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The Colony of Good Hope

Author : Kim Leine
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529014360
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Colony of Good Hope written by Kim Leine and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb novel . . . A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year In the tradition of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light. 1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the hopes of exploiting the country’s allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a blacksmith, some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily married couples go with him. The missionary priest Hans Egede has already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists arrive. He has established a mission there, but the converts are few. Among those most hostile to Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq, whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men, and two ways of life, is born. The newly arrived couples – men and women plucked from prison – quickly sink into a life of almost complete dissolution, and soon unsanitary conditions, illness and death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the epidemics that beset the colony, Egede remains steadfast in his determination – willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the sake of his mission. Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Kim Leine's The Colony of Good Hope explores what happens when two cultures confront one another. In a distant colony, under the harshest conditions, the overwhelming forces of nature meet the vices of man.

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

Author : Kim Leine
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857897926
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Prophets of Eternal Fjord written by Kim Leine and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous, strange, dark-edged novel that has garlanded critical acclaim throughout Europe and won the prestigious Nordic Council's Literature Prize. Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. A rugged outpost battered by harsh winters, Sukkertoppen is overshadowed by the threat of dissent; natives from neighboring villages have united to reject Danish rule and establish their own settlement atop Eternal Fjord. As Falck becomes involved with those in his care-his ambitious catechist, a lonely trader's wife, and a fatalistic widow he comes to love-his faith and reputation are dangerously called into question.

To the Fairest Cape

Author : Malcolm Jack
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684480000
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book To the Fairest Cape written by Malcolm Jack and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Orphan of Good Hope, The

Author : Roxane Dhand
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 014378966X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Orphan of Good Hope, The written by Roxane Dhand and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1683 life is gruelling for the young women in Amsterdam's civic orphanage. The sole light in Johanna Timmerman's existence is her forbidden love for Frans, an orphan in the boys' section who has a smile like sunshine. Then he is gone, whisked across the globe to the Dutch East India Company's nascent colony at Good Hope. Floriane Peronneau's privileged world is pleasant and fulfilling until she discovers that it is all built on lies. Far from being the devoted gentleman he seems, her husband Claes is a womanizing degenerate who has led them to the edge of ruin. And the forces are closing in on him. While Johanna's love drives her to make a shocking bargain to secure passage to the Cape, Floriane is caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse. The two women's lives could not be more different. Yet, on the long, dangerous voyage to the southern tip of Africa, they will become the best of friends - and co-conspirators . . ."--Publisher.

An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798

Author : Sir John Barrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798 written by Sir John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope from its discovery to the year 1819

Author : A. Wilmot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book History of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope from its discovery to the year 1819 written by A. Wilmot and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope from Its Discovery to the Year 1819

Author : Alexander Wilmot
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290899604
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope from Its Discovery to the Year 1819 written by Alexander Wilmot and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Census of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope

Author : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Colonial Secretary's Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Census of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope written by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Colonial Secretary's Department and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

South Africa a Century Ago

Author : Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book South Africa a Century Ago written by Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Old Towns and Villages of the Cape

Author : Hans Fransen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Towns and Villages of the Cape written by Hans Fransen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Towns and Villages of the Cape is the first comprehensive study of the physical history of the older towns of the former Cape Colony . It contains over seven hundred illustrations, including hundreds of previously unpublished pioneer photographs and early watercolors. Many detailed aerial photographs, few of them ever seen in print, some dating back to the 1930s, allow the reader to step back in time and view the original towns before modern developments brought about irrevocable changes in the townscape.Covering almost one hundred towns, villages and hamlets, Old Towns and Villages of the Cape not only examines the role of surveyors, and other factors, in their initial layout and subsequent growth, but also describes the formation of new drostdy districts, new Dutch Reformed church congregations, boeredorpe, harbor settlements and mission towns. Hans Fransen applies his extensive knowledge and insight to present the information, research and insights, most of it previously unpublished, in a very readable and accessible style. With its rich pictorial component, this invaluable reference book it is as attractive as it is informative and fits as well on a coffee table as it would in a collector s library.

Good Hope

Author : Martine Gosselink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789460043130
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Good Hope written by Martine Gosselink and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan van Riebeecks arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africas problems: these words were spoken in 2015 by Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa. Soon afterwards, a spate of iconoclastic attacks took place on statues of Van Riebeeck, Paul Kruger and Boer heroes. Only now, it seems, more than two decades after the abolition of apartheid, is South-Africa fully severing its colonial umbilical cord. The time has clearly come to look afresh at the historical links between the Netherlands and South Africa, a country whose born-frees the generation born in the post-apartheid era are just as likely to be critical of Nelson Mandelas liberation party the ANC as they are of their former colonial rulers. Good Hope explores what took place between 1652, when Van Riebeeck landed at the Cape, and Mandelas visit to Amsterdam in 1990. The arrival of the Dutch in South Africa cast its original inhabitants adrift. The VOC introduced slavery to the Cape and brought Islam when it banished disaffected Muslims there from Asian colonies such Java and Makassar. Borders shifted and whole populations moved away, disintegrated or assimilated into other groups. South Africa has also changed the Netherlands, as witnessed by the blossoming of Amsterdams diamond industry, the many streets across the country named after Afrikaner heroes, and the fierce anti-apartheid struggle. Martine Gosselink, head of the Rijksmuseum History Department, conceived Good Hope and curated the exhibition with Maria Holtrop, Daniel Horst and Duncan Bull. This book was published in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum as part of the Country Series. This volume is also the catalogue for the Good Hope exhibition, and includes contributions by, amongst others: Adriaan van Dis, Marlene Dumas, Bas Kromhout, Maria Holtrop, Duncan Bull.

The Colony

Author : Audrey Magee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374606536
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Colony written by Audrey Magee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “Luminous.” —Jonathan Myerson, The Guardian “Vivid, thought-provoking.” —Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders. It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by currach, though boats with engines are available and he doesn’t much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create. He doesn’t know that a Frenchman follows close behind. Jean-Pierre Masson has visited the island for many years, studying the language of those who make it their home. He is fiercely protective of their isolation, deems it essential to exploring his theories of language preservation and identity. But the people who live on this rock—three miles long and half a mile wide—have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken, and what ought to be given in return. Over the summer, each of them—from great-grandmother Bean Uí Fhloinn, to widowed Mairéad, to fifteen-year-old James, who is determined to avoid the life of a fisherman—will wrestle with their values and desires. Meanwhile, all over Ireland, violence is erupting. And there is blame enough to go around. An expertly woven portrait of character and place, a stirring investigation into yearning to find one’s way, and an unflinchingly political critique of the long, seething cost of imperialism, Audrey Magee’s The Colony is a novel that transports, that celebrates beauty and connection, and that reckons with the inevitable ruptures of independence.

History of Cartography

Author : Elri Liebenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364219088X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book History of Cartography written by Elri Liebenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography. The nineteen papers reflect the research interests of the Commission which span the period from the Enlightenment to the evolution of Geographical Information Science. Apart from studies on general cartography, the volume, which reflects some co-operation with the ICA Commission on Maps and Society and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), contains regional studies on cartographic endeavours in Northern America, Brazil, and Southern Africa. The ICA Commission on Maps and Society participated as its field of study often overlaps with that of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography. The USGS which is the official USA mapping organisation, was invited to emphasise that the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography is not only interested in historical maps, but also has as mandate the research and document the history of Geographical Information Science. The ICA Commission on Maps and Society participated as its field of study often overlaps with that of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography. The USGS which is the official USA mapping organisation, was invited to emphasise that the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography is not only interested in historical maps, but also has as mandate the research and document the history of Geographical Information Science.

Results of a Census of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Taken on the Night of Sunday, the 7th March, 1875

Author : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Colonial Secretary's Dept
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book Results of a Census of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Taken on the Night of Sunday, the 7th March, 1875 written by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Colonial Secretary's Dept and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from Its Discovery to the Year ... L868

Author : Alexander Wilmot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from Its Discovery to the Year ... L868 written by Alexander Wilmot and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. from Its Discovery to the Year 1819

Author : Alexander Wilmot
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346200767
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. from Its Discovery to the Year 1819 written by Alexander Wilmot and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Universal Exhibition, 1855, Colony of the Cape of Good Hope

Author : Cape of Good Hope. General committee instituted for the Universal exhibition of 1855
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Universal Exhibition, 1855, Colony of the Cape of Good Hope written by Cape of Good Hope. General committee instituted for the Universal exhibition of 1855 and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: