Download or read book The House of the Four Winds written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The House of the Four Winds" is a 1935 adventure novel by the Scottish novelist John Buchan. It is set in the fictional European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s, and explores the influence of some Scottish visitors in the toppling of a corrupt government - and the reinstatement of a monarchy. This text is a must-read for anyone who has enjoyed its prequel, "Castle Gay", or any of Buchan's writing, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. The chapters of this book include: 'The Man with the Elephant', 'The House of the Four Winds', 'Diversions of a Marionette', 'Difficulties as a Revolutionary', 'Surprising Energy of a Convalescent', 'Arrivals at an Inn', 'Splendide Mendax', 'Night in the Woods', etcetera. Many texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Download or read book Circles In A Forest written by Dalene Matthee and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Barnard is a man with a self-imposed mission - to halt the wanton destruction of the Knysna Forest, home of wild elephants and the fiercely independent families of woodcutters. For years he has protected the forest from intruders, and has developed a mystical kinship with the spirit of Old Foot, the majestic and indomitable bull elephant. When word goes round that Old Foot is on the rampage, Saul is propelled towards a terrible confrontation that will change his future for ever.

Download or read book Of Warriors Lovers and Prophets written by Max du Preez and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African history will never be the same again ... Shunning the predictable, Max du Preez has put on his investigative journalist’s cap and examined our past from a fresh perspective. The result is a collection of extraordinary and mostly unknown stories, all meticulously researched and written in an engaging and lively style. Instead of regurgitating the story of Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival at the Cape, he tells the tales of a Portuguese viscount killed on a Cape beach in 1510, of the Khoikhoi chief who was kidnapped and taken to England in 1610, and of the saucy goings-on between slave women and their European settler lovers. There’s the story of King Moshoeshoe’s remarkable conduct when cannibals ate his beloved grandfather, and Shaka’s sexuality is explored via his relationship with his mother and the woman who loved him without ever touching him. Sidestepping the old clichés about the Anglo-Boer War, Du Preez recounts the story of an Afrikaner broedertwis - General Christiaan de Wet and his brother Piet, who joined the British forces and fought his own people. The reader is taken through every stage of our history, up to the story of apartheid South Africa’s nuclear bombs, and the secret dealings and intrigue during the negotiations leading up to the 1994 elections. This is South African history as you’ve never seen it before: a colourful mosaic of our rich heritage.

Download or read book My First Afrikaans Alphabets Picture Book with English Translations written by Earleen S. and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Afrikaans ? Learning Afrikaans can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Afrikaans Alphabets. Afrikaans Words. English Translations.

Download or read book This Life written by Karel Schoeman and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully written novel, by one of South Africa's most celebrated writers, has an almost hypnotic power that draws the reader into one woman's life. As a post-apartheid novel, This Life considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one family. In an elegiac narrator's tone, there is also a sense of compulsion in the narrator's attempts to understand the past and achieve reconciliation in the present. This Life is a powerful story partly of suffering and partly of reflection.

Download or read book The Afrikaans written by Nick Pirog and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping third book in the internationally bestselling Thomas Prescott series. Intimate in scale, but grandly outfitted, the luxury cruise liner The Afrikaans hosts no more than 208 pampered guests, among them; former FBI contract agent Thomas Prescott. When the ship is overtaken by African pirates who are demanding the U.S. send medical relief to a small Zulu village in South Africa, it's up to Prescott to keep the hostages alive. As the U.S. tries to figure out how to combat the terrorists' plot from the outside, World Health Organization doctor, Gina Brady, undertakes the impossible task of rescuing three children from the secluded Zulu village. With the deadline drawing near, Prescott and Brady must race against the clock to discover the truth; is it medical relief the pirates seek or a two billion dollar ransom from one of the richest men in the world? Or could the implications be so profound, and the stakes so high, a war hangs in the balance... Thomas Prescott series Book 1: Unforeseen Book 2: Gray Matter Book 3: The Afrikaans Book 4: Show Me Book 5: Jungle Up (Coming April 2021)

Download or read book Afrikaans Short Stories And Texts for Beginners written by Librenhaus and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 30 short stories suitable for readers at all levels, with a special focus on beginners. If you already know at least the basics, you'll be able to expand the vocabulary you're exposed to in this book. The texts are provided with English translations for quick vocabulary check! Those stories are relatively easy to read and understand and can expose you to a lot of new vocabulary and grammar structures. Their manageable length allows for concentrated reading, which improves concentration and comprehension. These stories take place in different locations and feature different characters. Within these stories, you'll be able to learn vocabulary from different spheres of everyday life, such as family, travel, and hobbies. The stories also cover linguistically challenging topics such as social issues, crime, love, and more, so there's something for everyone.

Download or read book Fiela s Child written by Dalene Matthee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him. "Everything a novel can be: convincing, thought-provoking, upsetting, unforgettable, and timeless."—Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman "Fiela's Child is a parade that broadens and humanizes our understanding of the conflicts still affecting South Africa today."—Francis Levy, New York Times Book Review "A powerful creation of time and place with dark threads of destiny and oppression and its roots in the almost Biblical soil of a storyteller's art."—Christopher Wordsworth, The Guardian "The characters in the novel live and breathe; and the landscape is so brightly painted that the trees, birds, elephants, and rivers of old South Africa are characters themselves. A book not to miss."—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories written by Denis Hirson and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the National Party was on the upsurge, to the early 1990s when the legal framework of apartheid was abolished, the ANC was legalized and Mandela was released.

Download or read book Agaat written by Marlene VanNiekerk and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise - young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla's family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

Download or read book The Alphabet of Birds written by S J Naudé and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Cool and intelligent, unsettling and deeply felt, Naudé’s voice is something new in South African writing.’ – Damon Galgut From an ancient castle in Bavaria and a pre-War villa in Milan, to a winter landscape in Lesotho and the suburban streets of Pretoria, the stories in The Alphabet of Birds take an acute look at South Africans at home and abroad. In one story, a strange, cheerful Japanese man visits a young South African as he takes care of his dying mother; in another, a woman battles corrupt bureaucracy in the Eastern Cape. A man trails his lover through the underground dance clubs of Berlin, while in London a young banker moves through layers of decadence as a soul would through purgatory. Pulsating with passion, loss, and melancholia, S J Naudé’s collection The Alphabet of Birds is filled with music, art, architecture, myth, the search for origins and the shifing relationships between people.

Download or read book Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.

Download or read book Die Avonture van die Twee Kabouters written by Rina Delport and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about two friends (elfs) who are living with a Small Community of elves in the woods. These two are very naughty like any boy their age (13-14 years). They like to play pranks on children. They decided to look for the dangerous Dragon their parents warned them about. So they set out for the adventure of a lifetime. They came across lots of dangerous animals. They came face to face with the Dragon, who have only one thing in his mind a meal ticket. So their parents then went looking for the two and overpowered the Dragon with all the strength they had left. These two learned a very big lesson in life. Moral of the story, they decided to behave and never to be disobedient to their parents.

Download or read book My First Stories in Afrikaans written by Abdo_editions and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Compilation of 30 Short Stories offers a rich tapestry of diverse narratives designed to captivate and inspire readers of varying levels of knowledge. From enchanting fantasies to enigmatic mysteries, each tale offers a unique opportunity to explore different genres and writing styles.Whether you are taking your first steps into the world of literature or looking to expand your literary horizons, this anthology promises something captivating for every reader. Each story is precisely crafted to provide a balance of accessibility and excitement, ensuring an enriching experience that promotes vocabulary growth and comprehension.Through themes of adventure, romance, science fiction and horror, Travels in Literature invites readers to embark on a literary odyssey full of unexpected twists and unforgettable characters. Ideal for cozy evenings with a book or for stimulating book club conversations, this collection guarantees hours of entertainment and enlightenment for readers of all ages and backgrounds.

Download or read book Fools Gold written by Arja Salafranca and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of selected short stories, all of which were previously published in an individual writers collection or in either Stray or The Bed Book of Short Stories published by Modjaji Books. The authors include Sarah Lotz (internationally best selling author), Lauri Kubuitsile, Makhosazana Xaba, Meg Vandermerwe, Arja Salafranca, Wame Molefhe, Jolyn Phillips, Melissa de Villiers, Sandra Hill, Reneilwe Malatji, Jayne Bauling, Jo-Ann Bekker, Julia Martin, Isabella Morris, Alex Smith, Isabella Morris and Colleen Higgs. Several of the authors went on to win awards for their collections, see below, and one of the stories was shortlisted for the Caine Prize. Modjaji has a proud history of publishing debut short story collections that are successful in literary and sales terms. There are few other publishers who take the risk of publishing debut short story collections.

Download or read book Transitions written by Craig MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Day the Dragon Came written by Fanie Viljoen and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: