death; demonstrates how it constituted a break from ideas in the premodern era, and surveys some of its modern manifestations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Hamish's Mountain Walk by : Hamish Brown
Download or read book Hamish's Mountain Walk written by Hamish Brown and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamish Brown's account of his epic walk has been the inspiration for generations of hillwalkers. Sandstone Press is proud to present, not a mere reprint, but a complete reimagining of the book in a modern font, with a new introduction and appendix, and a new, extended colour plate section all provided by Hamish Brown. This will be a book that every lover of the Scottish hills, and everyone who has been touched by the spirit of the outdoors will want to read and reread
Download or read book A Singing Faith written by and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Singing Faithis a book of inspiring hymns composed by renowned hymn writter Jane Parker Huber. It includes an introduction in which Huber discusses her songwriting process, commentaries on the hymns, and a topical index.
Book Synopsis South Africa and Its People by : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Download or read book South Africa and Its People written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at South Africa and its people including all the racial and ethnic groups in all the provinces and their different cultures. It's also a general historical background of South Africa since the founding of the country. Also the country's natural resources in every province is one of the subjects covered in the book. African immigrants in South Africa, a relatively new group in the country especially since the end of apartheid, is another subject addressed by the author. And there's much more that's covered in this work.
Book Synopsis Cry, the Beloved Country by : Alan Paton
Download or read book Cry, the Beloved Country written by Alan Paton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.” Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.
Book Synopsis Every Step of the Way by : Michael Morris
Download or read book Every Step of the Way written by Michael Morris and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Step of the Way celebrates the tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election but also seeks to widen and promote a conversation about South Africa's contested pasts.
Book Synopsis Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of interpretations of Alan Paton's novel, Cry, the beloved country.
Download or read book Finucane & Me written by John Clarke and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died suddenly, aged 69, in January 2020. But John Clarke, Marian's widower, doesn't use her moniker – instead, he calls her 'Finucane'. It highlights the gap between the woman so many felt they knew and the woman he loved – the real Marian – who was by turns curious, fiery, emotional, stubborn, charming and endlessly excited by life. When John and Marian first got together, they promised each other that they'd never be boring. What ensued was forty years of conversation and thousands of miles travelled. Finucane & Me is an unexpected love story: the story of two people who 'made a pact for madness'; the story of a never-ending search for meaning; the story of two people who lived life to its fullest.
Book Synopsis Long Shadows in Cyprus by : M.J.W. Clark
Download or read book Long Shadows in Cyprus written by M.J.W. Clark and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine if your childhood haunts were sealed off like an ancient tomb… M.J.W. Clark arrived in Cyprus as an eight-year-old in the summer of 1970 and lived there for two thrilling years. The Cold War was entrenched, hippy lifestyles were running out of steam, it was the era of the tie-dye T shirt, the Chopper bike and coke adverts ‘Teaching the World to Sing…’ In the summer of 2018, the author returned to the island to walk The Green Line, the land trapped in the United Nation’s no-man’s land that divides it. Lying under half a century of almost sacred dust it is a 1970s world begging to be explored. Crossing into Northern and Southern Cyprus several times and taking the reader far from the tourist hordes, he undertakes a trek through deserted villages, quiet trails, silent woods and dry ravines. It’s a journey back through time and a discovery of how place and time affect who we become.
Book Synopsis The Plot to Save South Africa by : Justice Malala
Download or read book The Plot to Save South Africa written by Justice Malala and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Superbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that time’ Financial Times 'Gripping and important' Observer __________________________________________________________________________ Nine days that set the course of a nation... Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots Mandela’s popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? Or can Mandela and de Klerk overcome their differences and mutual suspicion and calm their followers, plotting a way forward? In The Plot to Save South Africa, acclaimed South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the riveting story of the next nine days – never before told in full – revealing rarely seen sides of both Mandela and de Klerk, the fascinating behind-the-scenes debates within each of their parties over whether to pursue peace or war, and their increasingly desperate attempts to restrain their supporters despite mounting popular frustrations. Flitting between the points of view of over a dozen characters on all sides of the conflict, Justice Malala offers an illuminating look at successful leadership in action… and a terrifying reminder of just how close a country we think of today as a model for racial reconciliation came to civil war. __________________________________________________________________________ ‘A dramatic work of history, prodigiously reported and beautifully crafted. Justice Malala is a first-rate storyteller, deftly weaving history with a narrative that reads like a novel. I couldn’t put it down’ Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Ali: A Life ‘Magnificent, furious and unputdownable’ Andrew Harding, BBC Africa correspondent and author of These Are Not Gentle People
Download or read book This Living Hand written by Edmund Morris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They cover forty years in the life of a maverick intellectual who can be, at whim, astonishingly provocative, self-mockingly funny, and richly anecdotal. (The title essay, a tribute to Reagan in cognitive decline, is poignant in the extreme.) Whether Morris is analyzing images of Barack Obama or the prose style of President Clinton, or exploring the riches of the New York Public Library Dance Collection, or interviewing the novelist Nadine Gordimer, or proposing a hilarious “Diet for the Musically Obese,” a continuous cross-fertilization is going on in his mind. It mixes the cultural pollens of Africa, Britain, and the United States, and propogates hybrid flowers—some fragrant, some strange, some a shock to conventional sensibilities. Repeatedly in This Living Hand, Morris celebrates the physicality of artistic labor, and laments the glass screen that today’s e-devices interpose between inspiration and execution. No presidential biographer has ever had so literary a “take” on his subjects: he discerns powers of poetic perception even in the obsessively scientific Edison. Nor do most writers on music have the verbal facility to articulate, as Morris does, what it is about certain sounds that soothe the savage breast. His essay on the pathology of Beethoven’s deafness breaks new ground in suggesting that tinnitus may explain some of the weird aural effects in that composer’s works. Masterly monographs on the art of biography, South Africa in the last days of apartheid, the romance of the piano, and the role of imagination in nonfiction are juxtaposed with enchanting, almost unclassifiable pieces such as “The Bumstitch: Lament for a Forgotten Fruit” (Morris suspects it may have grown in the Garden of Eden); “The Anticapitalist Conspiracy: A Warning” (an assault on The Chicago Manual of Style); “Nuages Gris: Colors in Music, Literature, and Art”; and the uproarious “Which Way Does Sir Dress?”, about ordering a suit from the most expensive tailor in London. Uniquely illustrated with images that the author describes as indispensable to his creative process, This Living Hand is packed with biographical insights into such famous personalities as Daniel Defoe, Henry Adams, Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, Truman Capote, Glenn Gould, Jasper Johns, W. G. Sebald, and Winnie the Pooh—not to mention a gallery of forgotten figures whom Morris lovingly restores to “life.” Among these are the pianist Ferruccio Busoni, the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, the novelist James Gould Cozzens, and sixteen so-called “Undistinguished Americans,” contributors to an anthology of anonymous memoirs published in 1902. Reviewing that book for The New Yorker, Morris notes that even the most unlettered persons have, on occasion, “power to send forth surprise flashes, illuminating not only the dark around them but also more sophisticated shadows—for example, those cast by public figures who will not admit to private failings, or by philosophers too cerebral to state a plain truth.” The author of This Living Hand is not an ordinary person, but he too sends forth surprise flashes, never more dazzlingly than in his final essay, “The Ivo Pogorelich of Presidential Biography.”
Book Synopsis Preaching for these People by : Andrew McLellan
Download or read book Preaching for these People written by Andrew McLellan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of sermons which reflect the central challenges faced by Christians struggling to live out the faith in the closing years of the 20th century. The sermons collected were originally preached for a particular congregation, in the Church of St Andrew and St George, Edinburgh.
Book Synopsis Experiments with Truth by : Hedley Twidle
Download or read book Experiments with Truth written by Hedley Twidle and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition.
Book Synopsis Takka Takka Bom Bom by : Al J. Venter
Download or read book Takka Takka Bom Bom written by Al J. Venter and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter, has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. In this memoir, Venter masterfully recounts his experiences, sharing the real stories behind the headlines and the sharp lessons he learned that enabled him to survive his countless exploits, ranging from exposing a major KGB operative in Rhodesia entirely by accident, and accompanying an Israeli force led by Ariel Sharon into Beirut, to gun-running into the United States.
Book Synopsis The Fearful Void by : Geoffrey Moorhouse
Download or read book The Fearful Void written by Geoffrey Moorhouse and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey before . . .' In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. His reason for undertaking such an immense feat was to examine the roots of his fear, to explore an extremity of human experience. From the outset misfortune was never far away; and as he moved further into that 'awful emptiness' the physical and mental deprivation grew more intense. In March 1973, having walked the last 300 miles, Moorhouse, ill and exhausted, reached Tamanrasset, where he decided to end his journey. The Fearful Void is the moving record of his struggle with fear and loneliness and, ultimately, his coming to terms with the spiritual as well as the physical dangers of the desert.
